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Which school was this, and when did you attend?

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There is a very good book on the origins of life on earth by Eric Smith, called "The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth." Here's a YouTube talk with some of the arguments: https://…

Gallistel wrote a book 'Memory and the Computational Brain,' in which he argues that neural storage and computation via synaptic strengthening alone is implausible, and that the br…

Indeed. There is even stronger recent evidence for the role of RNA in intracellular storage of behavioral memories: http://www.eneuro.org/content/5/3/ENEURO.0038-18.2018 Not to men…

Indeed. Eva is a spectacular scientist, and one of the pioneers of this field.

Yes! That is the paper I had in mind! Thanks.

I didn't downvote, but the reason is likely because your comment is off-topic. The parents are talking about experiences un-learning one-sided equality that they picked up programm…

There was a recent interesting paper on the arXiv which argued that the ubiquity of small-world networks was vastly overstated. Can't find the paper anymore - did anyone else see t…

I did some accidental market research on Snap with my girlfriend's 9 year-old cousin this weekend. She had tons of snaps, but informed me that they were almost all blank images. Sh…

Could you give some examples?

You have excluded the sentence which immediately follows his stated income: "The median-priced home in San Francisco costs $1.5 million, and a person needs an annual household inco…

Interesting paper. Do you work in the area? I'm working on proving that memories are in fact stored in genetic material, as was believed back in the 60s. Drop me an email (gauravvm…

You are of course correct. Unfortunately, the OPs suggestion that 'big data' is changing science has become the common belief in many fields, particularly the most prestigious. Sev…

The Nature of Computation is really good.

I'm working on extending this work, now. For those of you interested in the history of memories outside of the brain, I would suggest reading the first chapter of 'The Golem: What …

"Scope of the concept of even baby integration of a function is much much larger, and OP is talking about that." The OP said the opposite, that differentiation is harder 'more fini…

More like `from a computational point of view.' Analytically, integration is much more difficult and richer than differentiation!

Not only that; in response controversy arising from the 2009 essay he explicitly stated that "It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would…

He clarified that he didn't want to revoke rights to vote explicitly as an addendum to the essay (see bottom): https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio... Seems…

There is a nice book about Carlson and his invention - 'Copies in Seconds.'

I broadly agree with you, but I think the issue is more subtle. Ambitious people will always work very hard; the danger of working hard is that it necessitates a degree of path-dep…

This article is not exactly like the others on the front page. Quanta magazine is in general extremely good science reporting. (It's an editorially independent branch of the Simons…

The best way to network in science is to be earnest and unafraid. Earnest in that you take a genuine interest in understanding (and not just undercutting) other people's work, and …

Model performance is discussed in their full paper, here: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/devisag...