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Dr Claire Malone PhD
@geeknproud42.bsky.social
TEDTalks keynote speaker, columnist for Physics World and others #physicist CERN, investigative #journalist, #STEM, #scicomm #novelist
Yes, if not used correctly.
October 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
And a technology that is giving people with disabilities more freedom than ever before!
October 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Disabled learners don’t lack intuition. We just build it differently.
And that different perspective? It’s not a limitation—it’s a strength.
Let’s rethink what “intuitive learning” really means.
Because there are many ways to reach understanding—and every one of them counts
August 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
So despite being good at maths, I never felt why base ten was “natural.” Because for me, it wasn’t.
It’s such a perfect example of how “common sense” in learning often rests on physical experience—and how that experience isn’t universal.
August 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Today, while reading a computer science book, I found the answer:
👉 We use base ten because humans have ten fingers.
It seems obvious now. But here’s the twist: I’ve never counted on my fingers. Ever.
As someone with a physical disability, finger-counting just wasn’t how I learned numbers.
August 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I’ve always wondered: why do we use base ten in maths? Wouldn’t a base like eight be more efficient? It has more factors, after all! Today, while reading a computer science book, I found the answer:
👉 We use base ten because humans have ten fingers.
August 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What happens when we let frontier models rewrite the “truth” based on the values of a few labs? As Elon Musk recently suggested: “We will use Grok 3.5... to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge.”
This is more than a technical question. It’s a societal one.

#AIethics #AIalignment #TechPolicy
July 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM

Felicity Hammond’s “V3: Model Collapse” draws striking parallels between geological mining and data mining—asking what happens when AI-generated images are reinserted into it. How does the machine interpret this feedback loop? And can it be corrupted by its own outputs?
July 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Stay tuned for more updates and information about the release date for the course on the effective use of AI.

#PerplexityAI #Teaching #AIResearchTools #Search #AI
July 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Imagine my surprise when Perplexity AI cited my very own talk at the Royal Institution on the anatomy of a particle detector I gave last year. When you've been cited by an AI, you know you've made it, right?
July 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Thank you, Paul. There is a lot more I wish to say in that vain, so I hope that this will be the start of the conversation. How are you? I am looking forward to getting back to the documentary soon.
June 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM