On the limits to longevity across species:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1039224647873490950 …
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"What's something that strikes you as very unusual that very smart people are working on?" With many interesting replies:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/925949736112156673 …
A sorta similar thread which I loved, from @patrickc: "Where do you most often come across interesting ideas—especially weird or surprising ones?"https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/967548201615044608 …
"What are some books, videos, articles, papers, and essays you've revisited over and over, perhaps for many years?" (With many of mine - things I've often revisited > 10 times)https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/968032549464244224 …
My overview of a lovely (& very informative) article from earlier in 2018 on the "Science of Science":https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/971949129751396352 …
On field finding versus field founding in research:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1020717496301772802 …
A tonne of thoughtful replies to my question: what are the most beautiful video games you have played?https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1066051207985192960 …
Thread introducing an essay from @patrickc and myself, arguing that science has suffered from greatly diminishing returns:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1063417043372859392 …
On massively multiplayer car racing, emergence, and the notion that there can be two completely different & correct explanations for the same phenomenonhttps://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/962826600403296256 …
I really enjoyed this set of observations on tech, from @patio11https://twitter.com/patio11/status/936615043126370306 …
A thoughtful, stimulating thread on how reading fiction can change you: https://twitter.com/briankoppelman/status/1077329236149571584 … I suspect much of this can be true of other media, including painting, music, and video games. Also related: Ebert's observation that movies can be machines for generating empathy.
A few of my favourite Twitter lists. https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1081070044648398848 … Additional suggestions for people to add to the lists welcome.
On cultivating a thriving ecosystem of scientific publishing startups, and the role of for-profits and not-for-profits in an open scientific future:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1101997243786117120 …
. @andy_matuschak gives a brief overview of the new mnemonic medium that we developed:https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1108068994605441024 …
A short proof that the circuit for quantum teleportation works:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1131784174203953153 …
Where does that teleportation circuit come from anyway? A short piece of Twitter discovery fiction, explaining a plausible story by which you might have come to discover the circuit for quantum teleportation in the first place:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1132063254849527808 …
Some preliminary analysis of how the mnemonic medium project (with @andy_matuschak) is working: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1143989877500891137 …
I ask whether people without a mind's eye (aphantastics) are able to use memory palace techniques. Many of the replies were really remarkable!https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1144281873197096961 …
On the challenge of finding governance principles (including technical & architectural ideas) for the software layer mediating the systems that run our world:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1144445213554798593 …
"That study failed to replicate" is often treated as a condemnation. Reality is much more complicated, and failure to replicate means little, without much more information:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/993134787224190976 …
On "The Science of Science":https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/971949129751396352 …
Which books are startlingly better upon a much later reread? Many extremely thoughtful recommendations in the replies:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1162965264306077696 …
Where's the best place to go for a night walk near San Francisco? Many thoughtful, generous replies:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1162554181346942976 …
. @wtgowers's thread-of-threads exploring some fun observations about small sets of real numbers:https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1170687268702556164 …
If all you knew was the roman numerals, how could you invent a better way of representing numbers?https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1174420006907473920 …
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