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symmetry magazine
From life experience to research experience A former retail worker finds the confidence to pursue a career in STEM thanks to an internship...
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From life experience to research experience

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A former retail worker finds the confidence to pursue a career in STEM thanks to an internship program designed for students at small colleges.
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From the LHC to the search for exoplanets A scientist tried using machine-learning techniques from particle physics to analyze data from...
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From the LHC to the search for exoplanets

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A scientist tried using machine-learning techniques from particle physics to analyze data from astronomy—and in the process discovered a new exoplanet.
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Scientists design program for the future of US particle physics research In the culmination of a US community planning process that began in late 2020, the High Energy...
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Scientists design program for the future of US particle physics research

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In the culmination of a US community planning process that began in late 2020, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has approved the recommendations of the P5 Report.
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LHC physicists can’t save them all As upgrades enable the LHC to produce more and more particle collisions, physicists are using...
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LHC physicists can’t save them all

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As upgrades enable the LHC to produce more and more particle collisions, physicists are using machine learning to keep up with the growing task of sorting through everything.
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The theoretical work of preparing for DUNE To evaluate the data produced by the DUNE experiment, phenomenologists must make precise predictions...
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The theoretical work of preparing for DUNE

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To evaluate the data produced by the DUNE experiment, phenomenologists must make precise predictions for what they expect that data to look like.
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LIGO comes to India In India, scientists are building a new LIGO detector, enhancing the capabilities of the observatory...
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LIGO comes to India

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In India, scientists are building a new LIGO detector, enhancing the capabilities of the observatory that reported the first observation of gravitational waves.
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A day in the life of a mountaintop telescope builder Margaux Lopez is one of a team of engineers preparing the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile for the...
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A day in the life of a mountaintop telescope builder

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Margaux Lopez is one of a team of engineers preparing the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile for the arrival of the largest digital camera ever built for astrophysics and cosmology.
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What’s so hard about measuring the strong force? The ATLAS collaboration recently measured the strength of the strong force to a record level of...
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What’s so hard about measuring the strong force?

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The ATLAS collaboration recently measured the strength of the strong force to a record level of precision, but there’s still long way to go toward understanding this fundamental force.
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Preventing magnet meltdowns before they can start Berkeley Lab researchers are developing an approach to avoid sudden, potentially destructive energy...
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Preventing magnet meltdowns before they can start

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Berkeley Lab researchers are developing an approach to avoid sudden, potentially destructive energy releases in a new generation of superconducting magnets.
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PIP-II team transports first cryomodule between UK and Fermilab The United Kingdom will eventually contribute three assembled cryomodules—known as HB650 for the...
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PIP-II team transports first cryomodule between UK and Fermilab

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The United Kingdom will eventually contribute three assembled cryomodules—known as HB650 for the radio frequency they use to operate—to Fermilab’s new particle accelerator.
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A collaborative ecosystem Physicists work with computer scientists in academia and industry to advance machine learning.
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A collaborative ecosystem

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Physicists work with computer scientists in academia and industry to advance machine learning.
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Excavation of colossal caverns for Fermilab’s DUNE experiment completed The excavation of the caverns that will house the gigantic particle detectors of the Deep...
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Excavation of colossal caverns for Fermilab’s DUNE experiment completed

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The excavation of the caverns that will house the gigantic particle detectors of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in Lead, South Dakota, is complete.
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symmetry magazine
Final supernova results from Dark Energy Survey offer unique insights
into the expansion of the... In the culmination of a decade’s worth of effort, the DES collaboration of scientists analyzed an...
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Final supernova results from Dark Energy Survey offer unique insights
into the expansion of the universe

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In the culmination of a decade’s worth of effort, the DES collaboration of scientists analyzed an unprecedented sample of more than 1,500 supernovae classified using machine learning.
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Machine learning and experiment For more than 20 years in experimental particle physics and astrophysics, machine learning has been...
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Machine learning and experiment

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For more than 20 years in experimental particle physics and astrophysics, machine learning has been accelerating the pace of science, helping scientists tackle problems of greater and greater complexity.
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LSST Camera arrives at Rubin Observatory in Chile The largest camera ever built for astrophysics has completed the long journey from SLAC National...
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LSST Camera arrives at Rubin Observatory in Chile

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The largest camera ever built for astrophysics has completed the long journey from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California to the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile.
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Can we fit the universe in a box? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a computer answer all of the biggest questions in the universe?
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Can we fit the universe in a box?

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Wouldn’t it be nice to have a computer answer all of the biggest questions in the universe?
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What is the electroweak force? Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are two distinct fundamental forces. That wasn’t always...
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What is the electroweak force?

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Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are two distinct fundamental forces. That wasn’t always the case.
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Bringing eclipsed women of astronomy and physics into the light In , physicist Shohini Ghose elucidates the stories of women scientists who contributed to and led...
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Bringing eclipsed women of astronomy and physics into the light

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In , physicist Shohini Ghose elucidates the stories of women scientists who contributed to and led some of the biggest breakthroughs in astronomy and physics.Her Space, Her Time
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A physicists’ guide to the ethics of artificial intelligence Physics may seem like its own world, but different sectors using machine learning are all part of...
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A physicists’ guide to the ethics of artificial intelligence

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Physics may seem like its own world, but different sectors using machine learning are all part of the same universe.
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First results from DESI make the most precise measurement of our expanding universe With just its first year of data, DESI has surpassed all previous 3D spectroscopic maps combined and...
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First results from DESI make the most precise measurement of our expanding universe

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With just its first year of data, DESI has surpassed all previous 3D spectroscopic maps combined and confirmed the basics of our best model of the universe.
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Physics vocabulary: AI edition Don’t know your convolutional neural networks from your boosted decision trees? is here to...
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Physics vocabulary: AI edition

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Don’t know your convolutional neural networks from your boosted decision trees? is here to help.Symmetry
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A trio of paths toward the discovery machine of the future An advisory committee recommends the US work to advance three key areas of emerging accelerator...
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A trio of paths toward the discovery machine of the future

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An advisory committee recommends the US work to advance three key areas of emerging accelerator technology.
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John Bahcall: Godfather of solar neutrinos Bahcall’s scientific legacy is visible across the field of astrophysics
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John Bahcall: Godfather of solar neutrinos

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Bahcall’s scientific legacy is visible across the field of astrophysics
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Tomorrow’s physics test: machine learning Machine learning is becoming an essential part of a physicist’s toolkit. How should new students...
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Tomorrow’s physics test: machine learning

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Machine learning is becoming an essential part of a physicist’s toolkit. How should new students learn to use it?
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Symmetry’s guide to AI in particle physics and astrophysics In the coming weeks, will explore the ways scientists are using artificial intelligence to advance...
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Symmetry’s guide to AI in particle physics and astrophysics

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In the coming weeks, will explore the ways scientists are using artificial intelligence to advance particle physics and astrophysics—in a series of articles written and illustrated entirely by humans.Symmetry
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Scientists measure entanglement at the LHC Scientists on the ATLAS collaboration performed the highest-energy measurement of quantum...
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Scientists measure entanglement at the LHC

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Scientists on the ATLAS collaboration performed the highest-energy measurement of quantum entanglement.
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The physicist gamer Raphael Granier De Cassagnac recently put his scientific skills to use creating a physics-themed...
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The physicist gamer

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Raphael Granier De Cassagnac recently put his scientific skills to use creating a physics-themed video game.
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Scaling up the dark matter search Physicists are preparing for the next generation of dark-matter experiments.
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Scaling up the dark matter search

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Physicists are preparing for the next generation of dark-matter experiments.
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CMS scientists expand search for new particles at the Large Hadron Collider CMS scientists are analyzing the first dataset gathered through a new tool designed to search for...
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CMS scientists expand search for new particles at the Large Hadron Collider

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CMS scientists are analyzing the first dataset gathered through a new tool designed to search for long-lived particles.
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The boson that physics almost rejected Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs died earlier this year. Twelve years ago this week, physicists discovered...
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The boson that physics almost rejected

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Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs died earlier this year. Twelve years ago this week, physicists discovered the particle that bears his name.
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Machine learning and theory Theoretical physicists use machine-learning algorithms to speed up difficult calculations and...
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Machine learning and theory

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Theoretical physicists use machine-learning algorithms to speed up difficult calculations and eliminate untenable theories—but could they transform what it means to make discoveries?
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Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions...
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Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD

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Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions about the behavior of quarks at low energies.
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AI for control rooms Scientists inside and outside of particle physics and astrophysics are leaning on AI for assistance...
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AI for control rooms

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Scientists inside and outside of particle physics and astrophysics are leaning on AI for assistance with complex tasks.
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‘This is our Muon Shot’ The US physics community dreams of building a muon collider.
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‘This is our Muon Shot’

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The US physics community dreams of building a muon collider.
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SLAC completes construction of the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy Once set in place atop a telescope in Chile, the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera will help researchers...
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SLAC completes construction of the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy

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Once set in place atop a telescope in Chile, the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera will help researchers better understand dark matter, dark energy and other mysteries of our universe.
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All Dams Are Temporary [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Lewis and Clark Lake, on the...
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All Dams Are Temporary

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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Lewis and Clark Lake, on the border between Nebraska and South Dakota, might not be a lake for much longer. Together with the dam that holds it back, the reservoir provides hydropower, flood control, and...
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Science fiction inspires a new astrophysics university class A professor at the University of Tennessee reimagines the way we teach STEM with a science-fiction...
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Science fiction inspires a new astrophysics university class

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A professor at the University of Tennessee reimagines the way we teach STEM with a science-fiction story-based class.
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Ears around the world are on The Coldest Case , a podcast released by the Interactions Collaboration, illuminates the international search for...
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Ears around the world are on The Coldest Case

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, a podcast released by the Interactions Collaboration, illuminates the international search for dark matter through conversations with its inquirers.Particle Mysteries
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A day in the life of a human-in-the-loop engineer Wan-Lin Hu’s job is to improve the way people and artificial intelligence collaborate to run SLAC’s...
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A day in the life of a human-in-the-loop engineer

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Wan-Lin Hu’s job is to improve the way people and artificial intelligence collaborate to run SLAC’s complex machines.
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The view from Neutrino Day 2024 About 2,200 people took part in hands-on science activities, performances, lectures and exhibits at...
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The view from Neutrino Day 2024

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About 2,200 people took part in hands-on science activities, performances, lectures and exhibits at Sanford Underground Research Facility's Neutrino Day celebration this year.
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A harsh environment for life, an ideal environment for research The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel recently recommended, among their top priorities...
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A harsh environment for life, an ideal environment for research

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The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel recently recommended, among their top priorities for the next decade, moving forward with two experiments based at the South Pole.
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DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab The prototype of a novel particle detection system for the international Deep Underground Neutrino...
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DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab

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The prototype of a novel particle detection system for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment successfully recorded its first accelerator neutrinos.
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The adaptable physicist Edgar Marrufo Villalpando went from Mexico to the United States and from computational physics to...
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The adaptable physicist

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Edgar Marrufo Villalpando went from Mexico to the United States and from computational physics to astronomical instrumentation to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a physicist.
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Explain it in 60 seconds: W boson Meet the short-lived particle that helps the sun shine.
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Explain it in 60 seconds: W boson

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Meet the short-lived particle that helps the sun shine.
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Uncharted...
What Asian Development Can Teach the World The Magic Development of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and China, and What That Tells Us about US...
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What Asian Development Can Teach the World

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The Magic Development of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and China, and What That Tells Us about US Tariffs, China’s Future, EU Protectionism, Japan’s Zombie Debt, Argentina’s Arrested Development, and more
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New results from the CMS experiment put W boson mass mystery to rest Physicists on the CMS experiment announce the most elaborate mass measurement of a particle that has...
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New results from the CMS experiment put W boson mass mystery to rest

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Physicists on the CMS experiment announce the most elaborate mass measurement of a particle that has captivated the physics community for decades.
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Students become scientists on International Cosmic Day Every November, students, teachers and scientists worldwide gather virtually to learn about Earth’s...
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Students become scientists on International Cosmic Day

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Every November, students, teachers and scientists worldwide gather virtually to learn about Earth’s cosmic visitors.
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LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on...
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LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter

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New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe’s invisible mass.
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Physics beyond the imaginable The CMS experiment is developing a new type of trigger that looks for anomalies.
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Physics beyond the imaginable

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The CMS experiment is developing a new type of trigger that looks for anomalies.
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New DESI results weigh in on gravity Researchers used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to map how nearly 6 million galaxies...
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New DESI results weigh in on gravity

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Researchers used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to map how nearly 6 million galaxies cluster across 11 billion years of cosmic history.
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US physicists prioritize closer study of the Higgs Physicists in the United States support the development of an off-shore Higgs Factory.
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US physicists prioritize closer study of the Higgs

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Physicists in the United States support the development of an off-shore Higgs Factory.
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Explain it in 60 Seconds: Quantum entanglement The CMS and ATLAS experiments recently detected quantum entanglement between top quarks in...
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Explain it in 60 Seconds: Quantum entanglement

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The CMS and ATLAS experiments recently detected quantum entanglement between top quarks in high-energy collisions at the LHC. What does that mean?
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Breck's Blog
Why Define a New Language?
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Why Define a New Language?

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Casey Handmer's blog
California’s path to redemption California is by far the richest and most powerful polity led by Progressive ideals, and it has...
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California’s path to redemption

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California is by far the richest and most powerful polity led by Progressive ideals, and it has taken a beating of late. In this post, I discuss a practical roadmap by which California must reclaim its mantle as the shining city on the hill, an embodiment of the positive...
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What does it mean to create a topological qubit? I’ve worked on topological quantum computation, one of Alexei Kitaev’s brilliant innovations, for...
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What does it mean to create a topological qubit?

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I’ve worked on topological quantum computation, one of Alexei Kitaev’s brilliant innovations, for around 15 years now.  It’s hard to find a more beautiful physics problem, combining spectacular quantum phenomena (non-Abelian anyons) with the promise of transformative...
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Why Scroll?

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Are AIs People? Every year, AI models get better at thinking. Could they possibly be capable of feeling? And if they...
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Are AIs People?

