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Dave 🥓 @dabacon

Gone skiing No longer here, try https://t.co/FMZGaEvVsM or @[email protected] "There is enough room in the unknown to absorb our dreams, so let us make them." dabacon.org Seattle, WA USA Joined February 2008
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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

2 years ago

I wrote a little semi-popular account of the Bell inequalities say here: michaelnielsen.org/blog/why-the-w… Just a little high school mathematics is need to understand the core ideas.

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

2 years ago

This paragraph is fascinating, & I've reread it multiple times. The conclusions seem rather repugnant. I've often wondered at the alienating effect of big science on individuals, & this seems like an example of alienating forces (Not a critique of the paper, quite the reverse!)

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

2 years ago

The Schroedinger equation is a linear matrix equation, i d psi / dt = H psi. The solution isn't quite a series of multiplications - you need additions too! If matrix addition and multiplication can't support sentience, then you've just "proved" human beings aren't sentient.

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Dirk Hovy @dirk_hovy

2 years ago

The Schroedinger equation is a linear matrix equation, i d psi / dt = H psi. The solution isn't quite a series of multiplications - you need additions too! If matrix addition and multiplication can't support sentience, then you've just "proved" human beings aren't sentient.

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

2 years ago

What are the most beautiful titles you know? A few I love: "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" (Richard Brautigan) "The Peace of Wild Things" (Wendell Berry) "The Language Instinct" (Stephen Pinker) "Desert Solitaire" (Edward Abbey)

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

2 years ago

I enjoyed this interview with Dorit Aharonov: medium.com/qiskit/why-thi… (by @Liv_Lanes & Robert Davis)

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

2 years ago

In general, it's very striking: society.robinsloan.com/archive/notes-…

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

2 years ago

This entire thread is very, very good, on the impact of machine learning & business models & social media on culture. See also: simondedeo.com/?p=705 First we train our machines, then they train us.

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jonstokes.(eth|com) @jonst0kes

3 years ago

This entire thread is very, very good, on the impact of machine learning & business models & social media on culture. See also: simondedeo.com/?p=705 First we train our machines, then they train us.

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

3 years ago

I believe this is John Wheeler's original "It from bit" paper. Anything earlier? philpapers.org/archive/WHEIPQ…

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Pratiti @PratitiTiyas

4 years ago

Mari Kondo show but for experimental physics labs only!

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

4 years ago

I didn't know this - Starry Night apparently was inspired in part by a line in Hugo's "Les Miserables", "lighted like a lamp in the center of the starry night, expanding his soul in ecstasy in the universal radiance of creation".

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Untold Van Gogh @willemish

4 years ago

I didn't know this - Starry Night apparently was inspired in part by a line in Hugo's "Les Miserables", "lighted like a lamp in the center of the starry night, expanding his soul in ecstasy in the universal radiance of creation". https://t.co/WbmiVfNiHs

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

4 years ago

The genetic code is redundant in many interesting ways: for instance, 64 different codons are used to code (redundantly) for 20 different amino acids. Last year, a group actually removed some of this redundancy in E. coli(!) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

4 years ago

@dabacon I love that this is true for fundamental reasons! "If you could see me, I would be destroyed. So I hide, invisible, to do my computation. And only if you look at the complete totality can you find me." Which sounds like mysticism, but is literally what is happening...

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

4 years ago

MIT has ended its contract with Elsevier: news.mit.edu/2020/guided-by…

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Sarah Cooper @sarahcpr

4 years ago

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