Mindscape 235 | Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind. More than one of Andy's big ideas squeezed into a single action-packed podcast. #MindscapePodcast
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It's fine to have some quirky ceremonial national customs. But no modern country should have hereditary offices have anything to do with government.
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Very appreciative of the losing a few games in order to make their ultimate comeback and victory all the more thrilling. Solid customer service.
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Weird life out there in the Pacific garbage patch.
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An ecosystem hardly anyone studies. Let me introduce you. There are blue button jellies. Flower-shaped jellies that float on the surface and shimmer and pulse, like stars...
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I have always believed that greatness emerges when talent meets relentless dedication. Joel’s season was legendary and the MVP award is the latest milestone of his decorated career. It has been a privilege to watch Joel over the last three seasons & I know this won’t be his last… Show more
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James Harden’s message to the team after a playoff career high 45 points in the upset win… “it’s one game.”
He’s locked in. #HereTheyCome
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Only undefeated team in the playoffs!
REMEMBER WHO YOU'RE DEALING WITH
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Sixers vs Celtics. Brings me back to my childhood.
No tonight, but no matter. We have .
Pizza has been ordered. LFG.
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New interview with Andy Clark by about his new book The Experience Machine!
Mindscape 235 | Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind
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SPIRES, the forerunner of INSPIRE, was the first U.S. website. See the history of bringing SPIRES to the web at in archivist Jean Deken's eprint
"First in the web, but where are the pieces?"
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As a fun aside, while putting this together I did train a model on Ulysses, and found the results basically indistinguishable from the text
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I have figured out how James Joyce wrote Ulysses. He trained GPT on Harry Potter, but stopped after just a few rounds of training.
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Andy's new book is The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality. The mind doesn't passively observe; it anticipates, models, and interacts with the world in crucial ways.
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“Today is the fun part of the history of the universe.”
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Got word yesterday that Stanley Deser, one of the giants of relativity, passed away. He is the D of ADM, contributed to foundational work in supergravity, showed 1-loop renormalizability of GR+Maxwell, and so much more. May his memory be a blessing
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Guys, Maggie is the absolute tops. Always thorough always smart always a joy to read. Anybody would be lucky to have her.
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It has been an amazing run at @FiveThirtyEight but I was laid off today. I have deeply loved working on this team. My editors and coworkers past and present have been amazing and I have done so much work at this site that I am incredibly proud of. Anybody need a science writer?
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Would be good to get the history straight if one wants to appeal to tradition.
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It’s okay to choose the third option. It won’t label you as an uncouth heathen. Takes all kinds to populate the world.
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Dash of bitters in a martini?
- Lovely28.5%
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- Don’t drink martinis50.6%
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Steven Weinberg's 1965 Phys.Rev. article
"Infrared photons and gravitons"
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reaches 1,000 citations.
#topcites @APSPublishing
This is an extreme case of a sleeping beauty. With very few citations in its first 40 years.
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To find the lists that someone curates -- go to their profile, click "More" in the left sidebar, then "Lists." Or on mobile, go to their profile, and there is a little "List" icon on the left side.
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On today's episode of #MindscapePodcast I mentioned that there is a Twitter List including accounts of all previous guests -- here it is!
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Here is the tweet that led me to this episode.
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In the eloquent words of the Jonas Brothers, now I'm speechless, over the edge, and just breathless.
@LugerLab @tobias_warnecke - what did you just discover???? What will we do with textbooks now?!
H/t @leslievosshall twitter.com/tobias_warneck…
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Mindscape 234 | Tobias Warnecke on Cellular Structure and Evolution. Histones in bacteria, who knew? #MindscapePodcast
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Kind review of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe by in . "Anyone who is interested in fundamental physics is encouraged to read this book." That's gotta be, like, at least a million people, right?
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Question for other professors: do you "seed" the tip jar at the front of the lecture hall by putting singles or fivers in there?
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One of my favorite podcasters () interviewing one of my favorite economists (Amy Finkelstein) about my current research topic: insurance markets
The web at its best🤗
Sean Carroll: Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information
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This is a good video. And it jives well with what I argued in “Corruptible”: that the systems of power we’ve designed attract and reward power-hungry narcissists who see power as a goal in itself and will do anything—performative anger included—to cling to it.
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I’ve been in Congress for 100 days.
Most of the really angry voices here are faking it.
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This graphic illustrates the greatness of , who doesn’t even appear on it. He did have the highest scoring average in the NBA. But he scores from every distance, rather than specializing in just one.
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That's likely my proudest media accomplishment: being on Mindscape, thanks again for the invite Sean!
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Mindscape 233 | Hugo Mercier @hugoreasoning on Reasoning and Skepticism. Why did we start thinking in terms of reasons, and why aren't we better at it? #MindscapePodcast
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Hugo's recent book is Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe. The biggest issue is not that we are too gullible; it's that we're too reluctant to let in contrary information.
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Mindscape 233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism. Why did we start thinking in terms of reasons, and why aren't we better at it? #MindscapePodcast
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Three and a half minutes, every second is priceless.
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