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Every year, AI models get better at thinking. Could they possibly be capable of feeling? And if they are, how would we know?
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A first-person view of physics history Michael Riordan has spent decades ruminating on the history of physics, including events he...
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A first-person view of physics history

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Michael Riordan has spent decades ruminating on the history of physics, including events he participated in himself.
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Getting Healthcare Data To Train An AI Model - with Protege | Out-Of-Pocket And all the different ways you can “train” a model
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Getting Healthcare Data To Train An AI Model - with Protege | Out-Of-Pocket

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And all the different ways you can “train” a model
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New CERN course teaches particle physics basics online The 16-part course, currently in its pilot phase, is catered to high school students but available...
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New CERN course teaches particle physics basics online

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The 16-part course, currently in its pilot phase, is catered to high school students but available to anyone interested in learning about the fundamental questions in particle physics.
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The New TIGR-Tas Gene Editing System Remember CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) – that new gene-editing...
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The New TIGR-Tas Gene Editing System

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Remember CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) – that new gene-editing system which is faster and cheaper than anything that came before it? CRISPR is derived from bacterial systems which uses guide RNA to target a specific sequence on a DNA strand....
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Some updates on the NSF and related issues Non-blog life has been very busy, and events have been changing rapidly, but I thought it would be a...
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Some updates on the NSF and related issues

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Non-blog life has been very busy, and events have been changing rapidly, but I thought it would be a good idea to give a brief bulleted list of updates regarding the NSF and associated issues: A court decision regarding who has the authority to fire probationary federal workers...
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Antimatter on wheels Writer Chetna Krishna follows CERN’s “coolest” transport, a test of a system to ship stored...
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Antimatter on wheels

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Writer Chetna Krishna follows CERN’s “coolest” transport, a test of a system to ship stored antimatter across the continent.
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Why do we subsidize lies?
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Math Is Still...
Years After the Early Death of a Math Genius, Her Ideas Gain New Life A new proof extends the work of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, cementing her legacy as a pioneer of...
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Years After the Early Death of a Math Genius, Her Ideas Gain New Life

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A new proof extends the work of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, cementing her legacy as a pioneer of alien mathematical realms. The post Years After the Early Death of a Math Genius, Her Ideas Gain New Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Stem Cells for Parkinson’s Disease For my entire career as a neurologist, spanning three decades, I have been hearing about various...
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Stem Cells for Parkinson’s Disease

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For my entire career as a neurologist, spanning three decades, I have been hearing about various kinds of stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Now a Phase I clinical trial is under way studying the latest stem cell technology, autologous induced pluripotent stem cells,...
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Where Are All the Dwarf Planets? In 2006 (yes, it was that long ago – yikes) the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially...
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Where Are All the Dwarf Planets?

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In 2006 (yes, it was that long ago – yikes) the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially adopted the definition of dwarf planet – they are large enough for their gravity to pull themselves into a sphere, they orbit the sun and not another larger body, but they don’t...
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The Economy Explained

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Math Is Still...
A New, Chemical View of Ecosystems Rare and powerful compounds, known as keystone molecules, can build a web of invisible interactions...
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A New, Chemical View of Ecosystems

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Rare and powerful compounds, known as keystone molecules, can build a web of invisible interactions among species. The post A New, Chemical View of Ecosystems first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Debate: Should Medical Aid in Death Be Legal? | Out-Of-Pocket Oh boy, I’m nervous to wade into this conversation
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The Debate: Should Medical Aid in Death Be Legal? | Out-Of-Pocket

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Oh boy, I’m nervous to wade into this conversation
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What Percentage of the Brain Does What?
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What Percentage of the Brain Does What?

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Inverted Passion
Don’t compete The Internet is full of people winning all the time. Someone is traveling to exotic locations,...
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Don’t compete

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The Internet is full of people winning all the time. Someone is traveling to exotic locations, someone else is raising funds, and another person is winning awards. Essentially, everyone around you is succeeding while you do spend your days as the nature intended – sleeping,...
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On Focus
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Robotaxis Are Here Within 1-5 years, our daily transportation will be upended, and cities will be reshaped.
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Robotaxis Are Here

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Within 1-5 years, our daily transportation will be upended, and cities will be reshaped.
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symmetry magazine
Inside the search for dark matter About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk...
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Inside the search for dark matter

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About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence.
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Math Is Still...
‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally...
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‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability

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In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ordinary physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict, even in principle. The post ‘Next-Level’ Chaos...
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The Works in...
Flipping the switch on far-UVC We’ve known about far-UVC’s promise for a decade. Why isn't it everywhere?
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Flipping the switch on far-UVC

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We’ve known about far-UVC’s promise for a decade. Why isn't it everywhere?
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The 2025 Wolf Prize in Physics One nice bit of condensed matter/nanoscale physics news:  This year's Wolf Prize in Physics has gone...
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The 2025 Wolf Prize in Physics

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One nice bit of condensed matter/nanoscale physics news:  This year's Wolf Prize in Physics has gone to three outstanding scientists, Jim Eisenstein, Moty Heiblum, and Jainendra Jain, each of whom have done very impactful work involving 2D electron gases - systems of electrons...
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From sea to scientific sea Take a tour of the 17 national laboratories across the United States.
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From sea to scientific sea

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Take a tour of the 17 national laboratories across the United States.
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The quantum chase Some friendly competition led up to the first discovery of entanglement at the Large Hadron...
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The quantum chase

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Some friendly competition led up to the first discovery of entanglement at the Large Hadron Collider.
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One Textarea

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This Bridge’s Bizarre Design Nearly Caused It To Collapse [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Washington Bridge...
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This Bridge’s Bizarre Design Nearly Caused It To Collapse

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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Washington Bridge that carries I-195 over the Seekonk River in Providence, Rhode Island… or at least, it was the Washington Bridge. You can see that the westbound span is just about completely gone....
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Quantum Frontiers
The first and second centuries of quantum mechanics At this week’s American Physical Society Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California, John Preskill...
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The first and second centuries of quantum mechanics

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At this week’s American Physical Society Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California, John Preskill spoke at an event celebrating 100 years of groundbreaking advances in quantum mechanics. Here are his remarks. Welcome, everyone, to this celebration of 100 years of … Continue...
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Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 17: White-sand Birding At RN Allpahuayo-Mishana and Muyuna Lodge... February 24, 2024 Just outside of the city of Iquitos lies an expansive area containing white-sand...
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A Month In Northern Peru, Part 17: White-sand Birding At RN Allpahuayo-Mishana and Muyuna Lodge (February 24-25, 2024)

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February 24, 2024 Just outside of the city of Iquitos lies an expansive area containing white-sand forest. The particular forest types that grow on white sand are somewhat uncommon in the Amazon, yet the stunted tree growth provides quite the contrast to "typical" Amazonian...
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Long duration propellant stability in Starship Some ideas on preventing cryogenic propellant boiloff in Starship during long duration cruise or...
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Long duration propellant stability in Starship

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Some ideas on preventing cryogenic propellant boiloff in Starship during long duration cruise or while operating orbital fuel depots. The usual caveats apply! One of the major concerns with using Starship for the Human Landing System is that propellant (cryogenically liquid...
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Math Is Still...
Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models? Larger models can pull off greater feats, but the accessibility and efficiency of smaller models...
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Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models?

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Larger models can pull off greater feats, but the accessibility and efficiency of smaller models make them attractive tools. The post Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Cremieux Recueil
How To Get Cheap Ozempic Or other, more effective GLP-1 drugs
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How To Get Cheap Ozempic

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Or other, more effective GLP-1 drugs
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Ruby
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Ruby

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Tree Notation: an antifragile program notation

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Microprogramming: A New Way to Program

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What can we learn from programming language version numbers?

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Upstream of Everything

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English cannot encode Real News
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WWII Japanese Mass Incarceration collections Haunting photos and documents document a shameful chapter of America’s history—the forced...
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WWII Japanese Mass Incarceration collections

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Haunting photos and documents document a shameful chapter of America’s history—the forced displacement and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
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Many Narratives. All true.

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Writing in 2024

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symmetry magazine
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User Methods
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Issue 18: Urbanism with Chinese characteristics

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A physicist reflects on learning about a hidden figure whose research helped inspire her own.
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Metrics for Programmers
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March Meeting 2025, Day 4 and wrap-up I saw a couple of interesting talks this morning before heading out: Alessandro Chiesa of Parma...
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I saw a couple of interesting talks this morning before heading out: Alessandro Chiesa of Parma spoke about using spin-containing molecules potentially as qubits, and about chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) in electron transfer.  Regarding the former, here is a review. ...
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The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’ Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But...
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Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know where to look — and that means figuring out which planets are likely to have atmospheres in the first place. The post The Road Map to Alien Life...
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Could in vitro brains power AI?
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Developing an AI for Quantum Chess: Part 1

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In January 2016, Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter unveiled a YouTube video featuring an extraordinary chess showdown between actor Paul Rudd (a.k.a. Ant-Man) and the legendary Dr. Stephen Hawking. But this was no ordinary match—Rudd had challenged Hawking …...
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Every few weeks recently I’ve been putting a new fun problem on one of the whiteboards in the first year office. These are often inspired by something I saw on MSE, and I’m usually choosing problems that force you to understand something fundamental really well. Then I usually...
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The value of technological progress

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Math Is Still...
Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than...
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Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems

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It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new algorithm appears to do it for some critical optimization tasks. The post Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems first appeared...
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Time

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A Higher Language

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Cutting to the Bone

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One potentially positive outcome from the COVID pandemic is that it was a wakeup call – if there was any doubt previously about the fact that we all live in one giant interconnected world, it should not have survived the recent pandemic. This is particularly true when it comes to...
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Cognitive testing might be making a comeback. That could be very important.
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March Meeting 2025, Day 0 Technically, this year the conference is known as the APS Global Physics Summit rather than the...
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March Meeting 2025, Day 0

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Technically, this year the conference is known as the APS Global Physics Summit rather than the March Meeting, but I'm keeping my blog post titles consistent with previous years.   Over 14,000 physicists have descended upon Anaheim, and there are parallel events in more than a...
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Hybrid Bionic Hand If you think about the human hand as a work of engineering, it is absolutely incredible. The level...
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Hybrid Bionic Hand

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If you think about the human hand as a work of engineering, it is absolutely incredible. The level of fine motor control is extreme. It is responsive and precise. It has robust sensory feedback. It combines both rigid and soft components, so that it is able to grip and lift heavy...
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‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of...
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‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture

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The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in three dimensions illuminates a whole crop of related problems. The post ‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture first appeared on...
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Using AI for Teaching A recent BBC article reminded me of one of my enduring technology disappointments over the last 40...
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Using AI for Teaching

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A recent BBC article reminded me of one of my enduring technology disappointments over the last 40 years – the failure of the educational system to reasonably (let alone fully) leverage multimedia and computer technology to enhance learning. The article is about a symposium in...
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New Conversations, Deep Questions, Bold Ideas in Season Four of ‘The Joy of Why’ Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin return for a new season on major scientific and mathematical...
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New Conversations, Deep Questions, Bold Ideas in Season Four of ‘The Joy of Why’

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Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin return for a new season on major scientific and mathematical questions of our time, with 12 all-new episodes and a new format. The post New Conversations, Deep Questions, Bold Ideas in Season Four of ‘The Joy of Why’ first appeared on...
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Living with Predators For much of human history, wolves and other large carnivores were considered pests. Wolves were...
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Living with Predators

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For much of human history, wolves and other large carnivores were considered pests. Wolves were actively exterminated on the British Isles, with the last wolf killed in 1680. It is more difficulty to deliberately wipe out a species on a continent than an island, but across Europe...
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IEEE Recognizes Itaipu Dam’s Engineering Achievements

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Technology should benefit humanity. One of the most remarkable examples of technology’s potential to provide enduring benefits is the Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam, a massive binational energy project between Brazil and Paraguay. Built on the Paraná River, which forms part of the...
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Sometimes Papers Contain Obvious Lies What you read in an abstract, a title, or even in the body of a paper might be the opposite of what...
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What you read in an abstract, a title, or even in the body of a paper might be the opposite of what papers actually show, and sometimes result are just made up
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Why is it best to do one thing really, really well?
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Why is it best to do one thing really, really well?

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The Do You Know Game and Why We Need Celebrities
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The Do You Know Game and Why We Need Celebrities

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ICS: A Measure of Intelligence
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ICS: A Measure of Intelligence

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Rise Up, Europe! The Five Beliefs That Cripple a Continent
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Rise Up, Europe!

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The Journey of the Ketones
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The Journey of the Ketones

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Goblin Interviews Alexandra Elbakian
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Goblin Interviews Alexandra Elbakian

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The Intellectual Freedom Amendment
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The Intellectual Freedom Amendment

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ScrollNet: A successor to the Internet
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ScrollNet: A successor to the Internet

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Math Is Still...
How Did Multicellular Life Evolve? One of the most important events in the history of life on Earth was the emergence of...
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How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?

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One of the most important events in the history of life on Earth was the emergence of multicellularity. In this episode, Will Ratcliff discusses how his snowflake yeast models provide insight into what drove the transition from single-celled to multicellular organisms. ...
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Make Something You Love
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Make Something You Love

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The Invention of Free Will
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The Invention of Free Will

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Network Effects
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Network Effects

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On Eating Animals
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On Eating Animals

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nanoscale views
March Meeting 2025, Day 2 I spent a portion of today catching up with old friends and colleagues, so fewer highlights, but...
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March Meeting 2025, Day 2

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I spent a portion of today catching up with old friends and colleagues, so fewer highlights, but here are a couple: Like a few hundred other people, I went to the invited talk by Chetan Nayak, leader of Microsoft's quantum computing effort. It was sufficiently crowded that the...
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Math Is Still...
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case. Last year, an enormous map of the cosmos hinted that the engine driving cosmic expansion might be...
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Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case.

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Last year, an enormous map of the cosmos hinted that the engine driving cosmic expansion might be sputtering. Now physicists are back with an even bigger map, and a stronger conclusion. The post Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case. first...
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Neuroscience of Constructed Languages Language is an interesting neurological function to study. No animal other than humans has such a...
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The Neuroscience of Constructed Languages

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Language is an interesting neurological function to study. No animal other than humans has such a highly developed dedicated language processing area, or languages as complex and nuanced as humans. Although, whale language is more complex than we previously thought, but still not...
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How the public domain can win
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How the public domain can win

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Black Swans and Technology
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Black Swans and Technology

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The Least You Can Do
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The Least You Can Do

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The Liver Turns On and Off
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The Liver Turns On and Off

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The Recency Effect
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The Recency Effect

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nanoscale views
March Meeting 2025, Day 1 The APS Global Physics Summit is an intimate affair, with a mere 14,000 attendees, all apparently...
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March Meeting 2025, Day 1

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The APS Global Physics Summit is an intimate affair, with a mere 14,000 attendees, all apparently vying for lunch capacity for about 2,000 people.   The first day of the meeting was the usual controlled chaos of people trying to learn the layout of the convention center while...
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Uncharted...
10 Interesting Facts on Relationships & Sex Q1 2025
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10 Interesting Facts on Relationships & Sex

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Q1 2025
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The Works in...
Links in Progress: Where's my winter robot chauffeur? What we've been reading: science, metascience, tech, housing, fertility and more ...
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Links in Progress: Where's my winter robot chauffeur?

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What we've been reading: science, metascience, tech, housing, fertility and more ...
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March Meeting 2025, Day 3 Another busy day at the APS Global Physics Summit.  Here are a few highlights: Shahal Ilani of the...
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March Meeting 2025, Day 3

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Another busy day at the APS Global Physics Summit.  Here are a few highlights: Shahal Ilani of the Weizmann gave an absolutely fantastic talk about his group's latest results from their quantum twisting microscope.  In a scanning tunneling microscope, because tunneling happens...
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IEEE Spectrum
AlexNet Source Code Is Now Open Source In partnership with Google, the Computer History Museum has released the source code to AlexNet, the...
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AlexNet Source Code Is Now Open Source

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In partnership with Google, the Computer History Museum has released the source code to AlexNet, the neural network that in 2012 kickstarted today’s prevailing approach to AI. The source code is available as open source on CHM’s GitHub page. What Is AlexNet? AlexNet is an...
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The Works in...
King of fruits Ordinary yellow pineapples were once so precious they were rented for display at dinner parties, but...
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King of fruits

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Ordinary yellow pineapples were once so precious they were rented for display at dinner parties, but centuries of innovation made them commonplace.
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Links in Progress: Good drug news More important things happening in biotechnology and medicine
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Links in Progress: Good drug news

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More important things happening in biotechnology and medicine
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Flip Flopping
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Flip Flopping

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The Churn Rate of Data
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The Churn Rate of Data

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Asterisk
The Science of Woo A conversation about neuroscience, meditation, and the many paths to insight.
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The Science of Woo

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A conversation about neuroscience, meditation, and the many paths to insight.
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Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by...
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Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.

