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Searching for the numinous. Co-purveyor of https://quantum.country/ 

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    1. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 12 Nov 2018
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      On field finding versus field founding in research:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1020717496301772802 …

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      michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
      In research, both problem finding and problem solving are important. Surprisingly often, problem finding is more important than problem solving.
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    2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 24 Nov 2018
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      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 …

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      michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
      What are the most beautiful video games ever made? Not just visually, but the overall experience?
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    3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 24 Nov 2018
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      Thread introducing an essay from @patrickc and myself, arguing that science has suffered from greatly diminishing returns:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1063417043372859392 …

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      michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
      New essay from @patrickc and myself, arguing that science has suffered from greatly diminishing returns over the past century: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/diminishing-returns-science/575665/ …
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    4. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 6 Dec 2018
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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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      michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
      Massively multiplayer car racing is surprisingly beautiful. Connected to fluid physics, bird flocking, and population genetics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggwPKb_lFw … I can't shake the feeling that there is some rather deep idea here, but I don't know what. pic.twitter.com/jHt7vO0yDD
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    5. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 12 Dec 2018
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      michael_nielsen Retweeted Patrick McKenzie

      I really enjoyed this set of observations on tech, from @patio11https://twitter.com/patio11/status/936615043126370306 …

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      Patrick McKenzie @patio11
      Some people really benefit from hearing advice that everyone knows, for the same reason we keep schools open despite every subject in them having been taught before. In that spirit, here's some quick Things Many People Find Too Obvious To Have Told You Already.
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    6. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 26 Dec 2018
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      michael_nielsen Retweeted Brian Koppelman

      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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      Brian KoppelmanVerified account @briankoppelman
      1)Some thoughts on the value of reading fiction: When I was in my 20s/early 30s, I read 3 or 4 books a week. Mostly fiction. This sounds like a lot to non-writers. But it’s not. It never felt like work. Or if it did, I was on to the next book.
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    7. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 7
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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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      michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
      Gradually curating lists of people who tweet interesting things about some of humanity's great challenges and opportunities. How to make humanity an interplanetary species: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/lists/multiplanetary … How to respond to climate change: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/lists/climate …
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    8. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Mar 2
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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 …

      michael_nielsen added,

      michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
      Encouraged by the University of California's widely-discussed decision to push back against Elsevier: https://www.chronicle.com/article/U-of-California-System/245798 …
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    9. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Mar 19
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      michael_nielsen Retweeted Andy Matuschak

      . @andy_matuschak gives a brief overview of the new mnemonic medium that we developed:https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1108068994605441024 …

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      Andy MatuschakVerified account @andy_matuschak
      📣 Announcing an experimental new tool for thought 🚨 @michael_nielsen and I have been wondering: what happens if we take powerful ideas from cognitive science and deeply integrate them into explanations? Our first experiment in a new "mnemonic" medium: https://quantum.country/qcvc 
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    10. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen May 26
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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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      michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
      Had some fun this afternoon re-analyzing the circuit for quantum teleportation. Here's a proof I found that the circuit works. The circuit to be verified: top two qubits are Alice's, including the state psi to be teleported. Bottom qubit is Bob's - want to show it outputs psi. pic.twitter.com/w7Bl3FPZ1B
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      michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen May 26
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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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      When trying to understand a scientific or mathematical result, I often find it helpful to write what I call discovery fiction.
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        1. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jun 26
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          Some preliminary analysis of how the mnemonic medium project (with @andy_matuschak) is working: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1143989877500891137 …

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        2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jun 27
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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 …

          michael_nielsen added,

          michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
          Have any aphantastics tried visual mnemonic techniques, like the method of loci, memory palaces, etc? Do they work at all for you?
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        3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jun 27
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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 …

          michael_nielsen added,

          michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
          In 2012 I participated in a small group discussion led by @doctorow. I chanced into it, but he painted a picture I've thought about often in the years since, and that has changed the way I see the world.
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        4. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jul 16
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          michael_nielsen Retweeted michael_nielsen

          "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 …

          michael_nielsen added,

          michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
          "The study failed to replicate" is something I often hear, usually with the implication the original study must have been bad, or had something wrong with it. This is a bad misunderstanding of what failure to replicate means.
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        5. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jul 16
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          On "The Science of Science":https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/971949129751396352 …

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          A few observations from "The Science of Science", a useful review article appearing in this week's Science: http://barabasi.com/f/939.pdf 
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        6. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Aug 18
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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 …

          michael_nielsen added,

          michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
          Examples of books (or stories) that you reread years later, & found to be much better? For me: Arrival (Ted Chiang, loved it even the first time); Speaker for the Dead (ditto: loved it at first, even more upon reread); the Great Gatsby (didn't like first time, loved the second)
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        7. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Aug 18
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          michael_nielsen Retweeted michael_nielsen

          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 …

          michael_nielsen added,

          michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
          Best place to go for a night walk near SF? Need a walk/think! (Driving distance is fine.)
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        8. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Sep 8
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          michael_nielsen Retweeted Timothy Gowers

          . @wtgowers's thread-of-threads exploring some fun observations about small sets of real numbers:https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1170687268702556164 …

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          Timothy Gowers @wtgowers
          Following the example of @michael_nielsen I want to try to organize certain of my tweets. This is the start of a super-thread of threads about small sets of real numbers, and I'm adding the tag #gowersmathstweets, which I'll try to do with all such tweets from now on.
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        9. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Sep 18
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          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 …

          michael_nielsen added,

          michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
          Imagine you're a designer or mathematician living in ancient Rome. Being a curious & imaginative sort, used to exploring wild ideas, you ask yourself: is there some way you can improve on the roman numeral system? Might it be possible to find a better way of representing number?
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          10. End of conversation
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        1. Ward Plunet‏ @StartupYou May 29
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          @threader_app please #compile

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        2. Threader‏ @threader_app May 29
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          Hi, you can read this thread from @michael_nielsen here:https://threader.app/thread/1061824470556467200 …

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