💬 He wouldn’t expect to make a breakthrough today. Why? “Because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and keep churning out papers.” "It's difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964."

If you prefer to see a video instead of long Twitter, see it on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=9AxXwY…

.Krys Boyd: You disagree with the notion, made popular by Stephen Hawking and others, that free will is, in fact, a sort of illusion. Can you talk about that? David Deutsch: Yes, this is the idea that because we are made of atoms, and atoms are subject to laws of

A very useful math poster about numbers by Keith Enevoldsen. [bityl.co/R656]

Physical chemist Walther Nernst seems to have been a badass Tony Stark-like character (the book by von Hippel is absolutely top-notch - I must have gifted at least five copies of it).

It's amazing that Marxist economic nonsense is still being seriously argued even though it had been comprehensively refuted 70+ years before Marx wrote it down. David Deutsch

In 2021, I realized that I had become trapped in an antiwoke bubble that was rapidly becoming a subsidiary of the GOP and a feeding ground for weird rightwing talking points. So I made an effort to start adding more woke-indifferent moderate liberals to my lists, as well as a few

i think a lot about this photo and how it represents the actual two party division shaping our world right now— not democrat vs republican, which continually converge on the same thing, but something much more important open vs closed source

Just find that Caltech has this interesting Biological Circuit Design course open sourced biocircuits.github.io/index.html

Marx: “Nothing can have value, without being an object of utility. If the thing is useless, so is the labor contained in it; the labor does not count as labor, and therefore creates no value.”

Jim Simons, Using Mathematics to Make Money

Marx, Engels, and Diamond’s ‘ultimate explanation’ of the different histories of different societies is false: history is the history of ideas, not of the mechanical effects of biogeography. Strategies to prevent foreseeable disasters are bound to fail eventually, and cannot even

Every word he wrote must be interpreted in reverse. This is Orwellian.

Born 65 years ago this minute. Happy to say the last five years have been my all-time most productive (so far)... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/five-m…

derivations #research

> break up with gf > founder mode, grind harder > suffer > age > get kind of rich, congrats > you can buy an overpriced house now > you’re 31 > look for gf > ex gf is married now, she has a child > she seems happy > are you happy?

We were too young to understand this Tom and Jerry episode from 1949 where three drowned kittens arrive in Heaven

I understand. I think many bright people, especially in the hacker community, grew up embracing the same values... classical liberalism, libertarianism, a contempt for tribalism based on race and nationality. I was no exception. These are all, however, self-interested

When you are 26 years old, it common to spend a lot of time pursuing what you want without spending much time considering why you want it. When I was 26, I wanted to be a successful YA novelist. I wanted it more than I wanted a long life, or happiness, or a family...