Emmanuel Muchai

A noteworthy talk at @WFNS2023 by Dr. Michael Belfort, MD, PhD and Dr. William E. Whitehead, MD about the development of fetoscopic surgical techniques in repairing myelomeningoceles in fetuses. The amazing part is doing it when the fetus is in-utero. Marvellous presentation.

im unsure of the exact reasons but the decline in interestingness is extremely palpable if you compare Vol 1 and Vol 2 of Mathematical People by Albers and Alexanderson Vol 1 is full of people who had to write down their best results on the walls of their prison cell or escaped soviet russia by stowing away on a raft Vol 2 is full of people who were really good at math and so they got tenure

On May 4, 1935, Albert Einstein wrote in a letter to The New York Times: “In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.” This tribute came just three weeks after the passing of Emmy Noether, honoring her extraordinary contributions to mathematics.

The axiom of choice was a controversial but crucial addition to modern mathematics. “Without choice, your tools are very limited,” says Joan Bagaria, a set theorist at the University of Barcelona. “It’s like doing math with your hands tied behind your back.” quantamagazine.org/why-maths-fina…

Synthetic Consciousness Won’t Be Built in Silicon It will be grown. ⸻ There’s a material quietly emerging in labs— a self-assembling organic gel. “Brain jelly.” But it’s not just soft matter. It organizes itself into helical nanowires that mirror microtubules inside your neurons. ⸻ No code. No logic gates. No traditional computation. It learns by restructuring itself. Information isn’t stored—it’s embodied in geometry. ⸻ Even more interesting: It appears to support room-temperature quantum coherence. Not as a theory- as a material property. ⸻ If models like Orch-OR are even partially right, then consciousness isn’t something you simulate. It’s something that emerges when the physical conditions are correct. ⸻ Which raises a better question: Are we trying to build intelligence? Or are we trying to discover what kind of matter becomes aware?

What is the only one diagnosis?

Professor Shiraz Minwalla on what string theory actually is and why physicists didn't just wait for better experiments: "You give up. You say, let's wait 1,000 years, then we'll have more experiment. And that may be a rational thing to do. But that's not how humans are." So instead toy models. Find any consistent quantum theory of gravity you can construct. And consistency turns out to be a brutal filter: "We take all the spectrum of particles in string theory, keep all the other masses fixed, change the mass of one. Just doing that would make the theory become nonsense." "String theory is an attempt to find any consistent quantum mechanical theory that reduces to gravity at long distance." And along the way AdS/CFT, black hole entropy, and something nobody expected: "Who would have thought that the best way to do a calculation in hydrodynamics would actually be to do a calculation in gravity? But it's true."

While the white coat remains a powerful symbol in medical education, its daily utility is shifting as clinicians prioritize comfort and approachability. Recent studies suggest that patient trust is built through demeanor and communication rather than attire, leading many physicians to favor fleece jackets or scrubs. Do you still view the white coat as an essential component of professional identity? mdsc.pe/3QARQBb

@LensScientific He was not the only person on earth to know that. Poincaré did too.

1905: Albert Einstein was the first to realize that if the speed of light is constant for all observers, then time cannot be absolute and must be relative. Imagine being the only person on Earth to have known that time was not absolute.

the fact that women in ancestral times only had about 100 periods in their entire lifetime (due to back-to-back pregnancies and years of breastfeeding) versus the 400+ we have as modern women is actually insane. Hongmei Wang is bringing us back to our evolutionary baseline.

I recently overheard some fellow nerds discussing their “academic productivity.” One of them said something to the effect of: “when I finished my PhD I had 2 book contracts, 5 articles and 2 under review. And what do you have??! Harr harr I am superior.” What a silly way to reduce the intellectual’s noble vocation to that of a for-profit business magnate. It was common among Oxford Dons to do nothing for 30 years before producing their magnum opus. Which would be read for generations, unlike the mass-produced crap some of these people are producing to hit arbitrary quotas. This is the Americanization of academia.

