- Earthlike planets should readily form around other stars, meteorites suggest, https://www.science.org/content/article/earthlike-planets-should-readily-form-around-other-stars-meteorites-suggest
- The misuse of mathematics in economics, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2022/12/08/the-misuse-of-mathematics-in-economics/
- Stop Worrying About All Those Tech Layoffs…, https://ritholtz.com/2023/01/stop-worrying-about-all-those-tech-layoffs/
- Mars Helicopters – The 4R’s, https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/417/mars-helicopters-the-4rs/
- Expanding Universe in the Lab, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/176
Category Archives: reading_list
Reading List (Dec 31, 2022)
- The World-Changing Race to Develop the Quantum Computer, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/19/the-world-changing-race-to-develop-the-quantum-computer
- Monte Carlo simulations — no substitute for thinking, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2022/12/15/monte-carlo-simulations-no-substitute-for-thinking/
- Meet the Unimon, the New Qubit on the Block, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/191
- How can you tell if the company you’re interviewing with is rotten on the inside?, https://charity.wtf/2022/01/29/how-can-you-tell-if-the-company-youre-interviewing-with-is-rotten-on-the-inside/
- How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd, https://theconversation.com/how-stoicism-influenced-music-from-the-french-renaissance-to-pink-floyd-181701
Reading List (Oct 29, 2022)
- The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-is-not-locally-real-and-the-physics-nobel-prize-winners-proved-it/
- ‘Bit of Panic’: Astronomers Forced to Rethink Early JWST Findings, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bit-of-panic-astronomers-forced-to-rethink-early-jwst-findings/
- Schrödinger Win for Extreme Waves, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/s128
- Breakthrough Prize for the Physics of Quantum Information…and of Cells, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/148
- The Strange Case of Nakamoto’s Bitcoin – Part 1, https://salbayat.org/the-strange-case-of-nakamotos-bitcoin/
- How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd, https://theconversation.com/how-stoicism-influenced-music-from-the-french-renaissance-to-pink-floyd-181701
Reading List (Sep 24, 2022)
- Sparkly Image of Neptune’s Rings Comes into View from JWST, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sparkly-image-of-neptunes-rings-comes-into-view-from-jwst1/
- Experiment Sees Elusive Magnetic-Fluid Instability, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/134
- Decomposing the Local Arrow of Time in the Brain, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/133
- The Strange Case of Nakamoto’s Bitcoin, https://salbayat.org/the-strange-case-of-nakamotos-bitcoin/
- How Amazon Become Ordinary, https://ritholtz.com/2022/08/amazon-ordinary/
- Avoiding statistical ‘dichotomania’, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2022/09/19/avoiding-statistical-dichotomania/
Reading List (Jul 24, 2022)
- Keeping Our Sense of Direction: Dealing With a Dead Sensor, https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/385/keeping-our-sense-of-direction-dealing-with-a-dead-sensor/
- Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else, https://www.science.org/content/article/ten-years-after-higgs-physicists-face-nightmare-finding-nothing-else
- The Uncertainty Monster, https://ritholtz.com/2022/07/the-uncertainty-monster/
- Bayesian absurdities, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2022/06/20/bayesian-absurdities/
Reading List (May 31, 2022)
- Quantum Encryption in a Box, https://quantumfrontiers.com/2022/05/18/quantum-encryption-in-a-box/
- Nobody Knows Anything, Kentucky Derby Edition, https://ritholtz.com/2022/05/nobody-knows-anything-kentucky-derby-edition/
- How the Brain ‘Constructs’ the Outside World, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-brain-constructs-the-outside-world/
Reading List (May 7, 2022)
- A far-out gas giant takes shape in an unusual way, https://astronomy.com/news/2022/05/snapshot-a-far-out-gas-giant-takes-shape-in-an-unusual-way
- Worried that quantum computers will supercharge hacking, White House calls for encryption shift, https://www.science.org/content/article/worried-quantum-computers-will-supercharge-hacking-white-house-calls-encryption-shift
- Computers Have Memories Too, https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/04/27/computers-have-memories-too/
- Dropping Economics 101, https://ritholtz.com/2022/04/econ-101/
Reading List (Apr 30, 2022)
- 50 Cognitive Biases, https://ritholtz.com/2022/04/50-cognitive-biases/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
- Three phases of quantum annealing: Fast, slow, and very slow, https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.105.042423?utm_source=pocket_mylist
- Amazon Fargate, https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/
- Adversarial Collaboration, https://www.edge.org/adversarial-collaboration-daniel-kahneman
Reading List (Apr 17, 2022)
- Getting Started with Agility: Essential Reading, https://holub.com/reading/
- The B-Side, https://ritholtz.com/2022/04/the-b-side/
- Hubble Confirms Megacomet Bound for Inner Solar System Is Largest Ever Seen, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hubble-confirms-megacomet-bound-for-inner-solar-system-is-largest-ever-seen/
- Terraform, https://learn.hashicorp.com/terraform?utm_source=terraform_io
- Dask, https://dask.org/
Reading List (Apr 3, 2022)
- The Moon as a Gravitational-Wave Detector, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/34?utm_source=pocket_mylist
- Selection Bias, Magazine Cover edition, https://ritholtz.com/2022/03/selectionbias-magcover/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
- A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws, https://www.quantamagazine.org/crisis-in-particle-physics-forces-a-rethink-of-what-is-natural-20220301/?utm_source=pocket_mylist