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"First, you copy the master. Then, you master the master" Can't find the source of the quote but it was about the Chinese approach to learning.

Counting bits was the bottleneck in the genomic scan I co-authored (Kanoungi et al. 2020). popcnt resulted in insane perfomance gains comared to all other methods. However, we re-d…

Well actually you are starting to convince me of the opposite. My horizon is limited to the galaxy. The hypothesis here is that the Earth is an early bloomer in the Milky Way. Then…

There is indeed as far as I know some evidence that we are early bloomers https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015... Half of the stars might be 9 billion years…

Imagine aliens of the future for whom the Fermi paradox does not arise, because the galaxy is teeming with what used to be human.

I can't quite follow how the "early bloomers" theory would imply either of those two conclusions. What I meant is the concept that our galaxy is young and the conditions just becam…

We might as well be among the first ones. I find the idea quite fascinating, it kind of puts the Earth back into the center and makes us special in a way.

"Cave of Forgotten Dreams"? Thats about the Chauvet Cave, but indeed very interesting as well.

Result of a roundtable discussion wuth concerned citizens? Not convinced, I'm with Hans Rosling on this topic https://youtu.be/FACK2knC08E

Menachem Begin bombed the King David Hotel

> "In the last decade, the field of algebraic geometry was set on fire by “perfectoid spaces” rather than “Scholze spaces” because Peter Scholze kept on calling them that in his ta…