Alex P. Miller

@alexpmil

Ph.D. student at ; concentration in information systems and technology. Former Oregonian.

Philadelphia, PA
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Joined December 2010
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    13 hours ago

    A new theory of how the moon formed.

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    18 hours ago

    Last month, and took their recording gear on Uber rides around the Bay Area. Listen in:

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    20 hours ago

    Years ago, Marvin Minsky explained why "can computers be creative?" is the wrong question...

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    Jun 8

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    Jun 8

    Hey Higher Ed, Why Not Focus On Teaching? : NPR Ed : NPR (includes discussion of work by physicist Carl Wieman)

    1 reply 24 retweets 29 likes
  6. Jun 7

    This is so great. 18,000 applicants, up from 6,000 last round.

    Why are so many people applying to be astronauts? investigates
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  7. Jun 7

    This is a cool new application of deep learning: predicting solutions to hard math problems

    predicts outcomes of long-term physics simulations as well as physical models, but from pixels!
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    Jun 6

    The conclusion to Michael Lewis 2012 Princeton commencement is amazing. They should make seniors memorize it.

    43 replies 1,523 retweets 2,528 likes
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    Jun 6

    Trust is a global fractal. Amazing how top-level trust erosion has percolated down to the smallest of social contexts I inhabit.

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    Jun 5

    Much like the president, I too use Twitter to actively undermine the success of the work I'm actually supposed to be doing.

    59 replies 4,549 retweets 19,132 likes
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    Jun 6

    What's in ? , , , , , , , + courses, realtime sync, history

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  12. Jun 6

    don't not do the thing for ppl who haven't lost something because of what they didn't do but which the UX is explicitly prompting you do to

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    Jun 5

    Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50 - that is both disturbing and startling.

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    Jun 5

    Darpa has committed $60 million to create a “direct cortical interface” — a brain-computer connection

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  15. Jun 5

    One of my favorite bot accounts:

  16. Jun 5

    Yuval Harari, Keynesian beauty contests, tulip markets, ontology, and blockchain. Among my favorite episodes.

    Episode 116 [FINAL] — Blockchain Beauty Contest Blockchains, myths, culture, and yes, bubbles.
  17. Jun 4

    The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

  18. Jun 4

    Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology -- colah's blog

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    Jun 4

    Ive been saying this for decades. Innumeracy, 1989. Alas, message requires regular repetition. Probability vs fear.

    Journalists, please take a break from scaring people and read this study about how we grossly overstate actual risk.
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    Jun 3

    A major delusion that holds us back is the assumption that super successful people have a kind of out-of-reach expertise or intelligence.

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