Percy Deift

Apr 19, 2023 | quillette.com | Aidan Harte |Percy Deift |Svetlana Jitomirskaya |Sergiu Klainerman

Artificial Intelligence, the Holy Grail of Computing, has received a good deal of advance hype in recent months, and the Extremely Online are extremely perturbed. In particular, ChatGPT, a programme which answers questions in coherent sentences, has the digital literati looking more pasty than usual. The Terminator is coming for tech jobs. Silicon Valley’s worker bees, who were sanguine about automation making redneck truckers redundant, are starting to panic.

Apr 5, 2023 | quillette.com | Joshua Kurlantzick |Percy Deift |Svetlana Jitomirskaya |Sergiu Klainerman

In many parts of the world, China is increasing its efforts to control groups and individuals connected to civil society, politics, and universities.

Mar 28, 2023 | quillette.com | Oliver Traldi |Percy Deift |Svetlana Jitomirskaya |Sergiu Klainerman

Should science be political? It is often imagined that debates around this sort of question turn on abstruse theoretical matters. What does it mean to be political? And is it even possible to avoid it? Aren’t scientists’ choices about what to study and research ineluctably political? And wouldn’t it require a kind of intentional naivety to pretend that scientific results aren’t employed in public discourse in distinctly political ways?

Mar 17, 2023 | quillette.com | Stephen Akey |Percy Deift |Svetlana Jitomirskaya |Sergiu Klainerman

Gary Brodsky taught philosophy at the University of Connecticut from 1963 to 1997. In the spring semester of 1976, I enrolled in his Problems of Philosophy survey course. By his lights, I was probably just another ignorant, unwashed American plebe, whose cultural consciousness (to the extent that I had any) had been formed by the twin vapidities of television and rock and roll music. Which was pretty much true.

Mar 13, 2023 | quillette.com | Anthony F Jorm |Percy Deift |Svetlana Jitomirskaya |Sergiu Klainerman

In Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the major source of funding for health and medical research. In a previous article for Quillette, I have described how the current CEO of the organization, Anne Kelso, has pursued a policy of gender equity in the allocation of research grants, with the aim of increasing the number of successful female applicants through the use of quotas.