Richard Feynman: “Fiddling around is the answer”
Via Eric Gilliam‘s excellent FreakTakes. I got to Princeton, and the first thing, when I was there and I went to the physics building, I… Read More »Richard Feynman: “Fiddling around is the answer”
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Richard Feynman on probability fluctuations
The Feynman Lectures on Physics are available online courtesy of Caltech. Here’s an elegant description of probability in the real world: See also: Who Says?Decisions… Read More »Richard Feynman on probability fluctuations
Fish Forks: behavioural individuality among genetically identical fish…
… and the impossibility of equality. This is an interesting little study on the origins of individuality, diversity, and inequality (in fish). Recommended. Behavioral individuality… Read More »Fish Forks: behavioural individuality among genetically identical fish…
Why isn’t the mule regarded as a species?
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A… Read More »Why isn’t the mule regarded as a species?
The Map Is Not The Territory
Today’s helpful reminder comes via this week’s The Whippet (highly recommended): The Limits of Scale “And then came the grandest idea of all ! We… Read More »The Map Is Not The Territory
Reading list – Scott Cunningham’s Causal Inference: The Mixtape
A friend shared this fantastic resource about [statistical] Causal Inference, about which I know very little. This book (and website) looks like a great place… Read More »Reading list – Scott Cunningham’s Causal Inference: The Mixtape
Richard Hamming c. 1995 on why computers are (going to be) a thing
This is mostly still true – perhaps the part about how we reprogram computers has changed, because they are often programmed to “train” themselves through… Read More »Richard Hamming c. 1995 on why computers are (going to be) a thing
Richard Hamming on aiming for greatness, education and developing style
I have to get you to quit your modesty. I have to get you individually to respond to my challenge that you’re going to be… Read More »Richard Hamming on aiming for greatness, education and developing style
Recommendation: Richard Hamming on The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
I discovered this lecture via James Clear’s site. Richard Hamming was a mathematician, an alumni both of the Manhattan Project and of Bell Labs in… Read More »Recommendation: Richard Hamming on The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
Patricia Fara on cumulative unhistoric acts
When I first finished reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch in my early twenties, I resolved to live by her concluding insight that even unhistoric acts, small… Read More »Patricia Fara on cumulative unhistoric acts