- Machine learning and the physical sciences, https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.91.045002
- Emergence of singularities from decoherence: Quantum catastrophes, https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.063628
- Researchers just found water ice inches below Mars’ surface, http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/12/water-just-inches-below-martian-surface
- The Causal Theory of Views, https://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-the-causal-theory-of-views
- 2019 Data Breach Hall of Shame: These were the biggest data breaches of the year, https://www.cnet.com/news/2019-data-breach-hall-of-shame-these-were-the-biggest-data-breaches-of-the-year/
Monthly Archives: December 2019
Reading List (Dec 22, 2019)
- Choose your 2019 Breakthrough of the Year!, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/choose-your-2019-breakthrough-year
- DPPy: DPP Sampling with Python, http://jmlr.org/papers/v20/19-179.html
- New Spaceship Sail Self-Centers, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v12/143?utm_campaign=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailalert
- Make Your Job Application Robot-Proof, https://www.wsj.com/articles/make-your-job-application-robot-proof-11576492201
- Smartphones Are Spies. Here’s Whom They Report To., https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-tracking-smartphone-marketing.html
- Gorgeous Vintage Posters of Animals and Scientific Phenomena by Japanese Graphic Designer, Illustrator, and Printmaker Kazumasa Nagai, https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/12/12/kazumasa-nagai/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+brainpickings/rss+(Brain+Pickings)
Reading List (Dec 15, 2019)
- Google’s quantum supremacy algorithm has found its first practical use, https://www.newscientist.com/article/2227490-googles-quantum-supremacy-algorithm-has-found-its-first-practical-use/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home
- Quantum computer sets new record for finding prime number factors, https://www.newscientist.com/article/2227387-quantum-computer-sets-new-record-for-finding-prime-number-factors/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home
- Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/technology/amazon-aws-cloud-competition.html
- The ergodicity problem in economics, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2019/12/06/the-ergodicity-problem-in-economics-wonkish/
Reading List (Dec 8, 2019)
- A Reality Check on Quantum Computers, https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-reality-check-on-quantum-computers-11575041271
- Equilibrium in Quantum Systems, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v12/123?utm_campaign=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailalert
- Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/books/times-critics-top-books-of-2019.html