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English is not my first language, what do you mean by Codification?

I have a couple I would highly recommend: The first is Stanislaw Lem's "Imaginary Magnitude." Most stories there are written as sort of prefaces to non-existent technical/scientifi…

Just a reminder, that, as the article also says: "Moby-Dick was Cormac McCarthy's favorite book" ... and mine too...

Was just about to post this. Thank you.

I would highly recommend that you read Mandelbrot's books and Nassim Taleb's books. For Mandelbrot, I'd recommend starting with The (Mis)Behavior of Markets. For Taleb, maybe start…

Made me think of that Silicon Valley episode with the Patent Troll. I don't remember it exactly, but I think near the end Richard solves the situation by building a (fake?) music a…

I'm fond of this one, since a friend of mine, Carlos Pérez Delgado, worked on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cellular_automaton . :) (In case it's not super clear, I'm k…

My favorite Von Neumann anecdote/quote is this one: John Von Neumann once said to Felix Smith: "Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." T…

I disagree... Von Neumann went beyond being a King of Kings, the man was a God (or a "Monster Mind" according to Feynman) :)

Good news is, if the imitator is smart enough, they can become experts... (see "Ripley Underground" by Patricia Highsmith for more info...) :)

I believe this is also tied to La Subida del Monte Carmelo from San Juan de la Cruz. I'm oversimplifying, but basically it goes like this: As San Juan climbs Monte Carmelo, he find…

Good point. Here are some notes on it based on what I've observed happens in Academia and in other environments: I think handwaving comes in different flavors: - Handwaving and not…

Tao... What can I say... Always great work. Haven't read a single bad contribution from him. And I've read quite a bit...

Met the man in person, had a really long chat with him. Made me realize how he truly was one of the smartest people alive at the time. Really sad news...

And to think this is the "level 1" type of paradox in statistics and probability... It's a fun area.

I like your way of thinking about Audiobooks as "Audio books are a transformation function applied to physical books." They also help sometimes in getting the "musicality" of a wor…

100% with you on Jaynes and Barbour. Jaynes' book is a game changer, but I particularly love that you mentioned Barbour and his work. On Barbour's work: Apart from being an incredi…

Thank you for this! I had spotted some errors here and there, but it's always good to have them in one place. I think we are all in the same wagon when I say that even with those r…

As a Mathematician who worked in Theoretical Physics for a bit, I'm happy to hear that there's people out there interested in the area. Maths often get a bad rep, but at their core…

Thank you so much for this!

Beat me to it... I posted it without realizing somebody else had already posted it. Gotta love Prof. Hossenfelder.

Related: "I don't believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics. (The most uplifting video I'll ever make.)" by Sabine Hossenfelder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Mq6gmPo0s

I hope this helps anyone suffering from burnout (and other types of pain...): https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/art_painp... Not necessarily a methodology/techniqu…

While reading your comment I realized that being "confidently wrong" is actually really human, so... yay? I mean, that's one step closer to machines thinking like humans, right? :)…

Interesting article... As a side note, I have noticed that sometimes people that move into management from a technical position seem to not be fully aware that management is not on…