Michael Nielsen@michael_nielsen
Searching for the numinous 🇦🇺 🇨🇦, home in 🇺🇸 Research @AsteraInstitute https://t.co/maezekzRUb michaelnielsen.org San Francisco, CA Joined July 2008-
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Amazing! I had no idea! Persistent, apparently, and the explanation still seems to be contested! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27…
Amazing! I had no idea! Persistent, apparently, and the explanation still seems to be contested! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27…
Just noticed that the Centenary of Quantum Mechanics is not that far away - July 29, 1925 was the date of Heisenberg's paper (Schroedinger was a little later, IIRC)
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3K Followers 2K Following Peripatetic American in Cambridge. PhD work on empathy, democracy, and early modern political thought. No longer posting here; at the blue site @ https://t.co/MZ7QzFawyZModern Western civilization has extraordinary empathy compared to its power. This is also arguably its greatest weakness. With the nuclear bomb, America could have subjugated every nation on Earth with ease. Hitler and Stalin would certainly have done so. Instead, America… x.com/i/web/status/1…
Modern Western civilization has extraordinary empathy compared to its power. This is also arguably its greatest weakness. With the nuclear bomb, America could have subjugated every nation on Earth with ease. Hitler and Stalin would certainly have done so. Instead, America… x.com/i/web/status/1…
True and impressive. It happened because people in 1945 remembered how badly the victors screwed up after World War One.
True and impressive. It happened because people in 1945 remembered how badly the victors screwed up after World War One.
@kindgracekind This is what it feels like to be an entrepreneur
This is what it feels like to be a language model
If you also haven’t read Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow” and don’t want to read a whole book, read his 2003 “Maps of Bounded Rationality” instead. It’s a publication that summarizes the same ideas in his own words.
If you also haven’t read Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow” and don’t want to read a whole book, read his 2003 “Maps of Bounded Rationality” instead. It’s a publication that summarizes the same ideas in his own words. https://t.co/FXGpbphK4F
Just posted our 2023 annual review: openphilanthropy.org/research/our-p… It's been a rollercoaster couple of years, but I'm proud of our team and excited about the year ahead.
calls to mind much of the sentiment expressed in “mastery of theory: cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics” impact is presented as a function of compounded mastery…and mastery is earned (hardly in isolation)
calls to mind much of the sentiment expressed in “mastery of theory: cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics” impact is presented as a function of compounded mastery…and mastery is earned (hardly in isolation) https://t.co/p5NFFjJahH
@michael_nielsen In 15 years: "Does one need to be an ASI to do maths?"
@michael_nielsen @hannu and Bach also famously said "what I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve."
@michael_nielsen Tao: "I readily concede that my own maths education was somewhat anomalous, to say the least." Wikipedia:
@michael_nielsen Or maybe he's uniquely qualified to observe the non-genius status of his colleagues and collaborators, and he finds them capable of productive and interesting work.
@michael_nielsen Think there's a slight nuance with Djokovic -- in tennis there's a winner and a loser. For Terry, he works with many other mathematicians, including students just getting started. Would guess that a lot of the students he is impressed by are not necessarily geniuses.
@michael_nielsen That's how the cult of genius persists! Every time a big name says something along these lines, no one really takes them seriously.
@michael_nielsen @orzelc This same thought struck my husband in 2018 when he was on the APS Forum on the History and Philosophy of Physics. See quantum2025.org
Kalamang Translation One of the most exciting examples in the report involves translation of Kalamang. Kalamang is a language spoken by fewer than 200 speakers in western New Guinea in the east of Indonesian Papua (endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1891). Kalamang has almost no online… x.com/i/web/status/1…
Good demonstration of the thermodynamic headroom for computing: H100 can do 60 teraflops and uses roughly the same energy as one human’s household electricity (700 W) One human’s brain can do 20 petaflops (300x) burning ~20 W (0.03x). Brains are 10000x more efficient
Good demonstration of the thermodynamic headroom for computing: H100 can do 60 teraflops and uses roughly the same energy as one human’s household electricity (700 W) One human’s brain can do 20 petaflops (300x) burning ~20 W (0.03x). Brains are 10000x more efficient
@michael_nielsen I definitely would have lost money betting you already knew about this! Reminds me that I think I learned "You're one of today's lucky 10,000" from you :) x.com/michael_nielse…
@michael_nielsen I definitely would have lost money betting you already knew about this! Reminds me that I think I learned "You're one of today's lucky 10,000" from you :) x.com/michael_nielse…
@michael_nielsen Next year is the “International Year of Quantum Science and Technology” publishing.aip.org/publications/j….