Science is being commoditized. Industrialized discovery > novel insight. That's why "science the shit out of this" line works in The Martian
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Still wading through Deepness in the Sky. It has "science the shit out of this" vibe too. No romance, just legibilized cognition model.
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There's something essentially instrumental about industrialized discovery. What bro-science types fetishize. One sign is empiricism>theory.
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Maybe Feynman vs. Schwinger was where aesthetics started becoming optional extra. With enough compute+data, science can afford to be ugly.
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When I was younger, I was enamored of Gell-Mann idea that science is necessarily beautiful. I'm no longer so sure.
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@traviskorte@vgr whats a random forest and how do they disabuse one of the notion that science is nec. beautiful?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@psygnisfive @traviskorte In machine learning, using a random forest often removes need for judgment/taste.
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