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Finished, see especially "How not to read these notes" (section 1) and "How you can contribute" (section 2) https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14332

"We can program a computer to do anything. What if we had the same power over the molecules of our bodies?" Almost finished project, you can spend hours in there. https://chemlambd…

I found the previous Hamiltonian Neural Networks [0]. If the authors are here, I'd be interested to use [1] for a version with dissipation. [0] https://greydanus.github.io/2019/05/…

Yes, like linux liberated the pc from windows. Now is much more complicated, because a liberated harware is needed as well. Sigh, this is too much, but at least as you say: a norma…

I upvoted this, but it is not accurate. If you're French then you may be misled by the combination of two signals: "Ecole Polytechnique (X)" (aka "social status") and birth date (a…

Oh sweet memories. I was born in 1967, so I'm older than the author, but the memories are somehow the same. I started with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum clone, called HC85, and with Basic…

Same here. This "it was a dark and stormy night" style is bad writing. I read a lot, I like reading novels. This is just an empty structure. In this particular case the bad writing…

I don't quite understand this conflation of mathematics with category theory. This obsession of some programmers with mathematics, actually with a tiny part which is category theor…

I suppose the same context as serving a drink in a jar.

Waiter delivers a shovel of spaghetti [code], client happy.

:) Probably is a sort of revenge on people more interested in semantics than geometry.

A scenario more interesting than boundless self-replication is Ackermann goo [0], [1]. Grey goo starts with a molecular machine able to replicate itself. You get exponentially more…

Let me check it. If you see this pls vote or reply.

Some numbers: There are 264 posts with animations, a bit more than 1/2 of the original collection, with the possibility to rerun in js the simulations. Whenever possible there is a…

From http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19... opp. to a professed orator, opp. a professed philosopher Comes from http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?do…

There's a great book by Truesdell, named "An Idiot's Fugitive Essays on Science". According to Truesdell, the initial meaning of the word "idiot" was one who does not have preconce…

If you're into lambda calculus or artificial life, then here is a landing page I made for several of my (and contributors) projects. You have here a lambda calculus parser and grap…

No, all insects have 6 legs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect . Spiders have 8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider

Btw, you know that spiders are not insects?

Some trivial mathematical facts. No matter what algorithm you use, you want to make a quasiisometrical embedding of a tree into a finite dimensional space. Or, for a tree the no of…

I don't get it, is "classic" bad? My page is online since 1995 and is still the best way I share my work. There surely are many "classic" style sites, with unique information. I'd …

I second this. Conserved quantities (by extension symmetries) do not compute. Car engines and refrigerators are both thermal engines, but the same conserved quantities are engineer…

I'm interested to know more about it, especially if it can be used for Open Science. As a researcher, I look for the less bloated way to replace a scientific article with a corpus …