Collin Farquhar

nullius in verba

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https://t.co/w00NDEGlO2

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I support starting a sentence with "And".

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@DiracGhost Nice! Are you aware of any exercises for the text?

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New paper version out!

Resource analysis of a quantum algorithm for a computational fluid dynamics problem

https://t.co/0XEZmYb0b1

@ZapataComputing

[Collin Farquhar @Farquhar13]

"A technical argument by a trusted author, which is hard to check and looks similar to arguments known to be correct, is hardly ever checked in detail." - Voevodsky

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This paper from 2012 is great: https://t.co/4W78QLcfLJ

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@heddamorch How is the validity of a nonphysical idea judged?

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"Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills." - Schopenhauer

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@paulg https://t.co/snxaYjyWwB

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Environment and community:

"You might think that if you had enough strength of mind to do great things, you'd be able to transcend your environment... Most people who did great things were clumped together in a few places where that sort of thing was done at the time. -@paulg

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping."

-- Hubert Reeves

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Using ML for math is older than I thought:

"The modern usage of kernels took off in the early 20th century, when the English mathematician James Mercer used them for solving integral equations."
https://t.co/NQKKe2ggHc via @QuantaMagazine

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"The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself." - Hermann Hesse

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@geohotarchive is genuinely one of my favorite musicians

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@michael_nielsen I like that it implies a literal interpretation is the wrong way to read religious texts. Understanding wisdom requires a different mindset.

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If you can tolerate the possibility that you also might be intelligently designed😉

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I think "Artificial Intelligence" may be a bad term for it.

"Artificial" intelligence implies it's not genuine.

As in, it's not X it's artificial X.

I think "Designed Intelligence" could be a better term for engineered machine AND biological intelligence.

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@DavidDeutschOxf @lexfridman I was expecting the word "absolute" to be "relative" instead. With the idea being something like: every point in space has a relative light cone for its past and future.

What is meant by "absolute" here?

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"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We're such optimists

We put our cities on islands