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New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by checking whether they cross a “reality threshold.” The post Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, September 2023 A quasi-monthly feature. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them...
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What I’ve been reading, September 2023

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A quasi-monthly feature. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them in my links digests. I’ve been busy helping to choose the first cohort of our blogging fellowship, so my reading has been relatively light. All emphasis in bold in the quotes...
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Polar Night Surreal and otherworldly.
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Polar Night

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Surreal and otherworldly.
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The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, June 2023 A monthly feature. As usual, recent blog posts and news stories are omitted from this; you can find...
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What I’ve been reading, June 2023

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A monthly feature. As usual, recent blog posts and news stories are omitted from this; you can find them in my links digests. In all quotes below, any emphasis in bold was added by me. Books Thomas S. Ashton, The Industrial Revolution, 1760–1830 (1948). A classic in the field,...
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How Much Do Couples Share Traits? Do birds of a feather flock together, or do opposites attract? These are both common aphorisms,...
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How Much Do Couples Share Traits?

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Do birds of a feather flock together, or do opposites attract? These are both common aphorisms, which means that they are commonly offered as generally accepted truths, but also that they may by wrong. People like pithy phrases, so they spread prolifically, but that does not mean...
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Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but...
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Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking

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Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but they help reveal the limits of algorithms. The post Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Inverted Passion
You can’t jail an AI Here’s why I worry about AI. We know that people can get away with anything to pursue their goals...
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You can’t jail an AI

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Here’s why I worry about AI. We know that people can get away with anything to pursue their goals (of profit, power, etc.) as long as they know they can get away with it, without negative consequences. We have had Hitlers, and insider traders. But the world keeps them in check...
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Math Is Still...
A Very Big Small Leap Forward in Graph Theory Four mathematicians have found a new upper limit to the “Ramsey number,” a crucial property...
a year ago
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A Very Big Small Leap Forward in Graph Theory

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Four mathematicians have found a new upper limit to the “Ramsey number,” a crucial property describing unavoidable structure in graphs. The post A Very Big Small Leap Forward in Graph Theory first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Bartosz Ciechanowski
Bicycle There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling...
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Bicycle

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over a year ago
There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling to move forward and turning the handlebars to steer makes bike riding an effortless activity. In the demonstration below, you can guide the rider with the slider, and you can also...
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Math Is Still...
Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t Today’s language models are more sophisticated than ever, but they still struggle with the concept...
a year ago
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Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t

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Today’s language models are more sophisticated than ever, but they still struggle with the concept of negation. That’s unlikely to change anytime soon. The post Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics In the math of particle physics, every calculation should result in infinity. The set of techniques...
a year ago
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How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics

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In the math of particle physics, every calculation should result in infinity. The set of techniques known as “resurgence” points toward an escape. The post How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Beautiful Public...
FAA Aviation Maps Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a...
a year ago
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FAA Aviation Maps

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Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s aviation maps.
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Quantum Frontiers
How I didn’t become a philosopher (but wound up presenting a named philosophy lecture anyway) Many people ask why I became a theoretical physicist. The answer runs through philosophy—which I...
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How I didn’t become a philosopher (but wound up presenting a named philosophy lecture anyway)

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Many people ask why I became a theoretical physicist. The answer runs through philosophy—which I thought, for years, I’d left behind in college. My formal relationship with philosophy originated with Mr. Bohrer. My high school classified him as a religion … Continue reading →
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Math Is Still...
A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly —...
a year ago
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A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence

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a year ago
By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly — and efficiently — than before. The post A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never...
a year ago
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Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media

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a year ago
In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never do it perfectly, but a new study shows it’s possible for machines. The post Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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IEEE Spectrum
The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper “Clap on! Clap off! Clap on! Clap off! The Clapper!” This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget...
a year ago
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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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a year ago
“Clap on! Clap off! Clap on! Clap off! The Clapper!” This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget to turn your lights, your TV, or any other electrical device on or off with the clap of your hands. If you watched any amount of American television back then, you probably saw the...
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Quantum Frontiers
The quantum gold rush Even if you don’t recognize the name, you probably recognize the saguaro cactus. It’s the archetype...
a year ago
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The quantum gold rush

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a year ago
Even if you don’t recognize the name, you probably recognize the saguaro cactus. It’s the archetype of the cactus, a column from which protrude arms bent at right angles like elbows. As my husband pointed out, the cactus emoji is … Continue reading →
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Eukaryote Writes...
Internet Harvest (2024, 1) Free covid treatment for everyone in the US, a novel orthopox virus, a really big machine, cameras...
a year ago
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Internet Harvest (2024, 1)

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a year ago
Free covid treatment for everyone in the US, a novel orthopox virus, a really big machine, cameras used for good and evil, ant heaven now, and more.
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symmetry magazine
A different way of thinking Neurodivergent physicists face barriers in STEM, but there are also benefits to being who they are.
a year ago
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A different way of thinking

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a year ago
Neurodivergent physicists face barriers in STEM, but there are also benefits to being who they are.
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Fight over Education There is an ongoing culture war, and not just in the US, over the content of childhood education,...
a year ago
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The Fight over Education

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a year ago
There is an ongoing culture war, and not just in the US, over the content of childhood education, both public and private. This seems to be flaring up recently, but is never truly gone. Republicans in the US have recently escalated this war by banning over 500 books in several...
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Blog - Practical...
How Do Fish Ladders Work? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Building a dam imparts a...
12 months ago
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How Do Fish Ladders Work?

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12 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Building a dam imparts a stupendous change to the environment, and as with any change, there are winners and losers. The winners are usually us, people, through hydropower generation, protection from flooding,...
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Quantum Frontiers
Let gravity do its work One day, early this spring, I found myself in a hotel elevator with three other people. The cohort...
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Let gravity do its work

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10 months ago
One day, early this spring, I found myself in a hotel elevator with three other people. The cohort consisted of two theoretical physicists, one computer scientist, and what appeared to be a normal person. I pressed the elevator’s 4 button, … Continue reading →
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NeuroLogica Blog
Have Current AI Reached Their Limit? We are still very much in the hype phase of the latest crop of artificial intelligence applications,...
a year ago
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Have Current AI Reached Their Limit?

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a year ago
We are still very much in the hype phase of the latest crop of artificial intelligence applications, specifically the large language models and so-called “transformers” like Chat GPT. Transformers are a deep learning model that use self-attention to differentially weight the...
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Math Is Still...
How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed After decades of frustration, researchers have finally determined how an airborne scent molecule...
a year ago
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How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed

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a year ago
After decades of frustration, researchers have finally determined how an airborne scent molecule links to a human smell receptor. The post How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Works in...
Degrowth and the monkey's paw Fifteen years ago, when I worked in the “social innovation” field, there was a world-view that was...
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Degrowth and the monkey's paw

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a year ago
Fifteen years ago, when I worked in the “social innovation” field, there was a world-view that was very popular among my colleagues about what was wrong with society and how to fix it. The idea was that people and governments needed to stop seeing economic growth as a good thing,...
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Blog - Practical...
Do Droughts Make Floods Worse? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Do you remember the summer of...
a year ago
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Do Droughts Make Floods Worse?

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Do you remember the summer of 2022 when a record drought had gripped not only a large part of the United States, but most of Europe too? Reservoirs were empty, wildfires spread, crop yields dropped, and rivers...
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The Works in...
Invisible College applications close on Friday Applications to our new residential seminar close this coming Friday, 31st May
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Invisible College applications close on Friday

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
Applications to our new residential seminar close this coming Friday, 31st May
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Beautiful Public...
Wild Horses The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has...
a year ago
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Wild Horses

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a year ago
The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has been criticized by animal rights advocates and subject to scrutiny by Congress.
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Math Is Still...
Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse? Several areas of physics suggest reasons to think that unobservable universes with different natural...
a year ago
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Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Several areas of physics suggest reasons to think that unobservable universes with different natural laws could lie beyond ours. The theoretical physicist David Kaplan talks with Steven Strogatz about the mysteries that a multiverse would solve. The post Are There...
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Beautiful Public...
1,000 Photos of Dolphin Fins Scars, scratches and wounds abound in these photos as encounters with unknown creatures and boat...
a year ago
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1,000 Photos of Dolphin Fins

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Scars, scratches and wounds abound in these photos as encounters with unknown creatures and boat propellers leave their marks, imprinting a story of close escapes and cheating death.
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pcloadletter
The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape Here we go again: I'm so tired of crypto web3 LLMs. I'm positive there are wonderful applications...
10 months ago
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The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape

from pcloadletter [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
Here we go again: I'm so tired of crypto web3 LLMs. I'm positive there are wonderful applications for LLMs. The ChatGPT web UI seems great for summarizing information from various online sources (as long as you're willing to verify the things that you learn). But a lot fo the "AI...
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Math Is Still...
Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture Mathematicians have disproved a major conjecture about the relationship between curvature and shape....
10 months ago
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Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
Mathematicians have disproved a major conjecture about the relationship between curvature and shape. The post Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Beautiful Public...
Aerial Glacier Photographs A collection of 100,000 striking high-resolution aerial photos of glaciers, photographed over 40...
9 months ago
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Aerial Glacier Photographs

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
A collection of 100,000 striking high-resolution aerial photos of glaciers, photographed over 40 years with a 63-pound WW II surveillance camera.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
AI in healthcare - defensibility, capabilities, and cost reduction | Out-Of-Pocket fine fine I'll write about AI
10 months ago
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AI in healthcare - defensibility, capabilities, and cost reduction | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
fine fine I'll write about AI
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brr
South Pole Water Infrastructure Fresh water from snow, at 70 below!
9 months ago
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South Pole Water Infrastructure

from brr [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
Fresh water from snow, at 70 below!
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Inverted Passion
How to be a messy thinker I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental...
10 months ago
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How to be a messy thinker

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental models, and I’ll gobble it up. Given the amount of knowledge I’ve ingested on these topics, I had always assumed that I’m a clear thinker. Recently, though, it hit me like a...
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IEEE Spectrum
The Sneaky Standard A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the...
10 months ago
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The Sneaky Standard

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. These...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low For decades scientists were confused by Antarctic sea ice. Climate models predict that it should be...
10 months ago
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Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
For decades scientists were confused by Antarctic sea ice. Climate models predict that it should be decreasing, and yet it has been steadily and slowly increasing. It also made for a great talking point for climate change deniers – superficially it seems like counter evidence to...
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IEEE Spectrum
Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter zombie mysteries, historical fiction, pirate adventure tales, and westerns. science fiction. The...
12 months ago
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Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

12 months ago
zombie mysteries, historical fiction, pirate adventure tales, and westerns. science fiction. The publishers of Astounding Science Fiction approached Hubbard to write stories that focused on people, rather than robots and machines. His first story, “The Dangerous Dimension,” was...
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Beautiful Public...
Mapping Volcano Eruptions With Drones Drones have become an essential tool to map, measure and observe the extremely dangerous...
a year ago
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Mapping Volcano Eruptions With Drones

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Drones have become an essential tool to map, measure and observe the extremely dangerous environments surrounding volcanic eruptions.
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Beautiful Public...
The Naughty Words the FAA Removed From the Sky New FOIA records from the FAA shed light on the frantic effort in 2015 to rename navigation...
10 months ago
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The Naughty Words the FAA Removed From the Sky

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
New FOIA records from the FAA shed light on the frantic effort in 2015 to rename navigation waypoints related to Donald Trump and reveal the list of naughty waypoint names that were changed over the years.
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Math Is Still...
How ‘Idle’ Egg Cells Defend Their DNA From Damage How do immature egg cells maintain genetic quality for decades before they mature? Scientists find...
10 months ago
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How ‘Idle’ Egg Cells Defend Their DNA From Damage

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
How do immature egg cells maintain genetic quality for decades before they mature? Scientists find unusual safeguards in this quiescent cell that may inform research into fertility. The post How ‘Idle’ Egg Cells Defend Their DNA From Damage first appeared on Quanta...
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IEEE Spectrum
Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector In the mid-1960s, Robert Kahn began thinking about how computers with different operating systems...
11 months ago
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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
In the mid-1960s, Robert Kahn began thinking about how computers with different operating systems could talk to each other across a network. He didn’t think much about what they would say to one another, though. He was a theoretical guy, on leave from the faculty of the...
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Blog - Practical...
How Flood Tunnels Work [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is Waterloo Park in...
a year ago
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How Flood Tunnels Work

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is Waterloo Park in downtown Austin, Texas, just a couple of blocks away from the state capitol building. It’s got walking trails, an ampitheater, Waller Creek runs right through the center, and it has...
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Blog - Practical...
Why Bridges Don't Sink [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The essence of a bridge is not...
9 months ago
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Why Bridges Don't Sink

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The essence of a bridge is not just that it goes over something, but that there’s clear space underneath for a river, railway, or road. Maybe this is already obvious to you, but bridges present a unique...
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Beautiful Public...
Trademark Design Codes The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes"...
11 months ago
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Trademark Design Codes

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes" allowing you to search for trademarks with “Rickshaws”, “Centaurs” or “Mechanical women”.
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Beautiful Public...
Design for the People: The US Web Design System and the Public Sans Typeface The United States has an official web design system and a custom typeface that belongs to the...
9 months ago
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Design for the People: The US Web Design System and the Public Sans Typeface

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
The United States has an official web design system and a custom typeface that belongs to the people. This thoughtful public design system aims to make government websites not only look good, but to make them accessible and functional for all.
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symmetry magazine
Spacetime: All the universe’s a stage In the 1900s, Albert Einstein unified the concepts of space and time, giving us a useful new way to...
a year ago
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Spacetime: All the universe’s a stage

from symmetry magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
In the 1900s, Albert Einstein unified the concepts of space and time, giving us a useful new way to picture the universe.
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Math Is Still...
Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of...
a year ago
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Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. The post Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Quantum Frontiers
Film noir and quantum thermo In four months, I’ll embark on the adventure of a lifetime—fatherhood. To prepare, I’ve been honing...
10 months ago
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Film noir and quantum thermo

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
In four months, I’ll embark on the adventure of a lifetime—fatherhood. To prepare, I’ve been honing a quintessential father skill—storytelling. If my son inherits even a fraction of my tastes, he’ll soon develop a passion for film noir detective stories. … Continue reading →
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The Roots of...
What is progress? In one sense, the concept of progress is simple, straightforward, and uncontroversial. In another...
a year ago
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What is progress?

