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Skeptic. Lover of life. @mit BSc '19, MSc '21. Slinger of kickass content @brilliantorg. Quit my PhD to research the physics of living systems the right way.
Cambridge, Massachussetts
Joined February 2014
So grateful to work here, where we can actually build the future of education. <3
.@strickinato @forestfari go behind-the-scenes of our new interactive Python course, where breaking things is expected. With smart autocomplete handling syntax, you focus on the real work: logic, iteration, and debugging. By the end, you’ll have built a cybersecurity system,
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There’s a better way to learn Python. In the era of AI-autocomplete, a missing colon isn’t where beginners should get stuck. With our new Thinking in Python course, you *become the autocomplete*: tap to complete programs, implement correct logic, and actually understand your
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Things mathematicians do, that LLMs still struggle to do: 1/ Mapping a problem to a simpler, isomorphic problem; having novel insights about what problems are isomorphic 2/ Reducing the complexity of the problem to be solved by solving a special case of it first 3/ Checking the
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We suck at this test and yet we’re crushing the OECD on growth. Teaching isn’t a prestige profession in the US, so far that’s worked out “great” for us, and that’s the problem. The people who would have been absolutely amazing teachers instead being hard at work tagging
We need competition in how our kids are educated - the current monopoly is bankrupting us.
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When is noise good? When is slow better than fast? What are the limits to language, & to knowledge? This week on #ComplexityPodcast, @FaritaTasnim (@MIT) & SFI Prof David Wolpert discuss their forthcoming research on the #Thermodynamics of Communication: https://t.co/HhkDGZjDn8
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Very strong opening to a math video. Ok, you have my attention.
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Fascinating work now presented by @FaritaTasnim at @APSMeetings shows how even simple models models of communication channels exhibit non-trivial thermodynamic properties. https://t.co/W9d4Y5gK8N
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Wonderful news! SFI Trustee @B3_MillerValue just gave us the largest donation in the Institute's history — possibly the largest single contribution to complex systems research ever — which he calls "a bet on the future of humanity." 🥳 THANK YOU, BILL! 🎉 https://t.co/bwJFX36GR1
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In the largest single donation in its history, the nonprofit Santa Fe Institute will receive $50 million from legendary investor Bill Miller. The gift will advance the Institute's pioneering science...
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Vince Staples brings the sound of his new self-titled album to life for his Tiny Desk (home) concert.
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Ecstatic to have started my stint as a visiting researcher at Santa Fe Institute, where I engage every day in deep thought about nonequilibrium statistical physics (to describe the emergent order in living systems) - with David Wolpert! This place is a research dream! @sfiscience
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“Neurophysiological evidence for cognitive map formation during sequence learning” - new preprint! https://t.co/rd3S2AOgM8 This was a really fun project, exploring some interesting ideas about how the human brain supports learning abstract latent spaces (1/n)
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Humans deftly parse statistics from sequences. Some theories posit that humans learn these statistics by forming cognitive maps , or underlying representations of the latent space which links items...
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A crucial part of my writing process is to include a blizzard of exclamation points and italicized words, then go back and remove almost all of them. In that first moment I need to let my enthusiasm shine through. Only later can I seem a bit more grown-up about everything.
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Explore the science of intelligence with an intelligent scientist! SFI's Simon DeDeo (@LaboratoryMinds) will teach four graduate seminars on the Future of #Intelligence November-Dec 2021. Open to the public, scholarships available-- details here: https://t.co/6bfteXzJ5Q Pls RT
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🏅 Please RT: Applications are open for the SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships! We offer scholars unparalleled intellectual freedom & support for transdisciplinary research into the biggest questions facing science & society. Apply before 10/24/21: https://t.co/wcMq1WEhzU
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"The numbers that you get for #entropy production depend on how much you coarse-grain the state space. If I measure my brain at the scale of the neurons versus at the fMRI, I'm going to get very different results." @FaritaTasnim (@medialab) abyss-gazing: https://t.co/m9oP6DcHDG
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~ "You're only as fast as your slowest components." i.e., "In the weeds, things move slower than they seem like they should from orbit." @FaritaTasnim (@medialab) on deriving better speed limits for probability flows in nested modular systems: https://t.co/m9oP6DcHDG
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"The speed limit of the evolution of a system is inversely related to the entropy produced." Real-world systems are constrained, path-dependent, modular, hierarchical. But Landauer's bound considers none of this... @FaritaTasnim (@medialab) at SFI now: https://t.co/m9oP6DcHDG
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"Thermodynamic Speed Limits for Multiple, Coevolving Subsystems" Follow this thread for highlights from today's seminar by @FaritaTasnim (@medialab). Stream link: https://t.co/m9oP6DcHDG Abstract: https://t.co/ldVeNlvxQ9
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