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When reading popular books in a field I'm often uncertain how to treat the evidence. I'm reading Haidt's "The Righteous Mind". Fascinating, and much agrees with my prejudices. But I

Curious, trying out some different systems for organizing research materials. I will try: paper notebooks, Scrivener, Google Docs, Notion, Roam, Evernote, Dropbox Paper. What other systems should I try out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-euUGPQZoHw&ab_channel=ViralMEDIA I rewatched "Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse" recently.I enjoyed it, in a popcorn kinda way, the first time. It was much better the second time - I was so much

Favourite magic:Asi Wind:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg0CC99hVK8&ab_channel=AsiWind Sean Farquhar with an astonishing old school card trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRpz0zuAGVs&t=223s&ab_channel=frankflymanThe look o

What would be some excellent readings for a class on "The Future of Matter"? Kitaev on "Anyons in an Exactly Solvable Model and Beyond": https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0506438.pdf . @FrankWilczek on "Quantum Mechani

Imagine you're a designer or mathematician living in ancient Rome. Being a curious & imaginative sort, used to exploring wild ideas, you ask yourself: is there some way you can

Live action shot of GPT-3: Excuse me, a typo in my initial tweet. I meant: a live action shot of SHRDLU, from 1970: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU GPT-3 is wonderful,

Just dug up one of my favourite papers, one I haven't looked at in years! Richard Feynman's paper trying to make sense of negative probabilities: http://cds.cern.ch/record/154856/files/pre-27827.pdf?version=1 This might sound nuts.

Had some fun this afternoon re-analyzing the circuit for quantum teleportation. Here's a proof I found that the circuit works.The circuit to be verified: top two qubits are Alice's, including

"Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians...the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with

For people interested in open science, Paul David's paper is, I think, the best piece ever written about how science came to be as open as it is: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2209188> Odd,

What are your favourite tweet-length mathematical proofs?Here's a couple of mine. Infinitude of primes: suppose there are only finitely many, p1, p2...pn. Take the product & add 1 to define