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On Twitter, I’ve been chatting with my friend Julia Galef about tensions between thinking creatively and thinking in a way that reduces error.
Of course, all other things being equal, I’m in favour of reducing error in our thinking!
However, all other things are not always equal.
In particular, I believe “there’s a tension, too, between behaviours which maximize accuracy & which maximize creat...
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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
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2011
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Neural Networks and Deep Learning
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2013
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Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
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2000
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Study and Characterization of Exoplanets
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| Bloom's over-exuberant love of the canon - or, at least, his canon! - is great fun to wallow in. I'm not at all convinced that Shakespeare invented humanity, as Bloom seems to think, but it's fun to consider Bloom's over-the-top comments on everythin ...more | |
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| A fun premise: what if decision-making was no longer a bottleneck in human lives? So decisions which formerly took hours, days, even years, were done instead in less than a second? What would it affect? How would the world change? A fun, short, not t ...more | |
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“Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly”
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“A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.”
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“If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.”
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“Function reforms form, perpetually.”
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