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    michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 29
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    Reflecting on Rota's characterization of Alonzo Church as "logic incarnate". It's shocking how much and rapidly one can learn from people in deep communion with their subject. Often without noticing what one is learning, including what is felt, what is omitted, & what is askedhttps://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/834278805971668992 …

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    Rota's marvellous defence of lectures. "The person lecturing to us was logic incarnate" (on Alonzo Church) pic.twitter.com/3TbUP2ESxa
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      1. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 29
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        michael_nielsen Retweeted Gavin Schmidt

        A little example from a couple of days ago: https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin/status/1217885474502729728 … (What's important here is what is omitted: almost everything. Or, to put it another way: you gain some sense of what a top climate expert thinks is really important. Priceless.)

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        Gavin SchmidtVerified account @ClimateOfGavin
        Since this comes up a lot, a quick run though of the testable, falsifiable, science that supports a human cause of recent trends in global mean temperature. pic.twitter.com/VfjAuBgQQt
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      2. Indexical Banana‏ @literalbanana Jan 29
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        they let him teach phenomenology and it was one of the best classes I ever took

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      3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 29
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        Rota, I presume? I have no idea who you are, or how old, maybe it was Church, though it seems unlikely :-) (I had dinner with Rota in a Los Alamos Subway a year or so before he passed. Striking character!)

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      1. JT Tyler‏ @JTT329 Jan 30
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        ‘When interrupted..he would pause for a long time until he could recover’. I can’t help but notice that the known ‘brittleness’ of classical AI seems to extend to the psychology / thinking of its inventors as well.

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      1. Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps Jan 30
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        It is perhaps worth noting that the sort of learning to which you (and Rota) allude need not occur in lectures. In Church's case, no other context was available; but Solomon Lefschetz (for example) dispensed this sort of wisdom in every momentary chance encounter, to everyone.

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