- The role of manipulation and intervention in theories of causality, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2021/05/08/the-role-of-manipulation-and-intervention-in-theories-of-causality/
- Cold Calling (finally) Dies, https://ritholtz.com/2021/05/cold-calling-finally-dies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheBigPicture+(The+Big+Picture)
- Citizen Science, the Cosmos, and the Meaning of Life, https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/05/27/comets-meteors-perseids-leonids/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+brainpickings/rss+(Brain+Pickings)
Reading List (May 9, 2021)
- Saturn Probe Data Reveal Impressive Depth of Titan’s Largest Sea, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/saturn-probe-data-reveal-impressive-depth-of-titans-largest-sea/
- Understanding population annealing Monte Carlo simulations, https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.053301
- Michael Lewis on White House Pandemic Planning (Podcast), https://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/masters_in_business
- NASA’s Perseverance Captures Video, Audio of Fourth Ingenuity Flight, https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-captures-video-audio-of-fourth-ingenuity-flight
- Tracing the Roots of the Big Apple: The Mysterious Origins of the World’s Most Famous City Moniker, https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/05/02/nyc-big-apple/
Reading List (May 3, 2021)
- What We’re Learning About Ingenuity’s Flight Control and Aerodynamic Performance, https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/298/what-were-learning-about-ingenuitys-flight-control-and-aerodynamic-performance/
Reading List (Apr 26, 2021)
- Learn at Home, https://www.raspberrypi.org/learn/
- NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight, https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8930/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-flies-faster-farther-on-third-flight/
- The Stoic Antidote to Frustration, https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/04/13/marcus-aurelius-meditations-robin-waterfield/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+brainpickings/rss+(Brain+Pickings)
Reading List (Apr 11, 2021)
- Quantum Showdown: Competing Methods of Solving Quantum Systems Put to the Test, https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2021/03/23/quantum-showdown-competing-methods-of-solving-quantum-systems-put-to-the-test/
- Econometrics — a critical-realist perspective, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/econometrics-a-critical-realist-perspective/
- Nature’s most magnetic objects, ripped apart in starquakes, can unleash powerful flashes of light, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/nature-s-most-magnetic-objects-ripped-apart-starquakes-can-unleash-powerful-flashes
- AWS Techchat: Getting Started With Containers, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-82-getting-started-with-containers/id1117776582?i=1000515965113
- Get inside the .git folder, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/get-inside-the-git-folder/id979020229?i=1000516381635
Reading List (Apr 5, 2021)
- When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-did-life-first-emerge-in-the-universe/
- Docker for Python developers, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/docker-for-python-developers-2021-edition/id979020229?i=1000513790714
- Simulation methods for open quantum many-body systems, https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.93.015008
- They Thought They Had the Energy, https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/they-thought-they-had-the-energy/
- On the poverty of deductivism, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2021/03/23/on-the-poverty-of-deductivism/
Reading List (Mar 20, 2021)
- New Study Challenges Long-Held Theory of Fate of Mars’ Water, https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8888/new-study-challenges-long-held-theory-of-fate-of-mars-water/
- Heterogeneity Matters When Modeling COVID-19, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/s22
- Observe: There’s a new nova visible in Cassiopeia right now, https://astronomy.com/news/observing/2021/03/observe-theres-a-new-nova-visible-in-cassiopeia
- Quantum Mechanics, the Chinese Room Experiment and the Limits of Understanding, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-mechanics-the-chinese-room-experiment-and-the-limits-of-understanding/
- Titan’s largest crater might be the perfect cradle for life, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/titan-s-largest-crater-might-be-perfect-cradle-life
Reading List (Mar 13, 2021)
- What’s under the hood of a quantum computer?, https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20210305a/full/
- Quantum firmware and the quantum computing stack, https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4698
- Robot Foragers, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/38
- The 75% Point: Light at the End of the Tunnel, https://ritholtz.com/2021/03/light-end-of-tunnel/
Reading List (Mar 7, 2021)
- Project Ant-Man, https://quantumfrontiers.com/2021/02/28/project-ant-man/
- 100-Million-Year-Old Seafloor Sediment Bacteria Have Been Resuscitated, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/100-million-year-old-seafloor-sediment-bacteria-have-been-resuscitated/
- Teaching a Neural Network the Hard Way, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/s25
- NASA’s Perseverance Drives on Mars’ Terrain for First Time, https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8882/nasas-perseverance-drives-on-mars-terrain-for-first-time/
Reading List (Feb 28, 2021)
- Is It a Planet? Astronomers Spy Promising Potential World around Alpha Centauri, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-it-a-planet-astronomers-spy-promising-potential-world-around-alpha-centauri/
- Hunting for a Giant Black Hole, Astronomers Found a Nest of Darkness, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/science/astronomy-black-hole-ngc6397.html
- The Pattern Inside the Pattern: Fractals, the Hidden Order Beneath Chaos, and the Story of the Refugee Who Revolutionized the Mathematics of Reality, https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/02/22/mandelbrot-fractals-chaos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+brainpickings/rss+(Brain+Pickings)
- The Gambler, Maxwell’s New Demon, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/31
- Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/fleets-radar-satellites-are-measuring-movements-earth-never