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Marvin Minsky on AI

@Tristi42 I am curious to learn more Rust and totally understand the appeal. But I still find C so nice, simple, clean, portable and beautiful, aesthetically. It's as close as you want to get to direct communion with the machine.

watch and learn from others' imagined actions.

For my freshman seminar Caltech, it might be fun for the class to discuss some provocative essays relating to quantum science. Here are a few that come to mind. (Some may be too technical but we could read excerpts.) What should be added to or subtracted from this list?

A data compression algorithm based on Kolmogorov complexity theory allows estimation of dynamic properties of simple liquids, specifically the diffusion coefficient, from a single equilibrium configuration go.aps.org/3YCxcm4

Van Gogh in 1890

Statistical Physics rocks! 2016, 2021, and (now!) 2024 Nobel prizes highlight the beauty, and the impact of this discipline with groundbreaking results in physics and crucial contributions to other branches of science such as mathematics, neuroscience and machine learning.

Active glasses are dense, disordered structures made up of motile constituents. Simulations now show that motility-driven annealing in such systems leads to mechanical changes, including increased brittleness. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Congratulations to Rishabh Sharma (graduate student, Smarajit Karmakar's group TIFR Hyderabad) on receiving the Simons Center Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship (NYU). With this fellowship, Rishabh plans to explore memory effects & learning-like behaviours in soft matter systems.

Giorgio Parisi opening StatPhys29: AI resembles the heat engine in that the technology arrived before the theory.

Stress responses to switching strain direction in passive versus active ultrastable glasses display a transient memory effect in the latter, allowing the system to heal and elucidating a counterintuitive way structural memory forms in amorphous solids. 🔗 go.aps.org/42x68Wx

(3/n) Awards | Announced during the Founder's Day programme Tata Institute of Fundamental Research: Congratulations to Simran Rawal (graduate student, Tamal Das's lab) and Rishabh Sharma (graduate student, Smarajit Karmakar's lab) on receiving the Ramakrishna Cowsik Medals, 2025.

Gyromorphs are a new class of functional correlated disordered materials with high rotational order that exhibit deeper isotropic bandgaps go.aps.org/4olK8H2