5 ms·
In 1905 Einstein was not only working as a patent clerk, he was also finishing his PHD thesis. (He got it for his paper on Brownian motion.) The other two paper
by yk 11y ago
In 1905 Einstein was not only working as a patent clerk, he was also finishing his PHD thesis. (He got it for his paper on Brownian motion.) The other two papers, special relativity, for which he is famous, and the photo electric effect, for which he got the Nobel, are actually using the same trick, just take the (already existing) equations seriously. Granted that is the closest to "one weird trick" you will ever see and it is perhaps even more important for modern physics than his tangible contributions, but it is simply not the case that he was working in a vacuum.
- vacri 11y ago> "one weird trick" Reading this, I couldn't help but think "Maintain correct time in orbit by using this one weird trick discovered by a patent clerk. Click to find out how!"... :)
- eru 11y agoFor the machine learning folks: http://www.oneweirdkerneltrick.com/ http://www.oneweirdkerneltrick.com/
- iopq 11y ago> You Only Learn Once: A Stochastic Weight Aggregation approach to Online Regret Minimization oh cool, this is relevant to my interests, I'm reading papers on monte carlo tree search for adversarial games wait... what is this? I don't even
- iopq 11y ago"Lone wolf patent clerk rewrites 10 most important physics equations. #7 will shock you!"
- TeMPOraL 11y ago"This Lone Pattern Clerk Dozed Off At His Job, Dreaming About Light. You Won't Believe What Happened Next!"
- avn2109 11y ago"Newtonians HATE him!"