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Ergodicity, What's It Mean
Ensemble averages and time averages
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,038 posts.
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The Future of Mathematics
[This is a guest post by Jeremy Avigad. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “Mathematics underwent, in the nineteenth century, …
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“The Mind in the Wheel” lays out a new foundation for the science of mind
OR: the ideas your mother warned you about
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The Dead Planet Theory
No one does anything, the bar is lower than you think
1505
Supersonic Electric Flight
This post is inspired by the recent press release about the Rolls Royce Accel, an experimental electric aircraft being built to attempt the electric speed record. Close friends know I’ve been…
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Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong
Yesterday several people asked my opinion of a preprint claiming to solve the Graph Isomorphism problem in deterministic polynomial time. I responded: If I read all such papers, then I wouldn’t hav…
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Can you see the flag on the Moon with a telescope?
The answer is basically "not a chance". No Earthbound telescope can see the flag on the Moon. Why not? For openers, the Earth's atmosphere is never steady enough to allow resolution below about one arc second for most locations. Beyond that, the telescope required to "see" the flag would need to be absolutely huge!…
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What Math Do You Need for Physics?
Chad Orzel has a very sensible piece at Forbes, headlined What Math Do You Need For Physics? It Depends, which addresses the question of what math a physicist like him (experimental AMO physics) re…
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Homology
Xoilac TV trực tiếp bóng đá HD hàng đầu Việt Nam, đường truyền ổn định, đa dạng link trực tuyến, đa dạng giải đấu, BLV chuyên môn cao và hoàn toàn miễn phí.
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The Mathematics of Crochet
I remember thinking at school when will I ever in my “real life” use maths. Well much to my utter surprise I’ve come to the stark realisation that there is a link between mathematics and crochet. …
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What happens when the public lose confidence in academic findings?
In an important new paper, Rafael Ahlskog and Sven Oskarsson show that half of the effect size in observational studies, even in conservative estimates, is composed of confounding.
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The Relativity of Wrong (1989)
I received a letter from a reader the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read. Nevertheless, I tried to make it out just in case it might prove to be important.
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Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws
A wintertime climate change solution
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Potato Diet Riff Trial: Sign Up Now, Lol
When we finished the Potato Diet Community Trial, we found ourselves in a pickle. The diet worked — people lost 10.6 lbs on average over only four weeks — and we had basically no idea why. No idea …
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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
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Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms
ex program, en farm
1521
How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything
In his TED Talk, Stephen Wolfram covers the emergence of space by the application of computational rules to spacetime, gravity and quantum mechanics to AI and LLMs. Computational irreducibility and the ruliad.
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Not Mysticizing System Dynamics
A system dynamics model, properly considered, is just an analogy dressed up in a bit of formalism.
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What Will Transformers Transform?
Generative Pre-trained Transformer models (GPTs) are now all the rage and have inspired op-eds being written by everyone from Henry Kissinger (WSJ) to Noam Chomsky (NYTimes) in just the last month. That sure is some hype level.
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What happens when Betelgeuse explodes?
It’s one of the nearest red supergiants to us, and a supernova is only a matter of time. What are we in for when it happens?
1525
Quaternions and spherical trigonometry
Hamilton’s quaternion number system $latex {\mathbb{H}}&fg=000000$ is a non-commutative extension of the complex numbers, consisting of numbers of the form $latex {t + xi + yj + zk}&f…
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Lost Civilizations of the Andes
Fig. 5.1 Wall in in Hatunrumiyoc street, Cuzco. Polygonal stones usually have pillowed (convex) faces and bevelled, sunken joints.
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Origami-Inspired Phased Arrays Are Reshaping the Future of Antennas
Folding antennas into different shapes to create near infinite radiation patterns.
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WHO aspartame brouhaha
the territory under dispute