Sublime

There is no Newtonian law of markets; they are all ephemeral relationships in a sea of noise and the only way you can do that and capture non-linearity and complexity is with a system that is rich enough to be able to contain all the models, so a universal approximator—that’s what neural nets are—and allows you to do that.

Once its goal is reached, an alliance may dissolve. The shared goal is the nucleus of the partnership.

A single molecule of glucose could produce between thirty and thirty-six molecules of ATP through aerobic respiration, but only two molecules of NADPH

While scientific progress, then, proceeds by curiously exploring adjacent possibilities, preference is given to work closely tied to existing science and conducted by a privileged subset of scientists.