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Over the past several years, Roger Penrose, a noted physicist and philosopher, has suggested that fine structures in the neurons called tubules perform an exotic form of computation called “quantum computing.” Quantum computing is computing using what are called “qu bits” which take on all possible combinations of solutions simultaneously. Just bec... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
theoretical physics
Prashanth Narayan • 1 card

中科院20多年前的文章。我早就听闻杨振宁反对建大型强子对撞机,建议去研究芯片。但是,这几年每次想到这个梗,每次都有不一样的感觉(每一次都深度验证了他的前瞻性)….看这个标题,未来30-40年科技发展将继续向应用方向倾斜。 https://t.co/4oIWYXCSkP

The big advantage of physicists—I think Doyne Farmer may have once said this to me—is not what they have learned, the tools. It’s how they have learned to think. In particular, physicists are quite good at being very, very broad, taking tools from all over the place. That is something that economists are very, very remiss in. It is a b—tch to try t
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
In June 1983, Alexander Grothendieck sits down to write the preface to a mathematical manuscript called Pursuing Stacks . He is concerned by what he sees as a tacit disdain for the more “feminine side” of mathematics (which is related to what I’m calling the solitary creative state) in favor of the “hammer and chisel” of the finished theorem. By el... See more