What are some scientific discoveries of the last 20 years that aren’t getting enough attention?
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A few of my own examples, _not_ drawn from things I work on: I remain very excited about topological matter, new phases of matter, and programmable matter, for reasons I explain here: http://cognitivemedium.com/vme pic.twitter.com/51Cdrgr00p
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Work on causal inference has received much attention over the past 20 years, but it's still very underrated. In a thousand years it will look like the revolution in probability & statistics in the first half of the twentieth century. My short survey: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-imply-causation-then-what-does/ …
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(Note: I very much doubt the theory has reached a mature form. In that sense, it's also like probability and statistics in the early part of the 20th century.)
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Reminds of David Byrne’s “sleeping beauties”
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James Evans has done some work on automated discovery of Sleeping Beauty papers:https://www.pnas.org/content/115/13/3308 …
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