On information overload, and Vannevar Bush's essay "As We May Think":https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/979193577229004800 …
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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 …
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I really enjoyed this set of observations on tech, from @patio11https://twitter.com/patio11/status/936615043126370306 …
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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.
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A few of my favourite Twitter lists. https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1081070044648398848 … Additional suggestions for people to add to the lists welcome.
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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 …
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@andy_matuschak gives a brief overview of the new mnemonic medium that we developed:https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1108068994605441024 …
Announcing an experimental new tool for thought 
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A short proof that the circuit for quantum teleportation works:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1131784174203953153 …
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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 …
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Some preliminary analysis of how the mnemonic medium project (with
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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 …
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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 …
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"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 …
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On "The Science of Science":https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/971949129751396352 …
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Which books are startlingly better upon a much later reread? Many extremely thoughtful recommendations in the replies:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1162965264306077696 …
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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 …
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@wtgowers's thread-of-threads exploring some fun observations about small sets of real numbers:https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1170687268702556164 …Show this thread -
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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