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by topologie 8mo ago
English is not my first language, what do you mean by Codification?
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by topologie 10mo ago
I have a couple I would highly recommend: The first is Stanislaw Lem's "Imaginary Magnitude." Most stories there are written as sort of prefaces to non-existent technical/scientific books, papers, articles, etc. The last
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by topologie 1y ago
Just a reminder, that, as the article also says: "Moby-Dick was Cormac McCarthy's favorite book" ... and mine too...
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by topologie 1y ago
Was just about to post this. Thank you.
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by topologie 1y ago
I would highly recommend that you read Mandelbrot's books and Nassim Taleb's books. For Mandelbrot, I'd recommend starting with The (Mis)Behavior of Markets. For Taleb, maybe start with The Black Swan. With those books you&#x
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by topologie 1y ago
Made me think of that Silicon Valley episode with the Patent Troll. I don't remember it exactly, but I think near the end Richard solves the situation by building a (fake?) music app that detected that the song that had made the Patent
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by topologie 2y ago
I'm fond of this one, since a friend of mine, Carlos Pérez Delgado, worked on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cellular_automaton . :) (In case it's not super clear, I'm kinda jokin' here
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by topologie 2y ago
My favorite Von Neumann anecdote/quote is this one: John Von Neumann once said to Felix Smith: "Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." This was a response to Smith's fea
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by topologie 2y ago
I disagree... Von Neumann went beyond being a King of Kings, the man was a God (or a "Monster Mind" according to Feynman) :)
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by topologie 2y ago
Good news is, if the imitator is smart enough, they can become experts... (see "Ripley Underground" by Patricia Highsmith for more info...) :)
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by topologie 2y ago
I believe this is also tied to La Subida del Monte Carmelo from San Juan de la Cruz. I'm oversimplifying, but basically it goes like this: As San Juan climbs Monte Carmelo, he finds nothing at the base of the monte, then he finds nothi
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by topologie 2y ago
Good point. Here are some notes on it based on what I've observed happens in Academia and in other environments: I think handwaving comes in different flavors: - Handwaving and not knowing what they are doing, when they know they don&#
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by topologie 2y ago
Tao... What can I say... Always great work. Haven't read a single bad contribution from him. And I've read quite a bit...
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by topologie 3y ago
Met the man in person, had a really long chat with him. Made me realize how he truly was one of the smartest people alive at the time. Really sad news...
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by topologie 3y ago
And to think this is the "level 1" type of paradox in statistics and probability... It's a fun area.
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by topologie 3y ago
I like your way of thinking about Audiobooks as "Audio books are a transformation function applied to physical books." They also help sometimes in getting the "musicality" of a work. I didn't know how musical Moby D
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by topologie 3y ago
100% with you on Jaynes and Barbour. Jaynes' book is a game changer, but I particularly love that you mentioned Barbour and his work. On Barbour's work: Apart from being an incredibly interesting book, I was amazed that he was a s
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by topologie 3y ago
Thank you for this! I had spotted some errors here and there, but it's always good to have them in one place. I think we are all in the same wagon when I say that even with those rough edges Jaynes' book is kind of a transformativ
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by topologie 3y ago
As a Mathematician who worked in Theoretical Physics for a bit, I'm happy to hear that there's people out there interested in the area. Maths often get a bad rep, but at their core they are probably the most interesting thing to l
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by topologie 3y ago
Thank you so much for this!
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by topologie 3y ago
Beat me to it... I posted it without realizing somebody else had already posted it. Gotta love Prof. Hossenfelder.
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by topologie 3y ago
Related: "I don't believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics. (The most uplifting video I'll ever make.)" by Sabine Hossenfelder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Mq6gmPo0s
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by topologie 3y ago
I hope this helps anyone suffering from burnout (and other types of pain...): https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/art_painp... Not necessarily a methodology/technique to avoid burnout
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by topologie 3y ago
While reading your comment I realized that being "confidently wrong" is actually really human, so... yay? I mean, that's one step closer to machines thinking like humans, right? :)
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by topologie 3y ago
Interesting article... As a side note, I have noticed that sometimes people that move into management from a technical position seem to not be fully aware that management is not only about managing projects and keeping track of people timel
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by topologie 3y ago
Just a side note: It's easier to remember two connected things/facts than a single thing/fact in isolation...
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by topologie 3y ago
Solaris is a great book and I would recommend everyone checking other works by Lem. The guy has many different flavors, most of his work is actually kind of hilarious, Solaris is probably his most "serious" one, still amazing. Her
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by topologie 4y ago
It's freaking awesome is what it is. Seriously, one of the most fascinating games ever. I'd recommend checking the following articles to get a good overview of the whole thing: - https://www.nytimes.com/2011/0
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by topologie 4y ago
Refactoring.
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by topologie 4y ago
This. Exactly this.

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