Murray Gell-Mann once whispered (in a typically mischievous Murray way) to me during an Santa Fe Institute seminar, "biology is not ready for maths." I don't agree but I am sympathetic. Moving forward requires triangulating bw diff types of representations. Even as we approach the

The implications of Shannon's work do indeed continue to reverberate but it is somewhat misleading to ascribe the implications for basic science + our daily lives to his genius alone. Rather the implications are due to delicate synergies. It is Shannon's work in synergistic

Tech bros: “There’s a shortage of talent. We need more workers! More H-1Bs!” Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley: “My perfect GPA students are contacting me worried because they are getting zero job offers.”

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Meet Daniel Kahneman: • Holocaust survivor • New York Times Bestseller • Nobel Prize winner in Economics After surviving the Holocaust, he became obsessed with understanding human behavior.

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In chaotic systems, the smallest fluctuations get amplified. As scientist Edward Lorenz put it in the 1960s and 70s, even a seagull flapping its wings might eventually make a big difference to the weather. Here's how scientists came to understand what chaos is, and how to wrangle

1890: While investigating how a system of three orbiting bodies will evolve over time (now known as the three-body problem), Henri Poincaré discovered that the smallest variation in their initial state will lead to enormous discrepancies later on. He suggested that this sensitive

1898: The French mathematician Jacques Hadamard discovered that if you slightly tweak a particle’s initial position on a “negatively curved” surface — a surface that looks like a saddle — it will end up on a vastly different trajectory. In other words, you can’t predict the

Early 1940s: It’s impossible to predict the far-future. But unpredictable outcomes of chaos aren’t random. While analyzing radar systems, British mathematician Mary Lucy Cartwright discovered characteristic patterns of behavior of chaotic systems, later called strange attractors.

I asked chatgpt's new image model to script and generate a series of comics starring itself as the main character. The results genuinely gave me chills. I'll post them all in a thread below.

Ghibli's founder HATES AI. When shown an AI-created animation, he replied: "I am utterly disgusted. This is an insult to life itself." Here's the original Studio Ghibli philosophy (that the internet has destroyed):

Choosing the right climate policies now will shape generations, but policies must be designed carefully or they can backfire. A recent SFI working group on Effective Public Policy Design explored the ways that policy and people evolve alongside each other. santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

Today, this case serves as a reminder: True wealth isn’t about how much you can take. It’s about how much you can give. And sometimes, the most valuable things in life aren’t measured in money...

The existence of antimatter was first predicted in 1928. Physicist Paul Dirac developed an equation that combined quantum mechanics and Einstein's special relativity. This simple equation showed something surprising: particles that looked just like electrons but with positive

11. The Mud Maid (1997, Cornwall, UK) She sleeps under moss and time. Nature slowly reclaims her.

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📈 Andrey Markov and the Birth of Stochastic Chains In 1906, Russian mathematician Andrey Markov introduced a revolutionary idea: modeling dependent sequences of events using what we now call Markov chains.

The ocean is fascinating and mysterious but also SCARY. These images will leave you speechless. I open thread 🧵 1. Large octopus entering a hole on the beach.