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Seymour Papert's “Mindstorms” made freely available online(mindstorms.media.mit.edu)
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by michael_nielsen 10y ago
One of the most cited papers in the area is Frank Dempster's paper about the failure of educational systems to adopt spaced repetition: http://andrewvs.blogs.com/usu/files/the_spacing_effect.pdf Although the
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by michael_nielsen 10y ago
The first two minutes are absolutely extraordinary, both for the insight, and for the emotion revealed.
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by michael_nielsen 10y ago
Its descendant lives on: http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/
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by michael_nielsen 10y ago
(1) Einstein's Nobel citation specifically mentions his work on the photoelectric effect, not his work on Brownian motion; (2) his work on Brownian motion was theoretical, not experimental; (3) there have been many Nobels for theoretic
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by michael_nielsen 10y ago
According to Amazon (not always reliable) that book came out in September 2005. The New Yorker article is from February 2005. Suggests the sourcing may be the other way around.
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Werner Herzog AMA(de.reddit.com)
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by michael_nielsen 10y ago
Following that rabbit hole, the author seems to be this person: http://www.startegix.com/about.html The first five things in the list of things his company does are: "Public Relations, Media Relations, Press Material C
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by michael_nielsen 10y ago
It's not a depth limit. Rather, mods noticed that many deep threads were flame wars, and implemented a short delay before you can post in deep threads. At least, that's my understanding. To see replies, click on "Threads&qu
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by michael_nielsen 10y ago
For those who don't realize, this is (arguably) the first extended discussion of quantum computers. The other founding paper of the field is David Deutsch's superb "Quantum theory, the Church-Turing principle and the universa
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by michael_nielsen 10y ago
Glad you like the book and blog. I did a short video series on quantum computing: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/quantum-computing-for-the-det... Never completed, but some people tell me they find it useful.
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by michael_nielsen 11y ago
Thanks. It's for a general audience, so I gloss over many details, but tried to do so in a way that remains broadly accurate. The Monte Carlo tree search, in particular, involves many finnicky details that I couldn't get into in
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Tools for thought: graphical algebra and Fourier analysis(acko.net)
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by michael_nielsen 11y ago
Great idea! Could the trust somehow have an arrangement with the Internet Archive to ensure all content is archived? It'd act almost as a last will and testament for a company.
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by michael_nielsen 11y ago
There's a fascinating short companion (of sorts) to this, which is a MathOverflow question written by Gowers: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/58061/how-can-there-be-top...
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What can a technologist do about climate change?(worrydream.com)
402 points by michael_nielsen 11y ago|289 comments
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by michael_nielsen 11y ago
With all the critical "I-told-you-sos", this seems like a good time to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have don
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Browser-based performance of John Cage's composition 4'33''(adregan.github.io)
2 points by michael_nielsen 11y ago|0 comments
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Stewart Brand tells Steve Wozniak “Information Wants to Be Free” (1984)(gettyimages.in)
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by michael_nielsen 11y ago
The letter is in "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track", a book of letters edited by Feynman's daughter, Michelle, and with the co-operation of his son, Carl.
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by michael_nielsen 11y ago
Picking a creative project, and doing it, reconceiving the project as you go, and picking up whatever you need to learn to get it done.
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Understanding LSTM networks(colah.github.io)
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by michael_nielsen 11y ago
The appendix is at http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/sai.html
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by michael_nielsen 11y ago
I love my Kindle, and would like to switch completely, but there are two problems: (1) My physical bookshelves function as a kind of spatial/visual memory for me, with different ideas associated to different locations on the shelves.
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by michael_nielsen 12y ago
Stoll has written a lovely 2010 mea culpa: http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/curmudgeony-essay-on.html#c... Quoting: "Of my many mistakes, flubs, and howlers, few have been as public as my 1995 howler. Wr
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by michael_nielsen 12y ago
Chaim Gingold has a great essay that expands on related ideas, at http://www.levitylab.com/blog/2011/01/catastrophic-prototypi... In particular, the following remarks from Gingold's essay complement the
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by michael_nielsen 12y ago
The article is about the amazing things she's doing, how she's doing them, and, more broadly, all the fun she's having with design. It will benefit many people. She's under no obligation to report the details of her me
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by michael_nielsen 12y ago
Asher Peres, one of the coinventors of teleportation, had an amusing story (with a serious subtext) about the question of what is teleported: "Later, when a newsman asked me whether it was possible to teleport not only the body but als
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by michael_nielsen 12y ago
The NIH open access policy is being expanded to nearly all US Government-funded research (including NSF, DOE and NASA): http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/us-white-house-announce... Similar policies are or
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by michael_nielsen 12y ago
Grothendieck's comments on creativity have been very important in my life, especially the following quote (in translation from the French): "To state it in slightly different terms: in those critical years [roughly from age 17 to

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