harscoat | 2 years ago | on: Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?
OP here, fyi Stuart Kauffman's comment is below on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39131136
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harscoat | 2 years ago | on: OpenAI Rival Mistral Nears $2B Valuation with Andreessen Horowitz Backing
harscoat | 3 years ago | on: Why Wasn't the Steam Engine Invented Earlier?
harscoat | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Practice Wordle with No Limits
really cool :) Cheers!
harscoat | 4 years ago | on: Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)
Same period as "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_(Hamsun_novel)
harscoat | 4 years ago | on: Wordle Is a Love Story
- enriching for non native speaker. (Not so easy to come up with 5 letter correct words.)
harscoat | 4 years ago | on: E.O. Wilson has died
"Thanks for the inspiration and may the ants be ever in your favor." https://twitter.com/phylogenomics/status/1475496023384465408
harscoat | 4 years ago | on: E.O. Wilson has died
"He was so kind & supportive of my work when I was a student—I kept an email he sent me as a postdoc that was v encouraging, it was like a pep talk I would read & re-read in tough times!" https://twitter.com/JessicaLWareLab/status/14754258439629578...
harscoat | 4 years ago | on: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
Summary Pr. John Wettlaufer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezsbf42_RTA&ab_channel=Nobel...
harscoat | 4 years ago | on: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021
eg. Explaining topology with bread donut and bretzel https://phys.org/news/2016-10-nobel-physics-prize-awarded-to...
harscoat | 4 years ago | on: BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury
To see how bare the planet is, with so many cosmic impacts… makes us wonder how fragile a planet with life is
harscoat | 4 years ago | on: What are universals in story, and where do they come from?
"Stories with that structure often have 6 secondary features. These don't always appear with the sympathetic plot, but they're common:
1. The protagonist is appealing (e.g., strong, clever, kind).
2. They are alone & suffer early misfortunes (e.g., they're orphaned or abandoned).
3. They are high-status or tied to high-status individuals (e.g., there's a prophesy about them; they're the child of royalty).
4. They journey to distant places.
5. Their opponents are formidable & repulsive.
6. Anyone who opposes the protagonist suffers or is reformed." -- manvir singh @mnvrsngh
harscoat | 4 years ago | on: What Made Early Humans Smart
Gravity’s Rainbow
harscoat | 5 years ago | on: Minorities of less than 3% regular individuals can overturn social conventions
https://twitter.com/a_baronca/status/1372838300847906820
"Andrea Baronchelli - @a_baronca:
We show that 1 individual can reverse the norm of a group of 100s, and minorities as small as 0.3% of the pop can impose their norm (current thinking assumed 10%). Call it the @GretaThunberg effect?
How? When inds are _less prone to adopt a new norm, their group becomes weaker."
harscoat | 5 years ago | on: Science’s Demons, from Descartes to Darwin and Beyond
Socrate's demon not mentioned? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(classical_mythology)#S...
harscoat | 5 years ago | on: Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
re. Twitter negative comments: sorry, it's very valuable to me. It's easy to curate: I use LIST. I have a focused list ("story") which provides great, relevant information. It seems there is a subgroup of people on Twitter who understand how to use (& how not to use) it / imo Twitter is underrated.
harscoat | 8 years ago | on: How and Why Athletes Go Broke (2009)
you just explained that the most important thing is knowledge not money
harscoat | 8 years ago | on: General and Surprising
"surprising" in patent law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventive_step_and_non-obvious...
harscoat | 9 years ago | on: Modeling the emergence of novelties
Original paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00994
harscoat | 9 years ago | on: Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality
cf. Peter Turchin http://energyskeptic.com/2016/peter-turchin-violence-and-soc...
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