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
In one sense, the concept of progress is simple, straightforward, and uncontroversial. In another sense, it contains an entire worldview. The most basic meaning of “progress” is simply advancement along a path, or more generally from one state to another that is considered more...
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Blog - Practical...
The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In March of 1989, Earth...
9 months ago
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The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In March of 1989, Earth experienced one of its strongest geomagnetic storms in modern history. It all started when scientists observed a cluster of sunspots—active, magnetic areas on the sun's surface—emerging...
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Blog - Practical...
Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The Earth is pretty cool and...
10 months ago
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Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The Earth is pretty cool and all, but many of its most magnificent features make it tough for us to get around. When the topography is too wet, steep, treacherous, or prone to disaster, sometimes the only way...
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Math Is Still...
Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering Memories may affect how well the brain will learn about future events by shifting our perceptions of...
a year ago
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Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Memories may affect how well the brain will learn about future events by shifting our perceptions of the world. The post Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Stephen Wolfram...
Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What’s Next So… What Happened? Today is my birthday—for the 65th time. Five years ago, on my 60th birthday, I...
7 months ago
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Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What’s Next

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in science

7 months ago
So… What Happened? Today is my birthday—for the 65th time. Five years ago, on my 60th birthday, I did a livestream where I talked about some of my plans. So… what happened? Well, what happened was great. And in fact I’ve just had the most productive five years of my life. Nine...
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Math Is Still...
New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks Assemble Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of...
10 months ago
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New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks Assemble

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of interacting complexes of protein, DNA, RNA and other molecules, better capturing cells’ biological landscapes. The post New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Transcarent, AI Therapists, Interoperability, and more | Out-Of-Pocket Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
2 months ago
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Transcarent, AI Therapists, Interoperability, and more | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

2 months ago
Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
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The Roots of...
What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came? Imagine you could go back in time to the ancient world to jump-start the Industrial Revolution. You...
a year ago
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What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came?

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Imagine you could go back in time to the ancient world to jump-start the Industrial Revolution. You carry with you plans for a steam engine, and you present them to the emperor, explaining how the machine could be used to drain water out of mines, pump bellows for blast furnaces,...
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Inverted Passion
Why time seems to pass faster as we age 1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as...
a year ago
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Why time seems to pass faster as we age

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as compared to when I was a kid or even as a teen. It seems cosmically unfair – we have fewer years to live, and each year flies by faster. 2/ But, why is that happening? My tentative...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Predicting Outcome in Severe Brain Injury One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical...
10 months ago
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Predicting Outcome in Severe Brain Injury

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical medical condition and have to make life-or-death medical decisions for them. I have been in this situation many times as the consulting neurologist, and I have seen how weighty this...
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Eukaryote Writes...
Web-surfing tips for strange times Meditations on what's bad about the internet lately and how to use it anyhow.
10 months ago
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Web-surfing tips for strange times

from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
Meditations on what's bad about the internet lately and how to use it anyhow.
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Math Is Still...
Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates Electrons have been seen uniting into entities with fractions of electric charge, this time without...
10 months ago
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Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
Electrons have been seen uniting into entities with fractions of electric charge, this time without a magnetic field coaxing them into it. The post Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Inverted Passion
Usefulness grounds truth Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what...
8 months ago
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Usefulness grounds truth

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago
Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what LLMs can or cannot do. To a limited extent, the original question is useful because it creates an opening for people to go into specific. But, beyond that initial use, the question...
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Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions Topologists prove two new results that bring some order to the confoundingly difficult study of...
11 months ago
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Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
Topologists prove two new results that bring some order to the confoundingly difficult study of four-dimensional shapes. The post Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Beautiful Public...
The Army and Navy Style Guides These fascinating Army and Navy brand style guides define the look, feel and voice of our armed...
a year ago
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The Army and Navy Style Guides

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
These fascinating Army and Navy brand style guides define the look, feel and voice of our armed forces.
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Stephen Wolfram...
Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant Note: As of today, copies of Wolfram Version 14.1 are being auto-updated to allow subscription...
3 months ago
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Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in science

3 months ago
Note: As of today, copies of Wolfram Version 14.1 are being auto-updated to allow subscription access to the capabilities described here. [For additional installation information see here.] Just Say What You Want! Turning Words into Computation Nearly a year and a half ago—just a...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Spotting Misinformation There is an interesting disconnect in our culture recently. About 90% of people claim that they...
10 months ago
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Spotting Misinformation

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
There is an interesting disconnect in our culture recently. About 90% of people claim that they verify information they encounter in the news and on social media, and 96% of Americans say that we need to limit the spread of misinformation online. And yet, the spread of...
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Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Find Hidden Structure in a Common Type of Space In 50 years of searching, mathematicians found only one example of a “subspace design” in a vector...
a year ago
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Mathematicians Find Hidden Structure in a Common Type of Space

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
In 50 years of searching, mathematicians found only one example of a “subspace design” in a vector space. A new proof reveals that there are infinitely more out there. The post Mathematicians Find Hidden Structure in a Common Type of Space first appeared on Quanta...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Indigenous Knowledge I recently received the following question to the SGU e-mail: “I have had several conversations with...
11 months ago
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Indigenous Knowledge

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
I recently received the following question to the SGU e-mail: “I have had several conversations with friends/colleagues lately regarding indigenous beliefs/stories. They assert that not believing these based on oral histories alone is morally wrong and ignoring a different...
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The Works in...
Issue 15: To change a norm Plus: bland buildings can't be blamed on labor costs, reasons to be sceptical about prediction...
10 months ago
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Issue 15: To change a norm

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
Plus: bland buildings can't be blamed on labor costs, reasons to be sceptical about prediction markets, and gentrification policies that actually help.
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Math Is Still...
The Year in Math Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time...
3 months ago
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The Year in Math

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

3 months ago
Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future. The post The Year in Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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IEEE Spectrum
The Story Behind Pixar’s RenderMan CGI Software Watching movies and TV series that use digital visual effects to create fantastical worlds lets...
a year ago
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The Story Behind Pixar’s RenderMan CGI Software

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a year ago
Watching movies and TV series that use digital visual effects to create fantastical worlds lets people escape reality for a few hours. Thanks to advancements in computer-generated technology used to produce films and shows, those worlds are highly realistic. In many cases, it can...
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Inverted Passion
What bootstraps intelligence? A musing on how intelligence comes to be. The bedrock of intelligence is abstractions – the thing we...
6 months ago
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What bootstraps intelligence?

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6 months ago
A musing on how intelligence comes to be. The bedrock of intelligence is abstractions – the thing we do when we throw away a lot of information and just emphasise on a subset of it (e.g. calling that thing an apple instead of describing all its atoms and their x, y, z positions)....
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Stephen Wolfram...
On the Nature of Time The Computational View of Time Time is a central feature of human experience. But what actually is...
5 months ago
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On the Nature of Time

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5 months ago
The Computational View of Time Time is a central feature of human experience. But what actually is it? In traditional scientific accounts it’s often represented as some kind of coordinate much like space (though a coordinate that for some reason is always systematically...
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Blog - Practical...
How Railroad Crossings Work [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you’ve ever ridden a bike,...
a year ago
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How Railroad Crossings Work

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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you’ve ever ridden a bike, driven a car, or operated pretty much any other vehicle on earth, there’s a fact you’ve probably taken for granted: you can see farther than it takes to stop. Within the span...
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Quantum Frontiers
Watch out for geese! My summer in Waterloo It’s the beginning of another summer, and I’m looking forward to outdoor barbecues, swimming in...
9 months ago
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Watch out for geese! My summer in Waterloo

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9 months ago
It’s the beginning of another summer, and I’m looking forward to outdoor barbecues, swimming in lakes and pools, and sharing my home-made ice cream with friends and family. One thing that I won’t encounter this summer, but I did last … Continue reading →
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Stephen Wolfram...
Ruliology of the “Forgotten” Code 10 My All-Time Favorite Science Discovery June 1, 1984—forty years ago today—is when it would be fair...
10 months ago
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Ruliology of the “Forgotten” Code 10

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10 months ago
My All-Time Favorite Science Discovery June 1, 1984—forty years ago today—is when it would be fair to say I made my all-time favorite science discovery. Like with basically all significant science discoveries (despite the way histories often present them) it didn’t happen without...
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Math Is Still...
Electric ‘Ripples’ in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage New experiments reveal how the brain chooses which memories to save and add credence to advice about...
10 months ago
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Electric ‘Ripples’ in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage

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10 months ago
New experiments reveal how the brain chooses which memories to save and add credence to advice about the importance of rest. The post Electric ‘Ripples’ in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
Rats! What killed off the dodo? Humans first arrived at Mauritius island in the late 1500s. They found on...
9 months ago
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Rats!

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9 months ago
What killed off the dodo? Humans first arrived at Mauritius island in the late 1500s. They found on this island fat flightless birds who nested on the ground and were a convenient way to restock their ship’s food supply. Within 80 years the dodo went extinct. But hunting was not...
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Math Is Still...
Why Mathematical Proof Is a Social Compact Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite...
a year ago
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Why Mathematical Proof Is a Social Compact

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a year ago
Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite within reach. The post Why Mathematical Proof Is a Social Compact first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Silly little rules in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket The industry is chock full of ‘em, here's 3
10 months ago
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Silly little rules in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket

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10 months ago
The industry is chock full of ‘em, here's 3
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Math Is Still...
Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack? Two mathematicians have proved a long-standing conjecture that is a step on the way toward finding...
9 months ago
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Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack?

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9 months ago
Two mathematicians have proved a long-standing conjecture that is a step on the way toward finding the worst shape for packing the plane. The post Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
The New Wave of Concierge Medicine | Out-Of-Pocket This episode of Out-Of-Pocket is brought to you by…
8 months ago
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The New Wave of Concierge Medicine | Out-Of-Pocket

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8 months ago
This episode of Out-Of-Pocket is brought to you by…
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Quantum Frontiers
My experimental adventures in quantum thermodynamics Imagine a billiard ball bouncing around on a pool table. High-school level physics enables us to...
a year ago
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My experimental adventures in quantum thermodynamics

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a year ago
Imagine a billiard ball bouncing around on a pool table. High-school level physics enables us to predict its motion until the end of time using simple equations for energy and momentum conservation, as long as you know the initial conditions … Continue reading →
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Math Is Still...
Number of Distances Separating Points Has a New Bound Mathematicians have struggled to prove Falconer’s Conjecture, a simple, but far-reaching, hypothesis...
11 months ago
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Number of Distances Separating Points Has a New Bound

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11 months ago
Mathematicians have struggled to prove Falconer’s Conjecture, a simple, but far-reaching, hypothesis about the distances between points. They’re finally getting close. The post Number of Distances Separating Points Has a New Bound first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the...
11 months ago
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Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft

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11 months ago
Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) next decade. The post Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more...
3 months ago
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Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold

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3 months ago
In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications. The post Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold first appeared on Quanta...
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IEEE Spectrum
Lord Kelvin and His Analog Computer William Thomson, mourning the death of his wife and flush with cash from various patents related to...
10 months ago
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Lord Kelvin and His Analog Computer

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10 months ago
William Thomson, mourning the death of his wife and flush with cash from various patents related to the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, decided to buy a yacht. His schooner, the Lalla Rookh, became Thomson’s summer home and his base for hosting scientific...
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The Works in...
To change a norm How the war on drunk driving was won
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To change a norm

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9 months ago
How the war on drunk driving was won
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
How do hospitals spend money? | Out-Of-Pocket it's time to look at a financial statement
9 months ago
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How do hospitals spend money? | Out-Of-Pocket

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9 months ago
it's time to look at a financial statement
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brr
Engineering for Slow Internet How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica.
10 months ago
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Engineering for Slow Internet

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10 months ago
How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica.
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Math Is Still...
Diminishing Dark Energy May Evade the ‘Swampland’ of Impossible Universes The largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos hints that the dark energy that’s fueling the universe’s...
7 months ago
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Diminishing Dark Energy May Evade the ‘Swampland’ of Impossible Universes

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7 months ago
The largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos hints that the dark energy that’s fueling the universe’s expansion may be weakening. One community of theoretical physicists expected as much. The post Diminishing Dark Energy May Evade the ‘Swampland’ of Impossible Universes...
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Math Is Still...
Simple Equation Predicts the Shapes of Carbon-Capturing Wetlands To calculate the amount of carbon stored inside peatlands, researchers developed a unified theory of...
10 months ago
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Simple Equation Predicts the Shapes of Carbon-Capturing Wetlands

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10 months ago
To calculate the amount of carbon stored inside peatlands, researchers developed a unified theory of “bog physics” applicable around the world. The post Simple Equation Predicts the Shapes of Carbon-Capturing Wetlands first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
More weird rules in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket 3 liters of blood, sequential billing, COBRA, and more
9 months ago
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More weird rules in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket

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9 months ago
3 liters of blood, sequential billing, COBRA, and more
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Math Is Still...
The Most Important Machine That Was Never Built When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing. ...
a year ago
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The Most Important Machine That Was Never Built

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a year ago
When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing. The post The Most Important Machine That Was Never Built first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Lunar Cycle and Suicide Does the lunar cycle affect human behavior? This seems to be a question that refuses to die, no...
a year ago
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The Lunar Cycle and Suicide

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a year ago
Does the lunar cycle affect human behavior? This seems to be a question that refuses to die, no matter how hard it is to confirm any actual effect. It’s now a cultural idea, deeply embedded and not going anywhere. A recent study, however, seems to show a correlation between...
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Math Is Still...
The Enduring Mystery of How Water Freezes Making ice requires more than subzero temperatures. The unpredictable process takes microscopic...
9 months ago
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The Enduring Mystery of How Water Freezes

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9 months ago
Making ice requires more than subzero temperatures. The unpredictable process takes microscopic scaffolding, random jiggling and often a little bit of bacteria. The post The Enduring Mystery of How Water Freezes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
A Greener Li-Ion Battery It is increasingly obvious that battery technology is one of the keys to transitioning our...
10 months ago
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A Greener Li-Ion Battery

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10 months ago
It is increasingly obvious that battery technology is one of the keys to transitioning our civilization away from burning fossil fuels. Batteries facilitate the use of cheap, green, but intermittent energy sources. They also allow for the electrification of technology sectors...
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IEEE Spectrum
The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards Today, typing in Chinese works by converting QWERTY keystrokes into Chinese characters via a...
10 months ago
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The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards

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10 months ago
Today, typing in Chinese works by converting QWERTY keystrokes into Chinese characters via a software interface, known as an input method editor. But this was not always the case. Thomas S. Mullaney’s new book, The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age,...
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Eukaryote Writes...
Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon Most of us go about our lives comforted by the thought “I would never drop a nuclear weapon on the...
11 months ago
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Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon

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11 months ago
Most of us go about our lives comforted by the thought “I would never drop a nuclear weapon on the moon.” The truth is that given a lot of power, a nuclear weapon, and a lot of extremely specific circumstances, we too might find ourselves thinking “I should nuke the moon.”
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Quantum Frontiers
Identical twins and quantum entanglement “If I had a nickel for every unsolicited and very personal health question I’ve gotten at parties,...
over a year ago
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Identical twins and quantum entanglement

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over a year ago
“If I had a nickel for every unsolicited and very personal health question I’ve gotten at parties, I’d have paid off my medical school loans by now,” my doctor friend complained. As a physicist, I can somewhat relate. I occasionally … Continue reading →
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Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative views of the universe’s...
10 months ago
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Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang

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10 months ago
By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative views of the universe’s first moments. The post Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Blog - Practical...
How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Long ago, maybe upwards of 1-2...
a year ago
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How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa

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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Long ago, maybe upwards of 1-2 million years ago, a river in the central part of what’s now Italy, emptied into what’s now the Ligurian Sea. It still does, by the way, but it did back then too. As the sea rose...
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pcloadletter
My articles don't belong on certain social networks I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Some people enjoy reading what I write, which makes me...
10 months ago
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My articles don't belong on certain social networks

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10 months ago
I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Some people enjoy reading what I write, which makes me feel really great! Recently, I took down a post and stopped writing for a few months because I didn't love the reaction I was getting on social media sites like Reddit and Hacker...
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Math Is Still...
AI Needs Enormous Computing Power. Could Light-Based Chips Help? Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional...
10 months ago
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AI Needs Enormous Computing Power. Could Light-Based Chips Help?

