michael_nielsen

@michael_nielsen

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  1. Fastgjort tweet
    11. apr.

    Really grateful for Twitter. Seeing the tweets flow by feels like access to some great super-genius for the ages. (Quite serious.)

    4 svar 19 retweets 143 likes
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    One of the most original & stimulating explanations of the value of free speech I've ever read.

    I don't agree with everything stands for these days, but his defense of free speech is exceptionally moving.
    10 retweets 19 likes
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    Richard Adams passed away: Watership Down was an 8th birthday gift from my Aunt & Uncle, I adored it, &still have it

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  4. for 19 timer siden

    Non-prophetic architecture theory? If so, I approve.

    Fascinating excerpt from "How Buildings Learn". Never realized McLuhan was riffing off of Churchill.
    1 svar 1 retweet 10 likes
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    :)

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    Beautiful lies, from

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  7. 26. dec.

    Vera Rubin 1928-2016. "The conclusion is inescapable that nonluminous matter exists beyond the optical galaxy" 1980:

    3 svar 109 retweets 119 likes
  8. 26. dec.

    True while writing, too, tho gains in writing seem harder won. Enjoy on compression-oriented programming:

    Eliminating repetitive code is such a useful heuristic that it's almost as if it had some kind of insight.
    1 retweet 8 likes
  9. 26. dec.

    Fascinating excerpt from "How Buildings Learn". Never realized McLuhan was riffing off of Churchill.

    Dette tweet er ikke tilgængeligt.
    4 retweets 28 likes
  10. 26. dec.

    There is much truth in this.

    Writing is like reading except the book is trying to kill you
    1 svar 22 retweets 67 likes
  11. 24. dec.

    Fascinating work on growing machines, by Saul Griffith 2004 See, eg, machines replicating

    22 likes
  12. 24. dec.

    Pinker has a very pointed related comment in "Better Angels":

    It is strange! Seems to be a feeling that if you point out how the world is improving, you are somehow papering over ways in which it’s bad.
    1 svar 2 retweets 6 likes
  13. 24. dec.

    Wonderful data viz. The text is excellent too, worth reading!

    I have written a short history of how living conditions have changed globally over the last two centuries:
    1 svar 26 retweets 75 likes
  14. 24. dec.

    Over the last decades child mortality declined in every single country in the world. More on Our Wold in Data:

    7 svar 240 retweets 222 likes
  15. 24. dec.

    Fascinating to watch 's mentions. So many people who can't stand the idea the world is getting better in important ways.

    1 retweet 17 likes
  16. 24. dec.

    Excellent visual explanation of the Riemann zeta function & the Riemann hypothesis, by

    32 retweets 85 likes
  17. 21. dec.

    Enjoyed the photos (text isn't detailed). Surprised there's not more experimental work in this space. Eg an open source biosphere project

    Biosphere 2 was conceived of by a man named John Allen.
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  18. 21. dec.

    A lovely little animated proof

    A proof that 1+2+...+ n-1 = (n choose 2). Via
    2 svar 3 retweets 20 likes
  19. 21. dec.

    . makes the wonderful observation that reading & writing are, in their respective ways, like mass forms of induced synesthesia

    3 svar 7 retweets 24 likes
  20. 20. dec.

    Smell-O-Vision: 1960 system to release scent during projection of a movie. Maybe needed some marketing help.

    1 svar 5 likes
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