Michael Moyer

Executive editor @QuantaMagazine. No longer here. All original posts deleted.

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton have won this year’s @NobelPrize in physics for developing methods that have shaped modern powerful machine learning algorithms. The unusual choice highlights the way that physics inspired some of the earliest neural networks. 🧵

[Michael Moyer @mmoyr]

@rboyle31 @nationalbook Magnificent, congratulations Rebecca!

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Long before the binary 0s and 1s of digital computing, analog computers measured the tides, calculated the position of the planets, and predicted eclipses. @laxmevy and @mmoyr detail the history and strengths of these machines: https://t.co/vBoSqoJNJV

[Ananyo Bhattacharya @Ananyo]

Fabulous piece on the 800 page-proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture, a key pillar of the “grand unified theory of mathematics” by @EricaKlarreich for @QuantaMagazine. Do read!
https://t.co/nvo83nPEGr

[Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker]

New today in @QuantaMagazine: the most pure unadulterated fun I've had reporting a story in my time as a journalist to date.

After decades, an open online collaboration has definitively identified an unusually active computer program called the fifth busy beaver.

1/5

[Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker]

Are you interested in writing about math and working with the great @jordanacep? Apply here to join the @QuantaMagazine team! https://t.co/MkcFtA7PNa

[Douglas Main @Douglas_Main]

Nat Geo laid of all its writers, and most of its old editors. They’re now hiring social media managers, content strategists, SEO editors, etc.

Who needs writers when you could hire new staff to “assist managers [with] best-in-class creative social stunts”?

[Natalie Wolchover @nattyover]

AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities

Using AI, string theorists are finally showing how Calabi-Yau manifolds translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe.

🔥by @walkingthedot

https://t.co/L8YnY3geB2

[Michael Moyer @mmoyr]

@SheerPriya @TIME Congratulations Priya! Richly deserved.

[Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker]

Sheon's explainer is very good! Since Avi Wigderson's work has touched nearly part of the field, the award is a great shameless self-promotion opportunity for all of us CS journalists.

[John Preskill @preskill]

It's wonderful to see Avi receive this recognition for his inestimable influence on theoretical computer science. Congratulations, Avi!

[Thomas Lin @7homaslin]

Apply to be @QuantaMagazine's next news assistant working alongside the best team in science journalism: https://t.co/2bceSCCAGf

[Ananyo Bhattacharya @Ananyo]

The talk relates to using complexity theory to tackle Hawking's black hole information paradox. And @QuantaMagazine has you covered again. Charlie Wood interviewed a bunch of young physicists working on this last year--including Pennington. “It represents to some degree the end of a revolution, rather than a beginning,” he told them. Huge, rich article #SimonsLive https://t.co/OtCBNuh1if

[Michael Moyer @mmoyr]

@laxmevy Good luck to you guys, I know you're going to kick all sorts of ass.

[Harvard Department of Mathematics @HarvardMath]

Listen to our very own Professor Laura DeMarco speak on mathematics as a “whole unexplored universe which has no boundaries!” She joined the @RadInstitute podcast to reconsider not only what math is but also what it can do—and who can do it. #harvardmath https://t.co/a4HPCCu6WG

[Alex Kontorovich @AlexKontorovich]

Great @QuantaMagazine coverage of the "Murmurations" phenomenon: https://t.co/gvUSO8yudd

[Dr Robin George Andrews 🌋☄️ @SquigglyVolcano]

There is probably going to be another eruption in Iceland this week.

That sort of forecasting is often not possible for volcanoes around the world. But it is here.

How come? Read my @QuantaMagazine feature on Iceland’s magma hunters to find out.

[Natalie Wolchover @nattyover]

Hello! I’m back on the job as physics editor @QuantaMagazine and eager for pitches. X’s science journalism community has become something of a bleached coral reef, but any writers out there with story ideas or general interest in working together, please DM me. Thanks! 💡✍️