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10 months ago
Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles. The post AI Needs Enormous Computing Power. Could Light-Based Chips Help? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
Using AI To Create Virtual Environments Generative AI applications seem to be on the steep part of the development curve – not only is the...
11 months ago
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Using AI To Create Virtual Environments

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11 months ago
Generative AI applications seem to be on the steep part of the development curve – not only is the technology getting better, but people are finding more and more uses for it. It’s a new powerful tool with broad applicability, and so there are countless startups and researchers...
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The Works in...
Should you infect yourself with Zika? What life is like in a challenge trial
11 months ago
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Should you infect yourself with Zika?

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11 months ago
What life is like in a challenge trial
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Blog - Practical...
How the Hawaiian Power Grid Works [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In January of 2024, right on...
a year ago
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How the Hawaiian Power Grid Works

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In January of 2024, right on the heels of a serious drought across the state, a major storm slammed into the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Kauai. Severe winds caused damage to buildings, and heavy rain flooded...
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Quantum Frontiers
The rain in Portugal My husband taught me how to pronounce the name of the city where I’d be presenting a talk late last...
a year ago
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The rain in Portugal

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a year ago
My husband taught me how to pronounce the name of the city where I’d be presenting a talk late last July: Aveiro, Portugal. Having studied Spanish, I pronounced the name as Ah-VEH-roh, with a v partway to a hard b. … Continue reading →
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Math Is Still...
Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of...
10 months ago
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Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in a stream of data. The post Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems....
10 months ago
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Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems. The post Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Blog - Practical...
Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On June 4, 2022, a small piece...
11 months ago
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Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On June 4, 2022, a small piece of equipment (called a lightning arrestor) at a power plant in Odessa, Texas failed, causing part of the plant to trip offline. It was a fairly typical fault that happens from...
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Inverted Passion
Getting things done by not trying I recently finished a very short book with an intriguing title: Why Greatness Cannot be Planned....
5 months ago
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Getting things done by not trying

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5 months ago
I recently finished a very short book with an intriguing title: Why Greatness Cannot be Planned. It’s an unconventional self-help book disguised as a computer science research exposition (that’s why the publisher is Springer). I strongly recommend reading it. Here is a taste of...
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wadertales
How are migration sites connected? Which are the most important migration sites and how are breeding, moulting, staging and wintering...
2 months ago
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How are migration sites connected?

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2 months ago
Which are the most important migration sites and how are breeding, moulting, staging and wintering locations linked? Forty-four authors have collaborated to bring together ringing, colour-ringing and GPS tracking data in a paper entitled Site-level connectivity identified from...
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IEEE Spectrum
How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The...
11 months ago
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How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet

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11 months ago
I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The Institute. Invented by computer scientists Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs, Ethernet has been extraordinarily impactful. Metcalfe, an IEEE Fellow, received the 1996 IEEE Medal of...
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IEEE Spectrum
When IBM Built a War Room for Executives Computer History Museum’s collection has a biography of sorts—a life before CHM, a tale about how it...
3 months ago
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When IBM Built a War Room for Executives

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3 months ago
Computer History Museum’s collection has a biography of sorts—a life before CHM, a tale about how it came to us, and a life within the museum. The chapters of that biography include the uses made of it, and the historical and interpretive stories it can be made to tell. This then...
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IEEE Spectrum
This Wearable Computer Made a Fashion Statement Google Glass debuted, the artist Lisa Krohn designed a prototype wearable computer that looked like...
9 months ago
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This Wearable Computer Made a Fashion Statement

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9 months ago
Google Glass debuted, the artist Lisa Krohn designed a prototype wearable computer that looked like no other. The Cyberdesk was an experiment in augmented reality. At a time when computers were mostly beige and boxy, Krohn envisioned a pliable, high-tech garment that fused...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
AI in healthcare - defensibility, capabilities, and cost reduction | Out-Of-Pocket
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AI in healthcare - defensibility, capabilities, and cost reduction | Out-Of-Pocket

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pcloadletter
Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am The older I get, the more I dislike clever code. This is not a controversial take; it is pretty-well...
10 months ago
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Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am

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10 months ago
The older I get, the more I dislike clever code. This is not a controversial take; it is pretty-well agreed upon that clever code is bad. But I particularly like the on-call responsiblity framing: write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am. If you have never...
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Stephen Wolfram...
Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics Related writings: “Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding” (2018) » “The...
2 months ago
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Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics

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2 months ago
Related writings: “Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding” (2018) » “The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics” (2022) » “Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics” (2014) » The Simplest Axiom...
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Math Is Still...
He Seeks Mystery Magnetic Fields With His Quantum Compass Alex Sushkov is updating an old technology with new quantum tricks in hopes of sensing the magnetic...
10 months ago
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He Seeks Mystery Magnetic Fields With His Quantum Compass

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10 months ago
Alex Sushkov is updating an old technology with new quantum tricks in hopes of sensing the magnetic influence of dark matter. The post He Seeks Mystery Magnetic Fields With His Quantum Compass first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
The AI Pioneer With Provocative Plans for Humanity While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of...
3 months ago
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The AI Pioneer With Provocative Plans for Humanity

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3 months ago
While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of artificial intelligence to improve lives. The post The AI Pioneer With Provocative Plans for Humanity first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Blog - Practical...
How Bridge Engineers Design Against Ship Collisions [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On March 26, 2024 (just a few...
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How Bridge Engineers Design Against Ship Collisions

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10 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On March 26, 2024 (just a few weeks ago, if you're watching this as it comes out), a large container ship struck one of the main support piers of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsing...
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Math Is Still...
Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic...
11 months ago
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Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare

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11 months ago
A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness. The post Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness,...
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Eukaryote Writes...
Book Review: Cuisine and Empire Things people nigh-universally like to eat: salt, fat, sugar, starch, sauces, meat, drugs...
a year ago
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Book Review: Cuisine and Empire

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a year ago
Things people nigh-universally like to eat: salt, fat, sugar, starch, sauces, meat, drugs...
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Math Is Still...
Will Better Superconductors Transform the World? Scientists are pursuing materials that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency under ambient...
10 months ago
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Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?

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10 months ago
Scientists are pursuing materials that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency under ambient conditions. In this episode, the physicist Siddharth Shanker Saxena tells co-host Janna Levin about what makes this hunt so difficult and consequential. The post Will...
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The Works in...
How to start an advance market commitment A practical guide from the founders of Frontier
10 months ago
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How to start an advance market commitment

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10 months ago
A practical guide from the founders of Frontier
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Math Is Still...
With Fifth Busy Beaver, Researchers Approach Computation’s Limits After decades of uncertainty, a motley team of programmers has proved precisely how complicated...
9 months ago
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With Fifth Busy Beaver, Researchers Approach Computation’s Limits

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9 months ago
After decades of uncertainty, a motley team of programmers has proved precisely how complicated simple computer programs can get. The post With Fifth Busy Beaver, Researchers Approach Computation’s Limits first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
Neuralink Implants Chip in Human Elon Musk has announced that his company, Neuralink, has implanted their first wireless computer...
a year ago
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Neuralink Implants Chip in Human

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a year ago
Elon Musk has announced that his company, Neuralink, has implanted their first wireless computer chip into a human. The chip, which they plan on calling Telepathy (not sure how I feel about that) connects with 64 thin hair-like electrodes, is battery powered and can be recharged...
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Wanderingspace
Eclipse 2024 from Space https://twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGuy
11 months ago
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Eclipse 2024 from Space

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11 months ago
https://twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGuy
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Math Is Still...
Vacuum of Space to Decay Sooner Than Expected (but Still Not Soon) One of the quantum fields that fills the universe is special because its default value seems poised...
8 months ago
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Vacuum of Space to Decay Sooner Than Expected (but Still Not Soon)

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8 months ago
One of the quantum fields that fills the universe is special because its default value seems poised to eventually change, changing everything. The post Vacuum of Space to Decay Sooner Than Expected (but Still Not Soon) first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
Will Hydrogen BEV Hybrids Be A Thing? I recently recorded a YouTube video on the notion of hydrogen fuel cell cars (it will be posted...
a year ago
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Will Hydrogen BEV Hybrids Be A Thing?

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a year ago
I recently recorded a YouTube video on the notion of hydrogen fuel cell cars (it will be posted soon, and I will add the link when it’s up). One question I did not get into in the video, but which is an interesting thought experiment, is hydrogen – plug-in battery hybrid...
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Drew Ex Machina
Drew Ex Machina 10th Anniversary: Top Ten Posts I find it difficult to believe but, it was ten years ago today that I posted the first article on my...
a year ago
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Drew Ex Machina 10th Anniversary: Top Ten Posts

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a year ago
I find it difficult to believe but, it was ten years ago today that I posted the first article on my then-new website, Drew Ex Machina. […]
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Math Is Still...
A Plan to Address the World’s Challenges With Math Minhyong Kim is leading a new initiative called Mathematics for Humanity that encourages...
a year ago
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A Plan to Address the World’s Challenges With Math

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Minhyong Kim is leading a new initiative called Mathematics for Humanity that encourages mathematicians to apply their skills to solving social problems. The post A Plan to Address the World’s Challenges With Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Blog - Practical...
When Natural Gas Had No Smell [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Excitement and hope permeated...
8 months ago
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When Natural Gas Had No Smell

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8 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Excitement and hope permeated the crowds gathered in a dusty farm carved from the piney woods in east Texas. The rumor was that Columbus Joiner had struck oil. At 70 years old, Joiner had already won and lost...
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IEEE Spectrum
50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2 For more than 50 years, Deep Space Station 43 has been an invaluable tool for space probes as they...
11 months ago
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50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2

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11 months ago
For more than 50 years, Deep Space Station 43 has been an invaluable tool for space probes as they explore our solar system and push into the beyond. The DSS-43 radio antenna, located at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, near Canberra, Australia, keeps open the line...
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Quantum Frontiers
Colliding the familiar and the anti-familiar at CERN toise me at CERN was a box of chocolates. CERN is a multinational particle-physics collaboration....
a year ago
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Colliding the familiar and the anti-familiar at CERN

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a year ago
toise me at CERN was a box of chocolates. CERN is a multinational particle-physics collaboration. Based in Geneva, CERN is famous for having “the world’s largest and most powerful accelerator,” according to its website. So a physicist will take for … Continue reading →
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NeuroLogica Blog
Washington Post on Past Lives Generally speaking the mainstream media does a terrible job of reporting anything in the realm of...
10 months ago
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Washington Post on Past Lives

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10 months ago
Generally speaking the mainstream media does a terrible job of reporting anything in the realm of pseudoscience or the paranormal. The Washington Post’s recent article on children who apparently remember their past lives is no exception. Journalists generally don’t have the...
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Beautiful Public...
Visualizing Ship Movements with AIS Data Explore the beautiful, intricate paths of ships over a year—tracked from America's busiest ports to...
6 months ago
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Visualizing Ship Movements with AIS Data

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6 months ago
Explore the beautiful, intricate paths of ships over a year—tracked from America's busiest ports to the open ocean via AIS marine tracking data.
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The Works in...
How to write for Works in Progress We're looking for new authors and article pitches.
8 months ago
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How to write for Works in Progress

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8 months ago
We're looking for new authors and article pitches.
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The Works in...
Getting people to donate their organs Too few people donate their organs, dead or alive. How can we make it easier?
12 months ago
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Getting people to donate their organs

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12 months ago
Too few people donate their organs, dead or alive. How can we make it easier?
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IEEE Spectrum
How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century In the summer of 1945, Robert J. Oppenheimer and other key members of the Manhattan Project gathered...
9 months ago
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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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9 months ago
In the summer of 1945, Robert J. Oppenheimer and other key members of the Manhattan Project gathered in New Mexico to witness the first atomic bomb test. Among the observers was Vannevar Bush, who had overseen the Manhattan Project and served as the sole liaison to U.S. President...
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Math Is Still...
In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the...
a year ago
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In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death

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a year ago
The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the second law of quantum complexity. The post In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Works in...
What did Henry George think about cities? Solving the terrible urban conditions of the 1800s by abolishing cities
10 months ago
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What did Henry George think about cities?

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10 months ago
Solving the terrible urban conditions of the 1800s by abolishing cities
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Math Is Still...
Can Information Escape a Black Hole? Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can be exceptions....
11 months ago
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Can Information Escape a Black Hole?

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11 months ago
Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can be exceptions. The theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind speaks with co-host Janna Levin about the black hole information paradox and how it has propelled modern physics. The post Can...
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IEEE Spectrum
Edith Clarke: Architect of Modern Power Distribution Edith Clarke was a powerhouse in practically every sense of the word. From the start of her career...
8 months ago
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Edith Clarke: Architect of Modern Power Distribution

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8 months ago
Edith Clarke was a powerhouse in practically every sense of the word. From the start of her career at General Electric in 1922, she was determined to develop stable, more reliable power grids. During her first years at GE she invented what came to be known as the Clarke...
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Quantum Frontiers
Winners of the Quantum-Steampunk Short-Story Contest During the past seven months, I’ve steamed across the Atlantic, sailed in a flying castle,...
a year ago
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Winners of the Quantum-Steampunk Short-Story Contest

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a year ago
During the past seven months, I’ve steamed across the Atlantic, sailed in a flying castle, teleported across the globe, and shuttled forward and backward in time. Literarily, not literally—the Quantum-Steampunk Short-Story Contest began welcoming submissions in October 2022. We...
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The Works in...
Britain’s interwar apartment boom A decade of Art Deco densification
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Britain’s interwar apartment boom

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a year ago
A decade of Art Deco densification
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Blog - Practical...
Is the World Really Running Out of Sand? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you have to know the answer...
6 months ago
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Is the World Really Running Out of Sand?

