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by rpmuller 3y ago
Also check out the interview Ezra Klein did with Jennifer Pahlki on his podcast [1]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/podcasts/transcript-ezra-...
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by rpmuller 4y ago
Love the post. I'll take this opportunity to link to a favorite classic linear algebra paper in a similar vein: "Nineteen Dubious Ways to Compute the Exponential of a Matrix" [1] [1]: https://www.math.purdue.edu&#x
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by rpmuller 4y ago
Thanks for the link to that essay. I feel changed after reading it.
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by rpmuller 4y ago
It’s even stranger than the author makes out. When I got into coffee in the 80’s, being a coffee snob meant buying beans, grinding them in a $30 Braun chopper, and brewing them in a $50 Braun automatic drip machine. The beans were often fro
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by rpmuller 4y ago
I had been intrigued by Lisp for years, but it was Julia's roots in Lisp that finally got me to explore the Lisp languages. I actually haven't used LispSyntax.jl, but it's close to what I'd like to have in a language.
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by rpmuller 4y ago
Wow, you're correct, he uses ACM TOG for the paper. As a scientist, I mostly just use the REVTeX packages or tufts-latex. Evidently there's a brave new world of other templates out there that I need to learn about. Thanks.
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by rpmuller 4y ago
Does anyone know how he writes his papers ? His illustrations will forever be beyond my skills, but I’d like to up my paper mojo. Since his references are in bibtex, I assume he’s using some flavor of TeX, but this looks more sophisticated
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by rpmuller 4y ago
It was Peter Atkins’ lectures in Quantum Mechanics that made me decide to go into Quantum Chemistry, so the book always brings back fond memories. For Chemistry I’d also list Pauling’s Nature of the Chemical Bond. And maybe Szabo and Ostlun
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by rpmuller 4y ago
You mean like https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl ?
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by rpmuller 4y ago
Does anyone know of programming tools for better thinking? I used to be a very good programmer, and now I run a large research organization. One would think that there would be ample opportunity to use my programming skills to better mana
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by rpmuller 4y ago
Course-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture [1], like an FPGA but with more robust logic units. Something I'd like to learn more about. [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04509
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by rpmuller 4y ago
Anyone know of anything similar for CGRAs?
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by rpmuller 4y ago
I no longer work in the field, but I've always been incredibly impressed by the innovative methods that Steven Boxer uses in enzyme spectroscopy.
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by rpmuller 4y ago
I've been a part of many language communities, and that the Julia team is the very best in terms of the professionalism of the language and the key modules. Maybe the best response to this is to view it as a call to action for us Julia
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by rpmuller 4y ago
In addition to being interesting to techies, this is a really well-written article, e.g. > Everyone was slightly disgusted and slightly impressed. Went back and reread the whole article to find more gems like that one.
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by rpmuller 4y ago
The National Cryptologic Museum is well worth visiting for the Enigma Machines alone. It's free to get in, right next to NSA headquarters, but you don't need a visitors pass or to go through a guard station. When I was there they
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by rpmuller 4y ago
I was so excited about VRML in 1996. I thought it was going to take over the world of molecular graphics -- all we would have to do is write molecule-to-VRML translators, rather than writing free-standing OpenGL applications. It's take
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by rpmuller 5y ago
Slow down! I’m still catching up to sectorlisp!
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by rpmuller 5y ago
The "Mike and Ike" book is the standard introduction to the field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Computation_and_Quantu...
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by rpmuller 5y ago
What? No Jaqal? https://www.sandia.gov/quantum/Projects/QSCOUT_Jaqal.html
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The Trojan Horse Affair(nytimes.com)
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by rpmuller 5y ago
Excellent storytelling from Serial about an unbelievable alleged Islamist plot in British schools.
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by rpmuller 5y ago
Thanks for this. What I’m thinking of.
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by rpmuller 5y ago
Big fan of Pluto, and I’ve watched the Computational Thinking videos several times already. What I’m looking for when I talk about tools for thinking are the same type of sketching out a problem I do on paper. My first-year physics professo
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by rpmuller 5y ago
I love the tools coming out of the Julia ecosystem, and am excited to see what comes next. I’m hopeful that we’ll see the development of tools to think with rather than tools to solve problems you’ve already thought through. I still reac
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by rpmuller 5y ago
Tsar Bomba [1] is a good example of energy release from fusion. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
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by rpmuller 5y ago
I asked Scott Aaronson what he thought about Knuth's ideas, and he said something along the lines of when you're as famous as Knuth, you can get away with saying nonsense like that.
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by rpmuller 5y ago
One of the best things about Julia is that people like Chris Rackauckas are developing great packages for it.
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by rpmuller 5y ago
I also like this page for latex fonts: https://r2src.github.io/top10fonts/
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by rpmuller 5y ago
There was a nice article in Nautilus a few years back about this work called "Consciousness began when the gods stopped speaking": https://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/consciousness-began-...

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