Quantum Amplitude Estimation for Catastrophe Insurance Tail-Risk Pricing: Empirical Convergence and NISQ Noise Analysis Classical Monte Carlo methods for pricing catastrophe insurance tail risk converge at order reciprocal root N, requiring large simulation budgets to resolve upper-tail percentiles of the loss distribution. This sample-sparsity problem can lead to AI models trained on impoverished tail data, …

Alexis’ story (which was shortlisted by the BBC for broadcast in 2025), is now available as a Kindle Book – “The Last Human Cock on OnlyFans” – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GLRZLH7C

Sick of keys, queries and other cliched metaphors? The most difficult part of the Transformer architecture to get an intuitive understanding of is self-attention. If I have to read another article on self-attention that explains about keys, queries and values – I will projectile vomit. Sorry, but it’s true. So here’s my attempt to explains …

I wrote the article on AI and writing for the BBC Writers website blog a year or so ago. I wanted to update any interested people on why I’ve still been avoiding AI for my screenwriting and other creative writing. I worry that newer writers like myself are the most vulnerable to giving in to …

As a screenwriter or story writer, the hardest thing is the rewrite process. You must be able to read your story or screenplay as if you’ve never seen it before. This can seem impossible and overwhelming, but there are methods that can help. Beware the paragraph becoming a symbol. When you read a sentence or …

Grokipedia goes much more deeply into Alexis’ past than Wikipedia. Some accuracy issues, but some impressive data mining as well! https://grokipedia.com/page/alexis_kirke

Alexis was invited to speak at Voices Berlin at an event called “AI TAKES THE STAGE”. https://voices.berlin/en/event/ai-takes-the-stage The resulting video is available here:

A project Alexis initiated, and for which he rasied $2.5m, has been published in Frontiers in Psychology: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1627466/full

Alexis’ short play FIRST SITE will be performed at the highly-regard Platform at the Bread and Roses Theatre in Clapham, London on 6th April 2025. ★★★★ “One to watch and keep on watching” – Remotegoat on The Platform“one of the strongest short work platforms in  London” – Onomatopoeia on The Platform FIRST SITE by Alexis Kirke “When Maia waits …