Tyler Marghetis

What is mathematics, how do we do it, and how will A.I. change it for ever? Thrilled to announce Explaining Universal Truths, a @templeton_fdn & @CMU_DietrichHSS project to fund an interdisciplinary team of philosophers, mathematicians, and cognitive scientists. We're hiring!🧵

The cool thing is that our approach isn’t limited to math. All you need is a time series of discrete events. We’re excited to look at creative breakthroughs in artists, scientists, writers... Got data? Let’s collaborate! (8/n)

🚨 Hot off the press! 🚨 Eureka moments feel like ⚡️lightning⚡️— sudden, brilliant, impossible to predict. Gauss thought of them as “divine intervention.” But in our new @PNASNews paper, we show that you can actually tell when a breakthrough is coming… 🧵(1/n)

PNAS An information-theoretic foreshadowing of mathematicians’ sudden insights pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Researchers filmed 6 mathematicians at the blackboard. Just before their “aha!” moments, their writing and gestures grew more erratic—suggesting that insights may have detectable "early warning signs" in behavior. pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

Video taping mathematicians having IMO-level insights! An absolutely delightful paper by Shadab Tabatabaeian, @TylerMarghetis and a team at @UCMCogSci on mathematical creativity and ah-ha moments. #bibliography" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

A hearty congrats-slash-thanks to 1st author Shadi Tabatabaeian, who led this project during her PhD @ucmerced, and the rest of the team: Arta O’bi & David Landy. I really love this paper. I’m happy it’s out in the world. (9/9, FIN) Full paper 👉 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@VickyCYang @mingzhen_lu @JSMF YES! Wild. With subsequent progress in dribs and drabs over Zoom. Talk about the multiscale dynamics learning!

@mingzhen_lu @JSMF Wow. Did we start this project from a *remote* conference?? @TylerMarghetis

How do we enter and exit moments of deep engagement? How do multiple episodes of flow-like deep engagement weave into the joys and pains, downs and ups of skill mastery? A formula for a life of learning? nature.com/articles/s4426… @VickyCYang @TylerMarghetis

Mastering a skill can take decades, but the learning process unfolds across multiple timescales, from mere moments to days. A new paper by three former SFI postdoctoral fellows presents a theoretical model of nested timescales of learning, offering a unified, multi-scale account of skill acquisition. The study grew from a conversation between co-authors @mingzhen_lu, @VickyCYang, and @TylerMarghetis during SFI's 2020 Postdocs in Complexity conference. santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

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Here’s the key figure: people make the same estimation errors regardless of what they are estimating---political and *entirely non-political* quantities. These are 100k estimates of the size of racial and non-racial groups made by 37k people in 22 countries