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Really grateful for Twitter. Seeing the tweets flow by feels like access to some great super-genius for the ages. (Quite serious.)
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More generally, it’s plausible that most powerful ideas are best expressed in executable form. And so unless academic journals (or their replacements in the political economy of science) become executable, more and more of the best ideas will come from outside academia
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Now, many powerful ideas are better expressed as systems, prototypes, and protocols (http, tcp/ip, BTC, mother of all demos, Dynabook etc). But academia hasn't caught up, so much of that work is coming from outside academia.
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Historically, a brilliant thing about academia was that it turned powerful ideas into public goods, by incentivizing scientists to publish research papers.
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@michael_nielsen has synthesized many of his observations on serious use of Anki as part of his creative work: http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html It's become a very powerful tool in my life, but I've only taken the first few steps here. Learning how to learn!
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The essay explains a tonne of use patterns for the personal memory system Anki. It’s a much more in-depth version of my tweet storm:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/957763229454774272 …
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New essay on “Augmenting Long-term Memory”: http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
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Bell’s law of computer classes: (1) established market class computers remain constant in price (but get better functionality); and (2) every decade a lower-priced class is introduced, and becomes a new market:pic.twitter.com/TvrBD1rDpe
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Are aphantastics - people with no “inner eye” - able to use visualization-based memory techniques such as the method of loci or memory palaces?
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Chanced to hear the end theme from Schindler’s List tonight. First time in years, and I wasn’t consciously aware of it, but began to get upset and emotional. Had no idea why until I noticed the music. What an astounding story.
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Estimated distribution of global incomes, 1988 and 2018. Inequality appears to have very slightly reduced (maybe within errors sizes). Note: that can be true and within-country inequality may still increase for many countries.https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1007183886269534208 …
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An estimate that there are ~26 different synaptic strengths: https://elifesciences.org/articles/10778 pic.twitter.com/M9Q16X2ZUD
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I think this sets a record for long-now thinking. The trillion-year plan.https://twitter.com/dbiello/status/1012703607391543297 …
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At risk of what? Not succeeding? Sounds like they have about a 1% chance of not succeeding (or 21%, by the stricter standard). Very low risk.
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A European Research Council report suggests 79% of projects they fund “achieved a major scientific advance”, & only 1% make no contribution. Also, that they fund mostly “high risk” work I don’t know what “high risk” means if almost e’thing is succeeding:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05325-4?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf191358728=1 …
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“But can a machine play?” by @autotranslucence https://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/05/28/but-can-a-machine-play/ … Interesting reflections on the value of goals and optimization.pic.twitter.com/4k3Cc10O74
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@nayafia with a great essay on independent research: https://nadiaeghbal.com/independent-research …pic.twitter.com/k7XCnHUwRH
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In particular, they apparently look for a high degree of disagreement among reviewers, and to create a diverse portfolio. This is the opposite of how much funding often works.pic.twitter.com/MW0P0qrFJR
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I also hadn’t realized to what extent they operate independent of peer review. The graph here repays study: only a weak correlation between review score and which projects were funded.pic.twitter.com/vDgHcEhadA
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This account of how DARPA works is surprisingly interesting: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c14096.pdf … I underestimated both how flat it is, and how much authority the 100 program managers have to decide their own programs.
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