STANFORD JUST PUT ITS ENTIRE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CURRICULUM ON YOUTUBE FOR FREE. CS221. The same course that produced engineers now running AI labs, building frontier models, and getting paid $500,000 a year at the companies everyone is trying to work for. Most people have never heard of it. The ones who have are not telling you about it. Here is what the course actually covers: Search algorithms. The mathematical foundation behind every AI that finds optimal solutions in complex environments. Constraint satisfaction. How AI reasons through problems with thousands of interdependent variables simultaneously. Markov decision processes. The probabilistic framework behind every AI agent that makes sequential decisions under uncertainty. Machine learning from first principles. Not how to use sklearn. How the math actually works underneath it. Neural networks. Built from the ground up before jumping to applications. Logic and knowledge representation. How AI systems reason about the world formally. Natural language processing. The foundation of everything happening in LLMs right now. Robotics and computer vision. How AI perceives and acts in physical environments. Every concept that powers every AI product you use daily is in this curriculum. Not a surface level overview. The actual mathematics. The actual algorithms. The actual reasoning. This is what separates engineers who build AI from operators who use it. Stanford charged $60,000 a year for students to sit in this classroom. They put the whole thing on YouTube. Bookmark this before you open any other AI resource today. Follow @cyrilXBT for more elite resources that build real depth the moment they drop.

Jensen is one the smartest and most far seeing folks the world. "If an AI scientist warns people that AI is going to permeate across radiology and radiologists are going to get wiped out, it might seem helpful but it's hurtful. If we convince everybody not to be radiologists and we now need radiologists, that actually is hurtful to society. "It is hurtful to convince all the young college graduates not to study software engineering because we are going to need more software engineers than ever. That's hurtful." "Scaring people with nonsensical things, which are not going to happen, that this is an existential threat, there's a 20% chance that is is existential, that's ridiculous. "That it's going to wipe out 50% of college level jobs. "That is it going to completely destroy democracy. "These kinds of comments are not helpful. They are made by...CEOS. And you become a CEO, maybe you adopt a God complex and somehow you know everything." Brutal. And right.

I couldn't stop wondering why this cow is so expensive. So I looked it up. I was amazed to find out that a single egg of this cow can fetch upto $25,000. This elite Nelore, descended from India’s hardy Zebu cattle, carries genetics so superior they produce exceptional high-volume, premium-quality beef. That’s why a single one of her ova can sell for around $25,000. Every three weeks she undergoes an ovum pick-up session that typically yields about 10 eggs — turning that single session into a cool $250,000 payday. With roughly 10 productive years still ahead, her eggs alone are projected to generate around $10 million. For a cow valued at $4.8 million, that means her owners are on track to more than double their investment from genetics sales alone. And the real magic happens next: those eggs are fertilized in vitro to create superior offspring that spread her champion traits across countless herds. Literally a cash cow!

> Be Jacobo Grinberg > 47 years old > Watches his mother die from a brain tumor at 12 > Decides right then he will decode the human mind > Earns a PhD in New York studying how the brain processes reality > Returns to Mexico and builds two psychophysiology labs from scratch > The entire scientific community calls his work pseudoscience > He doesn't stop > Founds the National Institute for the Study of Consciousness > Proves that two brains can sync in real-time without any physical contact > Blindfolds children and teaches them to read with their fingertips > The results are indistinguishable from normal vision > The CIA approaches him multiple times for his research > He refuses every time > Writes 50+ books merging quantum physics, shamanism, and neuroscience > Proposes that reality itself is a neurological hallucination your brain constructs > Not a theory. Peer-reviewed. Published in international journals. > The Mexican government shuts down his police investigation under orders from the president's office > No body. No trace. No answers. > People report seeing him board a craft made of three perfect spheres in January 1995 > His final book argues we are living in a holographic simulation we can learn to control > Netflix makes a documentary about his disappearance 26 years later > Still no answers > Lives by one idea — the human mind has a ceiling only because we agree it does And Grinberg is still the only scientist who may have proved consciousness is programmable before vanishing into the very reality he was trying to rewrite. Grinberg was terrifying.

Ancient cultures were extremely violent, not “peace-loving ecologists” at all!

