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The Cage of Casualness
I. I still remember how shocked I was when I realized that virtually no one at university was serious about studying physics.
Oct 28
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In Praise of Amateurism
I. One of my icks is reading anything that was clearly only written because the author felt like they had to write, not because they actually felt the…
Oct 26
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The Games Mathematicians Play
I. One thing I always found frustrating is that no one properly explained to me what modern mathematicians do.
Oct 9
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February 2025
The Quantum Tower of Babel
"If God is a mathematician, in what dialect does She/He/They/It speak?"
Feb 11
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The unreasonable effectiveness of beauty in science
Tons of famous scientists emphasize the importance of aesthetics.
Feb 6
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How about you read some Einstein instead?
The following quote by Donald Knuth has always resonated with me:
Feb 4
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There is still plenty of low-hanging fruit in science
The case for scientific optimism.
Feb 3
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January 2025
No one can predict how progress is going to happen
Picbreeder is a website that allows users to “breed” evolutionary art.
Jan 29
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The Standard Model of Scientific Progress is Wrong
The scientific method is supposedly this clean process for “acquiring knowledge that has been referred to while doing science since at least the 17th…
Jan 28
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Scientific progress is severly understudied
Right now I’m interested in questions like Is scientific progress slowing down? and, if yes, what might be causing it?
Jan 27
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Links for January 2025
AI Education: Harvard ran a study comparing physics students who work with an AI tutor against a human-led, active learning classroom and saw extremely…
Jan 26
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How scientific writing lost its soul
Whenever I'm reading papers written many decades ago, I'm immediately struck by how different they feel.
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