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6 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you have to know the answer right away, it’s no; or at least, my goal with this video is to convince you that the world is not running out of sand. But if it were that simple, I wouldn’t be here (right?) and...
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Math Is Still...
A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly...
a year ago
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A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation

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a year ago
A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly and potentially split species. The post A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its...
over a year ago
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Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way

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There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its last surviving remnants. The post Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Bartosz Ciechanowski
Airfoil The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many...
a year ago
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Airfoil

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a year ago
The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventually succeeded in achieving that goal. These days we take air transportation for granted, but the physics of flight can still be puzzling. In this article we’ll...
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Math Is Still...
The New Math of How Large-Scale Order Emerges The puzzle of emergence asks how regularities emerge on macro scales out of uncountable constituent...
9 months ago
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The New Math of How Large-Scale Order Emerges

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9 months ago
The puzzle of emergence asks how regularities emerge on macro scales out of uncountable constituent parts. A new framework has researchers hopeful that a solution is near. The post The New Math of How Large-Scale Order Emerges first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Works in...
Issue 11: Nuclear sandboxes Plus: Why Britain can’t seem to fix its housing market, gene-edited super-rice, and one weird trick...
a year ago
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Issue 11: Nuclear sandboxes

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a year ago
Plus: Why Britain can’t seem to fix its housing market, gene-edited super-rice, and one weird trick to reverse climate change.
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The Works in...
Heat waves Why a hotter world might be a more dangerous, violent, and less productive one
8 months ago
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Heat waves

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8 months ago
Why a hotter world might be a more dangerous, violent, and less productive one
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Blog - Practical...
Why Bridges Need Sensors (and other structures too) [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Almost immediately after I...
a year ago
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Why Bridges Need Sensors (and other structures too)

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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Almost immediately after I started making videos about engineering, people started asking me to play video games on the channel. Apparently there’s roughly a billion people who watch online gaming these days,...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Bill Gates Backs Nuclear No one ever said that nuclear power is simple or easy. It’s a tricky and expensive technology. But...
9 months ago
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Bill Gates Backs Nuclear

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9 months ago
No one ever said that nuclear power is simple or easy. It’s a tricky and expensive technology. But it also has tremendous potential to create large amounts of reliable green low carbon energy, and many believe that we cannot ignore this potential if we are going to tackle climate...
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Beautiful Public...
Here’s All the Rocks We Hauled Back From the Moon The 12 human beings who walked on the Moon collected, catalogued and returned 842 pounds of lunar...
a year ago
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Here’s All the Rocks We Hauled Back From the Moon

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a year ago
The 12 human beings who walked on the Moon collected, catalogued and returned 842 pounds of lunar rock and soil. Each sample has been meticulously documented in NASA's Lunar Sample Catalog.
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The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, October 2023 A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots...
a year ago
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What I’ve been reading, October 2023

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a year ago
A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots of Progress as a nonprofit organization, so I haven’t had as much time as I prefer for research and writing. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find...
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Inverted Passion
Not everything is physics The first book I ever read was The Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I liked it so much that...
7 months ago
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Not everything is physics

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7 months ago
The first book I ever read was The Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I liked it so much that I re-read it 8 times. As a young boy, the book had made a lasting impression on me, making me fall in love with ideas such as the arrow of time, black holes, entropy,… Read...
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Math Is Still...
Math That Goes On Forever but Never Repeats Simple math can help explain the complexities of the newly discovered aperiodic monotile. ...
a year ago
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Math That Goes On Forever but Never Repeats

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a year ago
Simple math can help explain the complexities of the newly discovered aperiodic monotile. The post Math That Goes On Forever but Never Repeats first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
Havana Syndrome Revisited Last month I wrote about Havana Syndrome, the claim that a number of American and Canadian diplomats...
10 months ago
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Havana Syndrome Revisited

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10 months ago
Last month I wrote about Havana Syndrome, the claim that a number of American and Canadian diplomats and military personnel were the targets of some sort of directed energy weapon attack causing symptoms of headache, disorientation, nausea, and sometimes associated with an...
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Blog - Practical...
This Bridge Should Have Been Closed Years Before It Collapsed [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On January 28, 2022, about an...
9 months ago
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This Bridge Should Have Been Closed Years Before It Collapsed

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9 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On January 28, 2022, about an hour before dawn, the four-lane Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, collapsed without warning. Five vehicles, including an articulating bus, fell with the bridge, and...
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NeuroLogica Blog
BBC Gets Into UFOs Paranormal phenomena tend to wax and wane in the public interest. Typically a generation will become...
9 months ago
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BBC Gets Into UFOs

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9 months ago
Paranormal phenomena tend to wax and wane in the public interest. Typically a generation will become fascinated with a topic, but eventually the novelty will wear thin and interest will fade. But the flame will be kept alive by the hardcore believers. Wait long enough, and...
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The Works in...
The road from serfdom Using opt-ins to reform Russia's backwards tsarist agricultural sector
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The road from serfdom

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a year ago
Using opt-ins to reform Russia's backwards tsarist agricultural sector
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Blog - Practical...
Why Are Texas Interchanges Texas So Tall? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Dallas High Five,...
7 months ago
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Why Are Texas Interchanges Texas So Tall?

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

7 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Dallas High Five, one of the tallest highway interchanges in the world. It gets its name from the fact that there are five different levels of roadways crossing each other in this one spot. In some...
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NeuroLogica Blog
New Generation of Electric Robots Boston Dynamics (now owned by Hyundai) has revealed its electric version of its Atlas robot. These...
11 months ago
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New Generation of Electric Robots

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11 months ago
Boston Dynamics (now owned by Hyundai) has revealed its electric version of its Atlas robot. These robot videos always look impressive, but at the very least we know that we are seeing the best take. We don’t know how many times the robot failed to get the one great video. There...
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Blog - Practical...
How Fish Survive Hydro Turbines [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Most of the largest dams in...
a year ago
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How Fish Survive Hydro Turbines

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Most of the largest dams in the US were built before we really understood the impacts they would have on river ecosystems. Or at least they were built before we were conscientious enough to weigh those impacts...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Weaponized Pedantry and Reverse Gish Gallop Have you ever been in a discussion where the person with whom you disagree dismisses your position...
a year ago
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Weaponized Pedantry and Reverse Gish Gallop

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a year ago
Have you ever been in a discussion where the person with whom you disagree dismisses your position because you got some tiny detail wrong or didn’t know the tiny detail? This is a common debating technique. For example, opponents of gun safety regulations will often use the...
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Blog - Practical...
Why There's a Legal Price for a Human Life [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] One of the very first...
a year ago
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Why There's a Legal Price for a Human Life

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] One of the very first documented engineering disasters happened in 27 AD in the early days of the Roman Empire. A freed slave named Atilius built a wooden amphitheater in a town called Fidenae outside of Rome....
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NeuroLogica Blog
New Platform for Timed Drug Release This is one of those technologies that most people probably never think about, but could potentially...
a year ago
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New Platform for Timed Drug Release

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a year ago
This is one of those technologies that most people probably never think about, but could potentially have a significant impact on our lives – timed drug release. The concept is nothing new, but there is a lot of room for improvement on current technologies. We already have...
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The Roots of...
Event, Feb 29: “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” in Boston and on Zoom On Thursday, February 29, I’ll be giving my talk “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” to the New...
a year ago
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Event, Feb 29: “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” in Boston and on Zoom

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a year ago
On Thursday, February 29, I’ll be giving my talk “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” to the New England Legal Foundation, for their Economic Liberty Speaker Series. The talk will be held over breakfast at NELF’s offices in Boston, and will also be livestreamed over Zoom. See...
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Math Is Still...
Elliptic Curves Yield Their Secrets in a New Number System Ana Caraiani and James Newton have extended an important result in number theory to the imaginary...
a year ago
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Elliptic Curves Yield Their Secrets in a New Number System

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a year ago
Ana Caraiani and James Newton have extended an important result in number theory to the imaginary realm. The post Elliptic Curves Yield Their Secrets in a New Number System first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance On Old Problem Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are...
12 months ago
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Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance On Old Problem

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

12 months ago
Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are all whole numbers. The post Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance On Old Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their Pasts In two landmark experiments, researchers used quantum processors to engineer exotic particles that...
a year ago
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Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their Pasts

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
In two landmark experiments, researchers used quantum processors to engineer exotic particles that have captivated physicists for decades. The work is a step toward crash-proof quantum computers. The post Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their Pasts...
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Math Is Still...
How Our Longest Nerve Orchestrates the Mind-Body Connection Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to...
7 months ago
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How Our Longest Nerve Orchestrates the Mind-Body Connection

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

7 months ago
Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of mind such as mood, pleasure and fear. The post How Our Longest Nerve Orchestrates the Mind-Body Connection first appeared on...
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The Works in...
Does higher density cause lower birth rates? Assessing one recent claim that it does
10 months ago
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Does higher density cause lower birth rates?

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10 months ago
Assessing one recent claim that it does
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Math Is Still...
The Year in Computer Science Researchers got a better look at chatbots’ thoughts, amateurs learned just how complicated simple...
3 months ago
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The Year in Computer Science

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3 months ago
Researchers got a better look at chatbots’ thoughts, amateurs learned just how complicated simple systems can be, and codes became expert self-fixers. The post The Year in Computer Science first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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IEEE Spectrum
The Battle for Better, Broader, More Inclusive AI AI’s inclusivity problem is no secret. According to the ACLU, AI systems can perpetuate housing...
a year ago
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The Battle for Better, Broader, More Inclusive AI

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a year ago
AI’s inclusivity problem is no secret. According to the ACLU, AI systems can perpetuate housing discrimination and bias in the justice system, among other harms. Bias in the data an AI model relies on is reproduced in its results. Large Language Models (LLMs) share this problem;...
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Math Is Still...
Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ Has Been Debunked It was intuitive, even obvious. It was also wrong. The post Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’...
4 months ago
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Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ Has Been Debunked

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

4 months ago
It was intuitive, even obvious. It was also wrong. The post Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ Has Been Debunked first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
Pleasure or Pain? He Maps the Neural Circuits That Decide. The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely...
11 months ago
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Pleasure or Pain? He Maps the Neural Circuits That Decide.

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11 months ago
The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely how much pleasure and pain animals experience during different forms of touch. The post Pleasure or Pain? He Maps the Neural Circuits That Decide. first appeared on...
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Articles - Chris...
Moved to tears 20 years ago, on January 15 2004, a little before 2 AM Pacific time, was the payoff. It was...
a year ago
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Moved to tears

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a year ago
20 years ago, on January 15 2004, a little before 2 AM Pacific time, was the payoff. It was cause for celebration. But first, I wept.
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symmetry magazine
Physics fashion and collider couture Symmetry is back with more physics-themed Halloween costumes.
a year ago
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Physics fashion and collider couture

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a year ago
Symmetry is back with more physics-themed Halloween costumes.
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Blog - Practical...
Why Engineers Can't Control Rivers [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Old River Control...
a year ago
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Why Engineers Can't Control Rivers

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Old River Control Structure, a relatively innocuous complex of floodgates and levees off the Mississippi River in central Louisiana. It was built in the 1950s to solve a serious problem. Typically...
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Confessions of a...
Cottesloe Fish Habitat Protection Area Today I am teaching my first tutorial in the second year unit ‘Marine Systems‘, which will introduce...
over a year ago
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Cottesloe Fish Habitat Protection Area

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over a year ago
Today I am teaching my first tutorial in the second year unit ‘Marine Systems‘, which will introduce students to their major project, which is centred around a field trip to the Cottelsoe Fish Habitat Protection Area (CFHPA).  I’m pretty excited to introduce a few of my new ideas...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Things I’m watching in healthcare 2023 | Out-Of-Pocket it's been a weird year
a year ago
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Things I’m watching in healthcare 2023 | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
it's been a weird year
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NeuroLogica Blog
UFOs and SGU on John Oliver The most recent episode of John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, featured a discussion of the UFO...
11 months ago
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UFOs and SGU on John Oliver

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11 months ago
The most recent episode of John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, featured a discussion of the UFO phenomenon. I’m always interested, and often disappointed, in how the mainstream media portrays skeptical topics. One interesting addition here is that Oliver actually referenced an SGU...
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Beautiful Public...
14,000 Photos of Army Uniforms and Rations from the 70s and 80s An incredible archive of 14,000 photos of Army uniforms, military gear and rations from the 70s and...
4 months ago
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14,000 Photos of Army Uniforms and Rations from the 70s and 80s

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4 months ago
An incredible archive of 14,000 photos of Army uniforms, military gear and rations from the 70s and 80s.
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IEEE Spectrum
What If the Worst AI Fear Is AI Fear Itself? It’s been just about a year now—a nonprofit called the Future of Life Institute posted an open...
a year ago
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What If the Worst AI Fear Is AI Fear Itself?

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a year ago
It’s been just about a year now—a nonprofit called the Future of Life Institute posted an open letter reflecting people’s darkest fears about artificial intelligence. “Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,” it said. It called for a pause in...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Unifying Cognitive Biases Are you familiar with the “lumper vs splitter” debate? This refers to any situation in which there...
over a year ago
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Unifying Cognitive Biases

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over a year ago
Are you familiar with the “lumper vs splitter” debate? This refers to any situation in which there is some controversy over exactly how to categorize complex phenomena, specifically whether or not to favor the fewest categories based on similarities, or the greatest number of...
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Stephen Wolfram...
Foundations of Biological Evolution: More Results & More Surprises This is a follow-on to Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution...
3 months ago
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Foundations of Biological Evolution: More Results & More Surprises

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3 months ago
This is a follow-on to Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive Processes [May 3, 2024]. Even More from an Extremely Simple Model A few months ago I introduced an extremely simple “adaptive cellular automaton” model that...
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Quantum Frontiers
My favorite rocket scientist Whenever someone protests, “I’m not a rocket scientist,” I think of my friend Jamie Rankin. Jamie is...
8 months ago
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My favorite rocket scientist

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago
Whenever someone protests, “I’m not a rocket scientist,” I think of my friend Jamie Rankin. Jamie is a researcher at Princeton University, and she showed me her lab this June. When I first met Jamie, she was testing instruments to … Continue reading →
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IEEE Spectrum
A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea:...
11 months ago
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A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public? It was such a novel concept that when von Miller approached...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Why don’t healthcare companies say what they do? | Out-Of-Pocket And some tips to figure out what a company does
a year ago
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Why don’t healthcare companies say what they do? | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
And some tips to figure out what a company does
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NeuroLogica Blog
Non-Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation We are rapidly entering the era of neuromodulation – using electrical and magnetic fields in order...
10 months ago
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Non-Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
We are rapidly entering the era of neuromodulation – using electrical and magnetic fields in order to increase or decrease the activity of specific regions and circuits in the brain. Such treatments are already shown to be effective in treating some Parkinson’s symptoms,...
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The Works in...
Fixing retail with land value capture How to create beautiful shopping streets everywhere
9 months ago
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Fixing retail with land value capture

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9 months ago
How to create beautiful shopping streets everywhere
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Math Is Still...
In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain The reference frames from which observers view quantum events can themselves have multiple possible...
4 months ago
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In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

4 months ago
The reference frames from which observers view quantum events can themselves have multiple possible locations at once — an insight with potentially major ramifications. The post In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
New Proof Finds the ‘Ultimate Instability’ in a Solar System Model For the first time, mathematicians have proved that planetary orbits in a solar system will always...
a year ago
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New Proof Finds the ‘Ultimate Instability’ in a Solar System Model

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
For the first time, mathematicians have proved that planetary orbits in a solar system will always be unstable. The post New Proof Finds the ‘Ultimate Instability’ in a Solar System Model first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity As researchers race to cultivate more of the intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few cells...
a year ago
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Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
As researchers race to cultivate more of the intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few cells now growing in labs are giving us our best glimpses of the forerunners of all complex life. The post Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity first...
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brr
Mud Murdo The beautiful ambiance of a McMurdo summer.
over a year ago
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Mud Murdo

from brr [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
The beautiful ambiance of a McMurdo summer.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Concrete Battery I know it’s only been a couple of weeks since I wrote about cement, but now I need to write about...
9 months ago
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Concrete Battery

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
I know it’s only been a couple of weeks since I wrote about cement, but now I need to write about concrete, or potential version of concrete that is able to function as a battery. If we can get the technology to work this could an extremely useful item for a future of green...
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The Works in...
The duplication crisis: the other replication crisis How bad publishing incentives hinder long-term thinking in computational biology research
6 months ago
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The duplication crisis: the other replication crisis

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
How bad publishing incentives hinder long-term thinking in computational biology research
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Math Is Still...
A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of...
a year ago
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A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of “Kirby’s list” — a compendium of the most important unsolved problems in the field. The post A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
Trust in New Technology In an optimally rational person, what should govern their perception of risk? Of course, people are...
8 months ago
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Trust in New Technology

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8 months ago
In an optimally rational person, what should govern their perception of risk? Of course, people are generally not “optimally rational”. It’s therefore an interesting thought experiment – what would be optimal, and how does that differ from how people actually assess risk? Risk is...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Healthcare Ideas That Look Good But Are Bad | Out-Of-Pocket clinical trial matching, "find a specialist", and more
11 months ago
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Healthcare Ideas That Look Good But Are Bad | Out-Of-Pocket

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11 months ago
clinical trial matching, "find a specialist", and more
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
OOP Slack final reminder | Out-Of-Pocket it's the final countdownnnnn
a year ago
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OOP Slack final reminder | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
it's the final countdownnnnn
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Stephen Wolfram...
Nestedly Recursive Functions Yet Another Ruliological Surprise Integers. Addition. Subtraction. Maybe multiplication. Surely...
6 months ago
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Nestedly Recursive Functions

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
Yet Another Ruliological Surprise Integers. Addition. Subtraction. Maybe multiplication. Surely that’s not enough to be able to generate any serious complexity. In the early 1980s I had made the very surprising discovery that very simple programs based on cellular automata could...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Intuitive and Analytical Thinking Here is a relatively simple math problem:  A bat and a ball cost $1.10 combined. The bat costs $1...
a year ago
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Intuitive and Analytical Thinking

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Here is a relatively simple math problem:  A bat and a ball cost $1.10 combined. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? (I will provide the answer below the fold.) This problem is the basis of a large psychological literature on thinking systems in the...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Is the AI Singularity Coming? Like it or not, we are living in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Recent advances in large...
a year ago
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Is the AI Singularity Coming?

