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'Mind Over Matter': Stephen Hawking – Obituary by Roger Penrose
- timbit42 9y agoWARNING: AMP link Non-AMP link: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-obituary https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawk...
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- davedx 9y agoThe author of the obituary, Roger Penrose, is also a distinguished and forward thinking scientist. I highly recommend reading his book "The Emperor's New Mind". It's especially relevant in today's climate of rapidly accelerating machine learning and A.I. advances (whether you agree with his premises or not).
- nilkn 9y agoPenrose isn't just a distinguished scientist: he's one of Hawking's most famous collaborators. The Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems are named after both of them. They were jointly awarded several prizes/medals too.
- stochastic_monk 9y agoMany of you will be familiar with the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse [0], a generalization of the matrix inverse which is defined for non-square matrices and zero matrices, frequently applied in machine learning and statistics. However, like Hawking, with whom he was a collaborator (as you read in the article), he also wrote several highly successful popular books. I haven't yet read the Emperor's New Mind and look forward to doing so, but I have read the excellent The Road To Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe [1]. I might also recommend some joint lectures between the two of them [2]. I don't think there could be a more fitting author for Stephen Hawking's obituary. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%E2%80%93Penrose_inverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%E2%80%93Penrose_inverse [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Reality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Reality [2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9409195.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9409195.pdf
- codeulike 9y agoOne day I hope to decorate my bathroom with Penrose tiles.
- SilasX 9y agoHow is it relevant? (The AI part of ) TENM is basically, "AI isn't possible, it will never do that." Well, they're doing it -- passing a lot of barriers that were assumed impossible. Now I don't want to be unfair or hasty here, so let me say this: If I were to claim that such a book were relevant under the above conditions, I would only do it if I could say something like, "Penrose wisely pointed out that attempts at AI run into the problem of -----, which manifests in such projects as -----, where they tried to ----, but predictably couldn't, because, as Penrose said, ----." (---- = blank) Can you do that for TENM?
- Santosh83 9y agoCan also recommend Penrose's Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe, for an interesting take on his own view of cyclic cosmology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycles_of_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycles_of_Time
- mturmon 9y agoAn accessible summary of the part of Hawking's work that we can digest at present, by someone in a position to know. Don't miss the last paragraph.
- typon 9y agoThis isn't an ordinary obituary - it actually describes Hawking's contributions to physics from the perspective of another renowned physicist. Really well written.
- rweba 9y agoI really like this obituary, this is exactly what I was looking for. Penrose not only understands the details of Hawking's work at a much deeper level than most of us, but as a contemporary of Hawking's he has followed his career for decades and can give us a good overall impression.
- mhh__ 9y agoA fitting tribute, from a man who fully understood both the man and his work. Roger Penrose's book "The road to reality" is great if you want a high level overview (and list of topics) for mathematical physics (The scary stuff!).
- dustfinger 9y agoI wonder if caloric restriction may have strengthened his immune system and increased his life expectancy? EDIT: I thought I should do a quick search on that idea and it turns out that I am not the first person to have asked that question: http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=463854 http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=463854
- bassman9000 9y agoHawking is survived by his children.