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Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
People started realising that those techniques could be used to study other things.
Eugenia Cheng • How to Bake Pi
Even the most numerate scientists have woefully defective intuitions about how many subjects one really needs in a study before one can abstract away from the random quirks and bumps and generalize to all Americans, to say nothing of Homo sapiens.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz • Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller
Michael Nielsen • Augmenting Long-Term Memory
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
“‘Quantum information is like the information of a dream,’” he said. “‘We can’t show it to others, and when we try to describe it we change the memory of it.’”