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If you could figure out what patterns of neural activity in a 100-dimension population are fundamental to that population – and which are just recycled combinations of those fundamental patterns – you could explain that neural population with fewer than 100 dimensions.
Grace Lindsay • Models of the Mind
(1) New Working Paper: the fundamental driver of growth in modern economies, Total Factor Productivity (TFP), is linear, not exponential.
This is a paper I did not expect to write...
8. First order irrational, second order rational (h/t Chris Paik)
Talia Goldberg • Distribution and conversion models for consumer startups
Proposition: Contain the Small
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
did this by introducing a discounting factor into his recursive definition.
Grace Lindsay • Models of the Mind
[No points 4-6)
Jason Shah • A product manager’s guide to web3
crunching the mathematics that would make sense of the mess of links
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
This curious gain of an effective additional dimension is a general feature of space-filling curves, to which I will return in the next chapter.