Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is one excerpt: Cowen: Talk me out of this worry: So we agree science is an ecosystem, and there’s always a temptation to want to fund the most dynamic, most productive parts of the ecosystem. And right now, that would probably be A.I. But if you need [...
Well really, two tales of two different dichotomies between devices...
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On Sunday, just before we left for our holiday to Sri Lanka, we started dismantling our dasara doll display.
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How geography shaped the country we know today
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Lecture 3 of Frederic Schuller’s Theoretical Mechanics, translated from the German
Seems like it’s a good time for an open thread. I cannot remember what number we’re up to, so it’s “Potato”. I just had french fries for lunch and ate the longest french fry I have ever seen.1 I should have taken a photo, but I was in consumption mode and not attention mode. My apologies for the ove...
Read slowly. There is no hurry.