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Like it or not, we are living in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Recent advances in large language models, like ChatGPT, have helped put advanced AI in the hands of the average person, who now has a much better sense of how powerful these AI applications can be (and...
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symmetry magazine
Whatever happened to the theory of everything? A theory of everything was all the rage in the 1980s. So where did it go? It is...
a year ago
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Whatever happened to the theory of everything?

from symmetry magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
A theory of everything was all the rage in the 1980s. So where did it go? It is only the optimists who achieve anything in this world—theorist John Ellis once read this adage on a candy wrapper. It stuck with him, so much so that in 1986 he referenced this...
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Math Is Still...
How Is Science Even Possible? How are scientists able to crack fundamental questions about nature and life? How does math make the...
9 months ago
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How Is Science Even Possible?

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
How are scientists able to crack fundamental questions about nature and life? How does math make the complex cosmos understandable? In this episode, the physicist Nigel Goldenfeld and co-host Steven Strogatz explore the deep foundations of the scientific process. The...
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Quantum Frontiers
What geckos have to do with quantum computing When my brother and I were little, we sometimes played video games on weekend mornings, before our...
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What geckos have to do with quantum computing

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
When my brother and I were little, we sometimes played video games on weekend mornings, before our parents woke up. We owned a 3DO console, which ran the game Gex. Gex is named after its main character, a gecko. Stepping … Continue reading →
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Beautiful Public...
The Mirror Fusion Test Facility A decade-long effort to build a machine to unlock the promise of nuclear fusion fell victim to...
over a year ago
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The Mirror Fusion Test Facility

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
A decade-long effort to build a machine to unlock the promise of nuclear fusion fell victim to budget constraints and competing science, and was shut down the day it was dedicated. It was never turned on.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Man Gets Pig Kidney Transplant On March 16 surgeons transplanted a kidney taken from a pig into a human recipient, Rick Slayman. So...
a year ago
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Man Gets Pig Kidney Transplant

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
On March 16 surgeons transplanted a kidney taken from a pig into a human recipient, Rick Slayman. So far the transplant is a success, but of course the real test will be how well the kidney functions and for how long. This is the first time such a transplant has been done into a...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Boeing Starliner Launches Soon If all goes well, Boeing’s Starliner capsule will launch on Monday May 6th with two crew members...
11 months ago
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Boeing Starliner Launches Soon

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
If all goes well, Boeing’s Starliner capsule will launch on Monday May 6th with two crew members aboard, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who will be spending a week aboard the ISS. This is the last (hopefully) test of the new capsule, and if successful it will become officially...
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Math Is Still...
What Is the Nature of Time? Time is all around us: in the language we use, in the memories we revisit and in our predictions of...
a year ago
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What Is the Nature of Time?

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Time is all around us: in the language we use, in the memories we revisit and in our predictions of the future. But what exactly is it? The physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek joins Steve Strogatz to discuss the fundamental hallmarks of time. The post What Is...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Light and Distance in an Expanding Universe Commenter Lal asks in the topic suggestions: “Media reports that light has been travelling from that...
9 months ago
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Light and Distance in an Expanding Universe

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
Commenter Lal asks in the topic suggestions: “Media reports that light has been travelling from that distant galaxy for 13 and a half billion years, which I assume is true, but this neither represents the original nor the current distance to that galaxy in terms of light years. I...
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Math Is Still...
How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to...
11 months ago
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How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems. The post How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
Moon Spacesuit Prototype Unveiled Good spacesuits are deceptively difficult to design, even with today’s technology. NASA is planning...
over a year ago
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Moon Spacesuit Prototype Unveiled

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Good spacesuits are deceptively difficult to design, even with today’s technology. NASA is planning to return to the moon in 2025 (if all goes well) but the spacesuit the astronauts will wear is one piece to the puzzle they have not completed yet (the other being the lunar...
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The Works in...
The Power of the Earth On the future of geothermal energy
a year ago
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The Power of the Earth

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
On the future of geothermal energy
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Clinical Pharmacists, Generative AI, and InpharmD | Out-Of-Pocket Going under the hood of a generative AI product
a year ago
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Clinical Pharmacists, Generative AI, and InpharmD | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Going under the hood of a generative AI product
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IEEE Spectrum
100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born Happy birthday, IBM! You’re 100 years old! Or are you? It’s true that the businesses that formed IBM...
a year ago
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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Happy birthday, IBM! You’re 100 years old! Or are you? It’s true that the businesses that formed IBM began in the late 1800s. But it’s also true that a birth occurred in February 1924, with the renaming of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. as the International Business...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
How Data Transformed Small Group Underwriting | Out-Of-Pocket Paper forms be gone, now we anonymize and risk it all (literally).
8 months ago
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How Data Transformed Small Group Underwriting | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago
Paper forms be gone, now we anonymize and risk it all (literally).
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NeuroLogica Blog
Evidence Suggests Lunar Cave Astronomers have discovered multiple “pits” on the surface of the moon – these look superficially...
8 months ago
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Evidence Suggests Lunar Cave

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago
Astronomers have discovered multiple “pits” on the surface of the moon – these look superficially like craters, but on closer inspection are actually vertical pits. There has been considerable speculation that these pits might be cave openings. Now, an analysis of data from the...
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Drew Ex Machina
Accurate Characterization of 3D Winds Using Stereographic Observations from the Hurricane Hunter... The teams at Tropical Weather Analytics (TWA) and Canada Weather Analytics (CWA), where this author...
a year ago
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Accurate Characterization of 3D Winds Using Stereographic Observations from the Hurricane Hunter Satellites

from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
The teams at Tropical Weather Analytics (TWA) and Canada Weather Analytics (CWA), where this author is the Chief Scientist, had the honor of having our abstract […]
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NeuroLogica Blog
Some Battery News I have been following battery technology pretty closely, as this is a key technology for the...
a year ago
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Some Battery News

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
I have been following battery technology pretty closely, as this is a key technology for the transition to green energy. The most obvious application is in battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The second most obvious application is in grid storage. But also there are all the...
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Quantum Frontiers
To thermalize, or not to thermalize, that is the question. If Hamlet had been a system of noncommuting charges, his famous soliloquy may have gone like this…...
11 months ago
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To thermalize, or not to thermalize, that is the question.

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
If Hamlet had been a system of noncommuting charges, his famous soliloquy may have gone like this… To thermalize, or not to thermalize, that is the question:Whether ’tis more natural for the system to sufferThe large entanglement of thermalizing dynamics,Or … Continue reading →
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Eukaryote Writes...
Eukaryote in Asterisk Magazine + New Patreon Per-post setup Eukaryote elsewhere I have an article in the latest issue of Asterisk Magazine. After you get really...
a year ago
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Eukaryote in Asterisk Magazine + New Patreon Per-post setup

from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Eukaryote elsewhere I have an article in the latest issue of Asterisk Magazine. After you get really deep into the weeds of invertebrate sentience and fish welfare and the scale of factory farming, what do you do with that information vis-a-vis what you feel comfortable eating?...
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The Roots of...
Quote quiz: “drifting into dependence” Quote quiz: who said this? (No fair looking it up). I have modified the original quotation slightly,...
a year ago
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Quote quiz: “drifting into dependence”

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Quote quiz: who said this? (No fair looking it up). I have modified the original quotation slightly, by making a handful of word substitutions to bring it up to date: It might be argued that the human race would never be foolish enough to hand over all power to AI. But we are...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Making Fuel from Sunshine When it comes to big problems it’s generally a good idea to remember some basic principles. One is...
a year ago
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Making Fuel from Sunshine

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
When it comes to big problems it’s generally a good idea to remember some basic principles. One is that there is no free lunch. This is a cliche because it’s true. Another way to put this is – there are no solutions, only trade offs. Sometimes there is a genuine advance that does...
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Eukaryote Writes...
Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11 This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at...
a year ago
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Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11

from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at great effort and expense during the 1969 Apollo landing.
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Blog - Practical...
How French Drains Work [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In February of 2017, one of...
7 months ago
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How French Drains Work

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

7 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In February of 2017, one of the largest spillways in the world, the one at Oroville Dam in northern California, was severely damaged during releases from heavy rain. You might remember this. I made a video...
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Math Is Still...
How a NASA Probe Solved a Scorching Solar Mystery The outer layers of the sun’s atmosphere are a blistering million degrees hotter than its surface....
11 months ago
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How a NASA Probe Solved a Scorching Solar Mystery

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
The outer layers of the sun’s atmosphere are a blistering million degrees hotter than its surface. The hidden culprit? Magnetic activity. The post How a NASA Probe Solved a Scorching Solar Mystery first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
New Type of Black Hole Discovered ESA’s Gaia orbital telescope has recently discovered two new black holes. This, in itself, is not...
a year ago
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New Type of Black Hole Discovered

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
ESA’s Gaia orbital telescope has recently discovered two new black holes. This, in itself, is not surprising, as that is Gaia’s mission – to precisely map the three-dimensional position of two billion objects in our galaxy, using three separate instruments. The process is called...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Eclipse 2024 I am currently in Dallas Texas waiting to see, hopefully, the 2024 total solar eclipse. This would...
11 months ago
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Eclipse 2024

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
I am currently in Dallas Texas waiting to see, hopefully, the 2024 total solar eclipse. This would be my first total eclipse, and everything I have heard indicates that it is an incredible experience. Unfortunately, the weather calls for some clouds, although forecasts have been...
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Blog - Practical...
Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On April 20, 2023, SpaceX...
a year ago
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Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad?

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On April 20, 2023, SpaceX launched it’s first orbital test flight of its Starship spacecraft from Boca Chica on the gulf coast of Texas. You probably saw this, if not live, at least in the stunning videos that...
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Math Is Still...
Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize The development of attosecond pulses of light allowed researchers to explore the frame-by-frame...
a year ago
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Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
The development of attosecond pulses of light allowed researchers to explore the frame-by-frame movement of electrons. The post Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
Some Thoughts on Aging If either of the two presumptive nominees for the major political parties in the US are elected in...
8 months ago
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Some Thoughts on Aging

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago
If either of the two presumptive nominees for the major political parties in the US are elected in November they will be the oldest person ever to be inaugerated as president. What implications does this have? As a neurologist who sees patients every workday of various ages,...
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The Works in...
How Israel turned homeowners into YIMBYs A housing success story
11 months ago
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How Israel turned homeowners into YIMBYs

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
A housing success story
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Quantum Frontiers
Quantum Frontiers salutes an English teacher If I ever mention a crazy high-school English teacher to you, I might be referring to Mr. Lukacs....
9 months ago
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Quantum Frontiers salutes an English teacher

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
If I ever mention a crazy high-school English teacher to you, I might be referring to Mr. Lukacs. One morning, before the first bell rang, I found him wandering among the lockers, wearing a white beard and a mischievous grin. … Continue reading →
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Quantum Frontiers
Building a Visceral Understanding of Quantum Phenomena A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the...
7 months ago
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Building a Visceral Understanding of Quantum Phenomena

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

7 months ago
A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the early 90’s. For those not in the know, this is a physics-based puzzle game about building Rube Goldberg style contraptions to achieve … Continue reading →
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Math Is Still...
The Electron Is So Round That It’s Ruling Out Potential New Particles If the electron’s charge wasn’t perfectly round, it could reveal the existence of hidden particles....
a year ago
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The Electron Is So Round That It’s Ruling Out Potential New Particles

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
If the electron’s charge wasn’t perfectly round, it could reveal the existence of hidden particles. A new measurement approaches perfection. The post The Electron Is So Round That It’s Ruling Out Potential New Particles first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra...
11 months ago
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AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe. The post AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless...
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The Works in...
Growing Forests As countries develop, deforestation drops
a year ago
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Growing Forests

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
As countries develop, deforestation drops
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symmetry magazine
From inventor to entrepreneur Creating a startup to commercialize technology developed during research is a risky road for...
a year ago
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From inventor to entrepreneur

from symmetry magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Creating a startup to commercialize technology developed during research is a risky road for physicists and engineers, but the help of experts can improve their chances.
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Blog - Practical...
The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Wallis Annenberg...
3 months ago
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The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

3 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing under construction over the 101 just outside Los Angeles, California. When it’s finished in a few years, it will be the largest wildlife crossing (*of its kind) on...
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Math Is Still...
Tracing the Hidden Hand of Magnetism in the Galaxy Susan Clark is helping to unravel the mysterious workings of the Milky Way’s magnetic field, a...
9 months ago
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Tracing the Hidden Hand of Magnetism in the Galaxy

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
Susan Clark is helping to unravel the mysterious workings of the Milky Way’s magnetic field, a critical missing piece of the galactic puzzle. The post Tracing the Hidden Hand of Magnetism in the Galaxy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
What to Make of Havana Syndrome I have not written before about Havana Syndrome, mostly because I have not been able to come to any...
12 months ago
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What to Make of Havana Syndrome

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

12 months ago
I have not written before about Havana Syndrome, mostly because I have not been able to come to any strong conclusions about it. In 2016 there was a cluster of strange neurological symptoms among people working at the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba. They would suddenly experience...
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Andrew Fraknoi –...
Good Meteor Shower Coming August 11-12 The Perseid Meteor Shower is one of the best of the year for the untrained observer The post Good...
8 months ago
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Good Meteor Shower Coming August 11-12

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago
The Perseid Meteor Shower is one of the best of the year for the untrained observer The post Good Meteor Shower Coming August 11-12 appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Transforming Healthcare Data with Tuva Health | Out-Of-Pocket The nitty, gritty, and shitty of working with health data
a year ago
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Transforming Healthcare Data with Tuva Health | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
The nitty, gritty, and shitty of working with health data
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Wanderingspace
New View of IO from JUNO! From processor Ted Styrk, “The Juno Jupiter orbiter flew by Io, Jupiter's super-volcanic moon, on...
a year ago
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New View of IO from JUNO!

from Wanderingspace [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
From processor Ted Styrk, “The Juno Jupiter orbiter flew by Io, Jupiter's super-volcanic moon, on May 16, returning arguably the best imagery of the moon since the Galileo Orbiter around the beginning of this century. Definitely the best since New Horizons in 2006.”
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some Common Mistakes to Avoid When Pitching Angels | Out-Of-Pocket With some real decks and emails!
a year ago
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Some Common Mistakes to Avoid When Pitching Angels | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
With some real decks and emails!
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The Works in...
Issue 14: A peasant surprise Plus: Giving yourself the Zika virus, cut-and-cover railway tunnels, and more reasons to donate your...
a year ago
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Issue 14: A peasant surprise

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Plus: Giving yourself the Zika virus, cut-and-cover railway tunnels, and more reasons to donate your organs.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Harvesting Energy from Water Vapor I did not plan to write yet another post about energy, but this popped up and I had to write about...
a year ago
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Harvesting Energy from Water Vapor

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
I did not plan to write yet another post about energy, but this popped up and I had to write about it. UMASS researchers have produced a device that generates electricity by harvesting charge from water vapor. They write: The common feature of these materials is that they are...
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Blog - Practical...
Why Rivers Move [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is a map of the...
over a year ago
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Why Rivers Move

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is a map of the Mississippi River drafted by legendary geologist Harold Fisk. It’s part of a fairly unassuming geological report that he wrote in 1944 for Army Corps of Engineers, but the maps he produced...
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Blog - Practical...
What’s the Deal with Base Plates? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] A lot of engineering focuses...
3 months ago
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What’s the Deal with Base Plates?

