I’m interested in math, physics, cosmology, and other sciences too. I occasionally also tweet about classical music and jazz. MBA. I work in the publishing ind.
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Unfortunately, this cult of ignorance and anti-intellectualism has been intensified and weaponized for political and financial purposes, with anti-evolutionists, antivaxxers, climate deniers, et al., polluting the dialogue/information space.
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The new Huberman Lab episode is out: What Makes Great Leaders & How to Live an Extraordinary Life | Dr. Jared Diamond
0:00 Jared Diamond
2:51 Leadership, Prophets; Hitler, WWII
9:17 Hitler, Leadership, Deception
11:45 Unlikely Leader: Harry Truman
13:45 Sponsors: Rorra & Eight Sleep
16:28 Leaders, Introspection, Charisma; Individuals, History Patterns
22:35 Leaders & Addressing Mistakes, Forgiveness
25:36 Religious Leaders, Jesus & Leadership, Organizers
30:42 Leader Partnerships, Science, Religion
35:18 Jim Jones, Effective Cult Leaders; Followers
39:53 Sponsor: AG1
41:06 Leaders & Clinging to Power
44:29 Learning Languages
49:59 Taxonomy, Lists & Names, Studying Birds
56:41 Curiosity, New Guinea Birds, Success & Support Across Different Careers
1:04:55 Travel, Intellectual Explorer
1:07:44 Birds, Vision & Sound, Ecology; Bird Song, Monkeys
1:14:50 Sponsor: Function
1:16:27 Academic Leadership; Time & His Remaining Projects
1:25:54 Humanity Risks, Population Bomb
1:30:46 Physical Activity; Sports Leaders
1:38:08 Coaching Philosophy, John Wooden; Business Leaders, Yvon Chouinard
1:44:31 Great Leadership; Advice for Others
1:51:22 Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter
Includes paid partnerships.
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Ursula K. Le Guin on the meaning of maturity and what it really takes to grow up themarginalian.org/2026/06/1…
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"We recognize the power of new technologies for mathematical reasoning and appreciate what they can contribute to the subject we know and love. We are generally optimistic about the role AI can play, but we are deeply concerned by some recent calls to formalize everything as quickly as possible. If done well, a large-scale, coordinated formalization effort could enormously expand mathematical exploration and discovery. Done poorly, it will be, at best, a waste of resources; more likely, it will do lasting damage."
A guest post on xenaproject by Jeremy Avigad, Kevin Buzzard, Johan Commelin, Rémy Degenne, Kim Morrison, Oliver Nash and Adam Topaz
xenaproject.wordpress.com/20…
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Which works of science fiction have influenced you? (Article in the Guardian includes Jennifer Doudna, Martin Rees, me, and others)
theguardian.com/science/2018…
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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything – 11 months after his release from the concentration camps, Viktor Frankl gave a set of lectures on moving beyond optimism and pessimism to find life's deepest source of meaning. They were lost for decades, never before published in English: themarginalian.org/2020/05/1…
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Caught our new interview?
No More Heroes - Terence Tao Talks to Numberphile About AI
youtu.be/bAnwMdfcMVw
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Chill, it’s only been 3 hours. He’s 5 years old so it takes time.
Anyways, we started with bijections and cardinality, moved on to countable versus uncountable infinities, Cantor’s diagonal argument, Hilbert’s Hotel, ordinal arithmetic and transfinite induction. I’m trying to get to the aleph hierarchy before bedtime, but he’s really struggling with the axiom of choice and Zorn’s lemma.
I think I’ll wait until the morning to cover the continuum hypothesis—don’t want to give him bad dreams, ya know.
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Many people just starting out on Lean formalization have enjoyed playing the Natural Numbers Game. Now Autumn Mapes has produced Visual Lean, isomorphic to the original but playable in a lovely intuitive way with clicking and dragging rather than typing.
leangame.autumnofautumn.com/
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.
- Carl Sagan
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I love math, and I thought this was a beautiful interview.
My mom is allergic to math, and she thought this was a beautiful interview.
So I think many people will find value in this conversation. I listened to it yesterday, but I suspect the video version will be more poignant
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Mathematical proof dates back at least to Euclid in 300 BCE, and yet little is known about what happens in the mind when humans solve proofs.
This week, an SFI working group co-organized by SFI External Professor Simon DeDeo (Carnegie Mellon University) brought together mathematicians, cognitive scientists, computer scientists, and philosophers to ask what it means to understand a proof.
As DeDeo says, that question matters more now that machines are proving theorems “we used to consider to be at the absolute outer edge of human possibility.”
santafe.edu/news-center/news…
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A Very Challenging Viewer Suggested Integral youtu.be/nFEyKXgE6_c?is=gk3a… via @YouTube
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"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."
From Ursula K. Le Guin, the best thing I have ever read on the power – and magic – of conversation: themarginalian.org/2015/10/2…
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“It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way Carl knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.”
― Ann Druyan
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I wrote about attention, the mathematical operation that enables LLMs to process language at scale. Devised by Dzmitry Bahdanau in 2014, the trick was supercharged in the famous paper "Attention Is All You Need." I ask: 𝘞𝘩𝘺 is it all you need? Is it? quantamagazine.org/is-attent…
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"Whoever is in your life,
those who harm you,
those who help you;
those whom you know
and those whom you do not know —
let them off the hook,
help them off the hook."
Leonard Cohen on anger and the meaning of resistance: themarginalian.org/2024/07/1…
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“Cruel men believe in a cruel God, and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case. Men tend to have the beliefs that suit their passions.”
— Bertrand Russell, London Calling
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I think people who are knocking on Terence Tao's take are missing what I believe is a bigger point he is making. While it's true that drugs can be approved without understanding their MOA, do we want to live in a world where humans have completely ceded their understanding to machines and are at their whims? If neither I nor anyone else understood how my dishwasher worked,
a. Nobody would be able to fix it if it broke down.
b. We would be in a lot of trouble if in addition it became intelligent and exhibited RSI.
