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Bookmarked From bit to it: How a complex metabolic network transforms information into living matter by Andreas Wagner (BMC Systems Biology) Background Organisms live and die by the amount of...
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👓 Random passwords; Not easy to see | jeena.net
Read Random passwords Not easy to see by Jeena (jeena.net) Even if you look really close.
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Read Blue Brain solves a century-old neuroscience problem (ScienceDaily) New research explains how the shapes of neurons can be classified using mathematical methods from the field of algebraic...
View Article👓 Bob Gallager on Shannon’s tips for research | An Ergodic Walk
Annotated Bob Gallager on Shannon’s tips for research (An Ergodic Walk) Gallager gave a nice concise summary of what he learned from Shannon about how to do good theory work: Simplify the problem...
View Article📺 The Bit Player (Trailer) | IEEE Information Theory Society
Watched The Bit Player (Trailer) from IEEE Information Theory Society The Bit Player Trailer from IEEE Information Theory Society on Vimeo. In a blockbuster paper in 1948, Claude Shannon introduced...
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👓 Robert J. McEliece, 1942–2019 | Caltech
Read Robert J. McEliece, 1942–2019 (caltech.edu) Alumnus and engineering faculty member Robert J. McEliece has passed away. May is apparently the month that many of the greats in information theory...
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❤️ lpachter tweeted I once asked Robert McEliece whether he would mentor me.
Liked a tweet by Lior Pachter (Twitter) I once asked Robert McEliece whether he would mentor me. I told him I liked combinatorics and it seemed relevant for EE. He explained that "you find an...
View Article📑 Solomon Golomb (1932–2016) | Stephen Wolfram Blog
Annotated Solomon Golomb (1932–2016) by Stephen Wolfram (blog.stephenwolfram.com) in June 1955 he wrote his final report, “Sequences with Randomness Properties”—which would basically become the...
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👓 Solomon Golomb (1932–2016) | Stephen Wolfram
Read Solomon Golomb (1932–2016) by Stephen Wolfram (blog.stephenwolfram.com) The Most-Used Mathematical Algorithm Idea in History An octillion. A billion billion billion. That’s a fairly conservative...
View Article📑 Solomon Golomb (1932–2016) | Stephen Wolfram Blog
Annotated Solomon Golomb (1932–2016) by Stephen Wolfram (blog.stephenwolfram.com) As it happens, he’d already done some work on coding theory—in the area of biology. The digital nature of DNA had been...
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Replied to a tweet by John Stewart (Twitter) What are ways to engage students in conversation around “salvation through technology.” #domains19 One example I’ve heard: “No worries about our planet...
View Article🔖 Origins Of Life | Complexity Explorer
Bookmarked Origins Of Life (complexityexplorer.org) About the Course: This course aims to push the field of Origins of Life research forward by bringing new and synthetic thinking to the question of...
View Article👓 What can Schrödinger’s cat say about 3D printers on Mars? | Aeon | Aeon Essays
Read What can Schrödinger’s cat say about 3D printers on Mars? by Michael Lachmann and Sara Walker (Aeon | Aeon Essays) A cat is alive, a sofa is not: that much we know. But a sofa is also part of...
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He became a mark because there was an imbalance of information between himself and the grifters who had targeted him.
View Article📺 EDUCE: Imaging the Herculaneum Scrolls | YouTube
Watched Imaging the Herculaneum Scrolls from YouTube The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius covered the city of Herculaneum in twenty meters of lava, simultaneously destroying the Herculaneum scrolls through...
View Article🔖 Digital Restoration Initiative
Bookmarked Digital Restoration Initiative (Digital Restoration Initiative) The written word has been used throughout history to chronicle and contemplate the human experience, but many valuable texts...
View Article🔖 The En-Gedi Scroll (2016) | Internet Archive
Bookmarked The En-Gedi Scroll (2016) (Internet Archive) The data and virtual unwrapping results on the En-Gedi scroll. See the following papers for more information: Seales, William Brent, et al....
View Article🔖 GLTR (glitter) v0.5
Bookmarked GLTR from MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and HarvardNLP (gltr.io) This demo enables forensic inspection of the visual footprint of a language model on input text to detect whether a text could be...
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👓 Humane Ingenuity 9: GPT-2 and You | Dan Cohen | Buttondown
Read Humane Ingenuity 9: GPT-2 and You by Dan Cohen (buttondown.email) This newsletter has not been written by a GPT-2 text generator, but you can now find a lot of artificially created text that has...
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