Next in who after the Bibha Series? He was the man who dared to break Einstein’s speed limit in his mind, yet his own country allowed his legacy to slow to a crawl. Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan (1931-2018) was the Architect of the Quantum Mirror, a man who lived in the minus-space of physics, the fundamental gaps where the most important truths are hidden. Today, his eqns are the silent pulse inside every fiber-optic cable & the logic behind every laser, yet in the bustling streets of India, he is a ghost. He is the man who was nominated for the Nobel Prize 9 times, only to watch from the shadows as others walked the red carpet for theories he had already perfected. Born in 1931 in the lush quiet of Pallom, Kerala, George was a Mental Calculator of the cosmos. While his peers were studying the world as it appeared, George was obsessed with how it worked when no 1 was looking. After a stint at TIFR under Homi Bhabha, he realized that to catch the lightning of the New Physics, he had to move. He landed in Rochester, New York, in the 1950s, a young man in a thin coat with a brain that operated in higher dimensions. At just 26, as a student, he discovered the Vector minus Axial law of weak interaction, the math that explains how subatomic particles decay. It is 1 of the 4 fundamental pillars of the universe. He was the 1st to mathematically prove that particles could exist faster than light. He called them Tachyons. He turned the impossible into a valid scientific conversation. He created the Sudarshan-Glauber Representation. This is the bridge b/w classical light & quantum reality. W/o this, the high-speed internet we are using right now would not exist. In 1979, the Nobel was given for the Weak Interaction (V-A Theory); Sudarshan was ignored. In 2005, the Nobel was given for Quantum Optics; George was ignored again. The scientific world was stunned. He famously remarked that it was like giving a prize to the people who built the second floor of a house while forgetting the man who laid the foundation. He did not just lose a prize; he was erased from the Discovery Moment by a Western-centric academic machine. Sudarshan returned to his roots. He headed the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) in Madras, trying to breathe the fire of global excellence into Indian students. He was a Physicist-Philosopher, a man who converted to Hinduism because he found that the Upanishads spoke the same language as Quantum Mechanics. He lived in the tension b/w the Austin high-tech labs & the spiritual silence of India. To his neighbors, he was a quiet, unassuming prof. They had no idea they were living next to a man who had looked into the heart of the Big Bang & come back with a formula. E.C. George Sudarshan passed away in 2018. He left behind no statues, & his name is not whispered in the same breath as the household names of Bollywood/Cricket. He remains the Invisible Infra of the Quantum Age. He is the ghost in our smartphone, the ghost in the medical laser, & the ghost in the stars. He proved that some things travel faster than light... perhaps, 1 day, his fame will finally catch up to his genius. #WhoAfterBibha Key Work: web2.ph.utexas.edu/~gsudama/publi…

so apparently the concept of a teenager basically did not exist until post-WWII. a specific combination of historical forces produced a new class of young people who all had to go to high school, could not work on farms or in mills or factories anymore, and had access to money and cars. the entire rebellious teenager trope was created in this time period so it refers specifically to boomers rebelling against the silent generation, who grew up in a completely different world. the generation gap here was so stark this is also where the term "generation gap" even comes from, and i think the whole practice of naming distinct generations saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/02/brief-…

Learn game theory, Leverage ai, Build a team, Change the world. Not enough 20 year olds are doing this. Entire Game Theory Lecture by Yale University:

@Fintech03 My brother, if all maths disappears, you are not going to be able to do any reasonably advanced physics. He k, even basic elementary physics will be a struggle.

@Fintech03 ...Thirdly, you only have to read Wigners Essay on "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" to see why Feynman's quote about all maths disappearing and physics being set back by only 1 week— if he truly said that—is absolutely wrong.

Feynman once walked into the math department at Caltech & challenged the mathematicians to a duel. He asked them to name any theorem, no matter how complex, & promised he could explain it using common sense & basic physics. They gave him the Banach-Tarski Paradox (which says you can cut a ball into pieces & reassemble them into 2 identical balls). Feynman looked at it & dismissed it because no such material exists in nature. To him, if the math did not describe an asset in the real world, it was just accounting fluff :))