Wow

Well let me tell you about a little thing called The Linguistics Wars....

Exploring whether to use past data or start with a blank slate finds that under some conditions data can lead agents to look under the lamppost, constraining search and harming payoffs, from Hoelzemann, Manso, Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️, and @Matteo Tranchero nber.org/papers/w32401

Fascinating work. I've learned a lot from this project and way of thinking over the years. An excellent advance to the framework of exploration/exploitation via the analysis of data-driven vs. theory-driven search.

This looks like an incredible resource.

Mathematicians throw shade like no others

give each pixel a random Pokemon type, and then battle pixels against their neighbors, updating each pixel with the winning type (using the Pokemon type chart)

we quickly see areas of fire > water > grass > fire, electric sweeping over, ground frontiers taking over etc etc

Do not whine...
Do not complain.
Work harder.
Spend more time
alone.

—Joan Didion

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

- Richard P. Feynman

A palindromic prime is a prime number that is also a palindromic number – e.g. 11, 101, 131

The largest known palindromic prime is 10²⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰⁷ - 10¹¹²⁷¹⁹⁴ - 10⁸⁷²⁸¹² - 1, which is 2,000,007 digits long

Never underestimate a girl! 😂

Nature paper and Cheit award in the same year 🤯 Absolute legend.

Inspiring for young researchers. Persistence and resilience are the name of the game.

if you are interested in the impact of AI on the human mind or to discuss more general cognitive science topics, consider submitting to the next AISC conference in Rome (Sept 18-20). Info and CfP: aisc2024.istc.cnr.it

Very interesting paper in Science Magazine with exciting empirical evidence of complex contagions dynamics. Looking forward to seeing future exploration of how friendship seeding taps into complex paths. Congrats Nicholas A. Christakis and Airoldi

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As a 90s kid myself, this is hilariously accurate. I did all of these things. I must have been bored a lot.

Thank you Mark Bittman & Kate Bittman for featuring an excerpt of THE GOOD EATER on Mark Bittmanproject 🌿 Read below 👇

“Nina is a vegan, but not a militant one; she understands that the food system – and individuals’ eating – is a complicated thing, and looks at the “How should we…