michael_nielsen on Twitter: "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://t.co/qs7JHwQvPn"

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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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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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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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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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michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 12 Dec 2018

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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 …

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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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michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Mar 19

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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 …

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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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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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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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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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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 …

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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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