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Frankly, stuff like this makes me more skeptical of the ML community. Remember when people thought Brains were just really complicated hydraulic systems?
by __loam 4y ago
Frankly, stuff like this makes me more skeptical of the ML community. Remember when people thought Brains were just really complicated hydraulic systems?
- 0xBABAD00C 4y agoVanchurin is a physics professor, but ok https://twitter.com/vanchurin?lang=en https://twitter.com/vanchurin?lang=en I actually think that interdisciplinary work like this can shed light into common structures across physics, biology, neuroscience, CS, etc. If anything, I wish there were more attempts to explore the connections between these disciplines.
- opportune 4y agoThe author is basically a crank, it looks like they held some teaching positions in an unrelated subject at various universities yielding the “professor” title, and originally studied/published actual research in cosmology decades back. Might as well be skeptical of the math community because of circle squarers
- 0xBABAD00C 4y ago> The author is basically a crank Really not sure why do you say this. Is it something personal against him? Are you against people exploring weird interdisciplinary topics? He has tons of publications [1], including co-authorship with people like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Koonin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Koonin Koonin is certainly not a crank, and is a rather well-known interdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of biology and physics. [1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nEEFLp0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nEEFLp0AAAAJ...