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I wrote a little semi-popular account of the Bell inequalities say here: michaelnielsen.org/blog/why-the-w…
Just a little high school mathematics is need to understand the core ideas.
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This paragraph is fascinating, & I've reread it multiple times. The conclusions seem rather repugnant. I've often wondered at the alienating effect of big science on individuals, & this seems like an example of alienating forces
(Not a critique of the paper, quite the reverse!)
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The Schroedinger equation is a linear matrix equation, i d psi / dt = H psi. The solution isn't quite a series of multiplications - you need additions too!
If matrix addition and multiplication can't support sentience, then you've just "proved" human beings aren't sentient.
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What are the most beautiful titles you know?
A few I love:
"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" (Richard Brautigan)
"The Peace of Wild Things" (Wendell Berry)
"The Language Instinct" (Stephen Pinker)
"Desert Solitaire" (Edward Abbey)
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I enjoyed this interview with Dorit Aharonov: medium.com/qiskit/why-thi… (by @Liv_Lanes & Robert Davis)
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In general, it's very striking: society.robinsloan.com/archive/notes-…
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This entire thread is very, very good, on the impact of machine learning & business models & social media on culture. See also: simondedeo.com/?p=705
First we train our machines, then they train us.
Jon Stokes@jon_stokes
The feed doesn’t optimize for social consensus. It optimizes for the division & clustering described above, & it does so because that’s how you micro target ads. The platforms aren’t just representing these audience clusters to advertisers — they’re creating them, too.
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I believe this is John Wheeler's original "It from bit" paper. Anything earlier? philpapers.org/archive/WHEIPQ…
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I didn't know this - Starry Night apparently was inspired in part by a line in Hugo's "Les Miserables", "lighted like a lamp in the center of the starry night, expanding his soul in ecstasy in the universal radiance of creation".
Untold Van Gogh@willemish
Van Gogh's "Starry Night" was painted in June, 1889; the idea and title of the painting appears in Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" which Vincent was reading at the time. "Lighted like a lamp in the center of The Starry Night, expanding his soul (at the) radiance of creation . ."'
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The genetic code is redundant in many interesting ways: for instance, 64 different codons are used to code (redundantly) for 20 different amino acids.
Last year, a group actually removed some of this redundancy in E. coli(!) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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@dabacon I love that this is true for fundamental reasons!
"If you could see me, I would be destroyed. So I hide, invisible, to do my computation. And only if you look at the complete totality can you find me."
Which sounds like mysticism, but is literally what is happening...
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MIT has ended its contract with Elsevier: news.mit.edu/2020/guided-by…
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Protesters Say Statue Tripped, Fell Into Water
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@wolfejosh I suppose the natural consequences are: (a) a lot of money will be lost in this area, on companies that will never ever have any chance; & (b) investors with a good technical baseline have a chance at making some good - possibly extraordinary - investments
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Was just thinking about the (many!) reasons elections are often so close. One thought which keeps recurring is that the media have an incentive for elections to be nailbiters.
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