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

3 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] A lot of engineering focuses on structural members. How wide is this beam? How tall is this column? But some of the most important engineering decisions are in how to connect those members together. Take a...
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Eukaryote Writes...
Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not? If a fatal neurological virus were spreading across deer in the US, and showed up in cooked infected...
a year ago
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Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not?

from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
If a fatal neurological virus were spreading across deer in the US, and showed up in cooked infected meat, my default assumption would be “we're in danger.” But a prion isn’t a virus. Why does that matter?
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Blog - Practical...
Why Locomotives Don't Have Tires [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Formula 1 is, by many...
a year ago
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Why Locomotives Don't Have Tires

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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Formula 1 is, by many accounts, the pinnacle of car racing. F1 cars are among the fastest in the world, particularly around the tight corners of the various paved tracks across the globe. Drivers can experience...
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How To Install a Pipeline Under a Railroad [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Union Pacific...
a year ago
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How To Install a Pipeline Under a Railroad

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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Union Pacific Railroad’s Austin Subdivision in central Texas. It’s a busy corridor that moves both freight and passengers north and south between Austin and San Antonio… But it’s mostly freight....
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Neolithic Revolution What was the greatest invention of human civilization? Arguably it was agriculture, which allowed...
8 months ago
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The Neolithic Revolution

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8 months ago
What was the greatest invention of human civilization? Arguably it was agriculture, which allowed for civilization itself. Prior to agriculture humans were some combination of hunters, gatherers, scavengers, and fishers. We lived off the land, which was a full-time job. Many...
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The Roots of...
Video: Intro to progress studies at Learning Night Boston I got invited to speak at Learning Night Boston and give an intro to progress studies: why study...
a year ago
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Video: Intro to progress studies at Learning Night Boston

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a year ago
I got invited to speak at Learning Night Boston and give an intro to progress studies: why study progress, and why do we need a new philosophy of progress? There are then a few minutes of Q&A. (It was in a bar and the audio quality is poor, sorry.)
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Clickbait and Misinformation Which is worse – clickbaity headlines for news articles that are factually correct, but may be...
10 months ago
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Clickbait and Misinformation

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10 months ago
Which is worse – clickbaity headlines for news articles that are factually correct, but may be playing up a sensational angle, or straight-up misinformation? It depends on what you mean by “worse”. A new study tries to address this information, with some interesting findings....
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The Potential of AI + CRISPR In my book, which I will now shamelessly promote – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors...
6 months ago
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The Potential of AI + CRISPR

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6 months ago
In my book, which I will now shamelessly promote – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors and I discuss the incredible potential of information-based technologies. As we increasingly transition to digital technology, we can leverage the increasing power of computer...
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Math Is Still...
How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number Useful mathematical concepts, like the number line, can linger for millennia before they are...
9 months ago
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How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number

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9 months ago
Useful mathematical concepts, like the number line, can linger for millennia before they are rigorously defined. The post How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force...
a year ago
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A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus

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a year ago
By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons. The post A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Out-Of-Pocket’s 2025 Predictions | Out-Of-Pocket I’m like 50% right every year, I just never know which 50%
3 months ago
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Out-Of-Pocket’s 2025 Predictions | Out-Of-Pocket

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3 months ago
I’m like 50% right every year, I just never know which 50%
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Math Is Still...
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that...
5 months ago
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Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

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5 months ago
Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today. The post Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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symmetry magazine
Searching for the matter that hides its shine Just because matter is visible doesn’t mean it’s easy to see.
a year ago
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Searching for the matter that hides its shine

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a year ago
Just because matter is visible doesn’t mean it’s easy to see.
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IEEE Spectrum
A Brief History of the Office Cubicle Robert Propst, a designer at the Herman Miller furniture company. Four years earlier, he had...
a year ago
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A Brief History of the Office Cubicle

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a year ago
Robert Propst, a designer at the Herman Miller furniture company. Four years earlier, he had proposed a radical alternative to the office bullpen: the Action Office. He envisioned it as a holistic and integrated system designed to increase worker efficiency while providing an...
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The Works in...
Lost Science When discoveries are forgotten and then found
a year ago
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Lost Science

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a year ago
When discoveries are forgotten and then found
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NeuroLogica Blog
Being Trans Is Not A Mental Illness On the current episode of the SGU, because it is pride month, we expressed our general support for...
a year ago
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Being Trans Is Not A Mental Illness

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a year ago
On the current episode of the SGU, because it is pride month, we expressed our general support for the LGBTQ community. I also opined about how important it is to respect individual liberty, the freedom to simply live your authentic life as you choose, and how ironic it is that...
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Math Is Still...
How America’s Fastest Swimmers Use Math to Win Gold Number theorist Ken Ono is teaching Olympians to swim more efficiently. The post How...
8 months ago
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How America’s Fastest Swimmers Use Math to Win Gold

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago
Number theorist Ken Ono is teaching Olympians to swim more efficiently. The post How America’s Fastest Swimmers Use Math to Win Gold first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans Researchers uncover striking parallels in the ways that humans and machine learning models acquire...
a year ago
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Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans

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a year ago
Researchers uncover striking parallels in the ways that humans and machine learning models acquire language skills. The post Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
Evolution and Copy-Paste Errors Evolution deniers (I know there is a spectrum, but generally speaking) are terrible scientists and...
11 months ago
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Evolution and Copy-Paste Errors

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11 months ago
Evolution deniers (I know there is a spectrum, but generally speaking) are terrible scientists and logicians. The obvious reason is because they are committing the primary mortal sin of pseudoscience – working backwards from a desired conclusion rather than following evidence and...
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brr
Last Flight Out Good-byes, and the beginning of winter isolation.
over a year ago
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Last Flight Out

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over a year ago
Good-byes, and the beginning of winter isolation.
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Blog - Practical...
When Infrastructure Gets Hacked [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is a water tower, or as...
6 months ago
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When Infrastructure Gets Hacked

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6 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is a water tower, or as the pros would say, an elevated storage tank. Pretty common here in the US, especially in flatter areas where there’s no nearby hillside to build a ground-level tank. I have a whole...
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IEEE Spectrum
What Is an Electronic Sackbut? If you, like me, think of musical synthesizers as an artifact of 1970s rock and disco, then you,...
a year ago
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What Is an Electronic Sackbut?

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a year ago
If you, like me, think of musical synthesizers as an artifact of 1970s rock and disco, then you, like me, will be surprised to learn that the first electronic synthesizer predates those genres by several decades In 1945, Hugh Le Caine, a physicist at Canada’s National Research...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Everything Will Evaporate What will be the ultimate fate of our universe? There are a number of theories and possibilities,...
a year ago
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Everything Will Evaporate

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a year ago
What will be the ultimate fate of our universe? There are a number of theories and possibilities, but at present the most likely scenario seems to be that the universe will continue to expand, most mass will eventually find its way into a black hole, and those black holes will...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
How are hospitals actually organized | Out-Of-Pocket We’re gonna need a whiteboard for this one
2 months ago
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How are hospitals actually organized | Out-Of-Pocket

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2 months ago
We’re gonna need a whiteboard for this one
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Blog - Practical...
Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions: What Really Happened? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On September 13, 2018, a...
a year ago
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Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions: What Really Happened?

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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On September 13, 2018, a pipeline crew in the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts was hard at work replacing an aging cast iron natural gas line with a new polyethylene pipe. Located just north of Boston, the...
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Eukaryote Writes...
I got dysentery so you don’t have to On turning 30 in a human challenge trial ward.
5 months ago
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I got dysentery so you don’t have to

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5 months ago
On turning 30 in a human challenge trial ward.
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Math Is Still...
Computer Scientists Combine Two ‘Beautiful’ Proof Methods Three researchers have figured out how to craft a proof that spreads out information while keeping...
5 months ago
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Computer Scientists Combine Two ‘Beautiful’ Proof Methods

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
Three researchers have figured out how to craft a proof that spreads out information while keeping it perfectly secret. The post Computer Scientists Combine Two ‘Beautiful’ Proof Methods first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random Four mathematicians broke a 75-year-old record by finding a denser way to pack high-dimensional...
11 months ago
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To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
Four mathematicians broke a 75-year-old record by finding a denser way to pack high-dimensional spheres. The post To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
T-rex Had Lips One of the challenges of paleontology is that we are trying to infer and entire animal just from the...
over a year ago
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T-rex Had Lips

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over a year ago
One of the challenges of paleontology is that we are trying to infer and entire animal just from the hard parts that fossilize, mostly bones and teeth (and sometimes just teeth). But if we look at animals today there are a lot of details we could not guess from their bones alone...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Should Tech Companies Be Liable for Content The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is hearing a case that will have profound effects on social media – is...
over a year ago
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Should Tech Companies Be Liable for Content

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over a year ago
The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is hearing a case that will have profound effects on social media – is Google liable for a terrorist killing? The family of Nohemi Gonzalez is suing Google, because she was shot by an Islamic terrorist in 2015 and the family alleges this act was abetted...
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brr
Brr Wants A Job 8 months post-ice, it's time for something new!
8 months ago
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Brr Wants A Job

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8 months ago
8 months post-ice, it's time for something new!
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Math Is Still...
The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy For decades, physicists have struggled to develop a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity —...
a year ago
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The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy

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a year ago
For decades, physicists have struggled to develop a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity — and space-time — are fundamentally classical? The post The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Math Is Still...
How Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering New tools make it possible to detect hidden manipulation of maps. The post How Math Has...
a year ago
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How Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
New tools make it possible to detect hidden manipulation of maps. The post How Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
Understanding Jumbo Phage Viruses Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, are the most abundant form of life on Earth. And yet...
11 months ago
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Understanding Jumbo Phage Viruses

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11 months ago
Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, are the most abundant form of life on Earth. And yet we know comparatively little about them. But in recent years phage research has taken off with renewed interest. This is partly driven by the availability of CRISPR-based tools for...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Are Animals Conscious? This is a great scientific question because it challenges how we ask and answer scientific...
9 months ago
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Are Animals Conscious?

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9 months ago
This is a great scientific question because it challenges how we ask and answer scientific questions. Are animals conscious? This is a question discussed in a recent BBC article that peaked my interest. They eventually get to a question that they should have opened with – how do...
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Quantum Frontiers
Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a...
3 months ago
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Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine

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3 months ago
On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here. NISQ and beyond I’m honored to be back at Q2B for … Continue reading →
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Math Is Still...
Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new...
2 months ago
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Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe

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2 months ago
Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out the subtle signals that could reveal if the universe had a shape. The post Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe...
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Chris Grossack's...
Life in Johnstone's Topological Topos 3 -- Bonus Axioms In the first post of the series, we talked about what the topological topos is, and how we can...
9 months ago
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Life in Johnstone's Topological Topos 3 -- Bonus Axioms

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9 months ago
In the first post of the series, we talked about what the topological topos is, and how we can think about its objects (and, importantly, how we can relate computations in the topos $\mathcal{T}$ to computations with topological spaces in “the real world”). In part two, we...
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Math Is Still...
Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox. Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A...
a year ago
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Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox.

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A multigenerational study of four lizard species addresses biology’s “paradox of stasis.” The post Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox. first appeared...
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IEEE Spectrum
What It Takes To Let People Play With the Past Media Archaeology Lab is one of the largest public collections in the world of obsolete, yet...
6 months ago
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What It Takes To Let People Play With the Past

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6 months ago
Media Archaeology Lab is one of the largest public collections in the world of obsolete, yet functional, technology. Located on the University of Colorado Boulder campus, the MAL is where you can watch a magic lantern show, play Star Castle on a Vectrex games console, or check...
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The Works in...
Communities of Practice: The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine The first section of Ch. 3 of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance on Books in Progress
7 months ago
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Communities of Practice: The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine

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7 months ago
The first section of Ch. 3 of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance on Books in Progress
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Moon Race is On Back in the 1960 there was a race to land people on the Moon between the US and the Soviet Union....
9 months ago
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The Moon Race is On

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
Back in the 1960 there was a race to land people on the Moon between the US and the Soviet Union. This was very much a part of the cold war, with each country interested in showing off its technical prowess to the world with a technology closely related to that needed to deliver...
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Drew Ex Machina
First Pictures: View of the Earth from NASA’s Explorer 6 – August 14, 1959 Today we take for granted that we can instantly access images of almost any part of the Earth taken...
7 months ago
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First Pictures: View of the Earth from NASA’s Explorer 6 – August 14, 1959

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7 months ago
Today we take for granted that we can instantly access images of almost any part of the Earth taken from space using an ever growing collection […]
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Confessions of a...
Let’s argue against the Shark Cull with science There’s been a lot in the news recently about the implementation of the Shark Cull (or, as the...
over a year ago
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Let’s argue against the Shark Cull with science

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over a year ago
There’s been a lot in the news recently about the implementation of the Shark Cull (or, as the Government put it, the “shark protection measures”) here in Western Australia.  Just as I am not a climate scientist, I am not a shark biologist, and cannot claim to be a shark expert....
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Math Is Still...
‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality Experiments that test physics and philosophy "as a single whole" may be our only route to surefire...
8 months ago
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‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago
Experiments that test physics and philosophy "as a single whole" may be our only route to surefire knowledge about the universe. The post ‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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