Michael Nielsen

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Michael Aaron Nielsen (born January 4, 1974) is a quantum physicist, science writer, and computer programming researcher living in San Francisco.

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen · Feb 24, 2024

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One of my favourite letters, insightful & humane, from Richard Feynman to a former student who was having a rough time I was reflecting on it as an argument in favour of scope insensitivity, or even in favour of smaller problems:

Tweet Feb 24, 2024

A letter from Richard Feynman

by Michael Nielsen

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen · Aug 4, 2023

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Another striking thread about recent progress on LK-99:

Tweet Aug 4, 2023

There's much interest in whether the material known as #LK99 is a room-temperature superconductor. I'd like to address a much simpler question: Is there evidence that LK-99 has an unusually low room-temperature resistivity?

by Prof. Michael S Fuhrer

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen · Aug 3, 2023

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I found this thread enlightening:

Tweet Aug 2, 2023

I am seeing a lot of newcomers lately to the room-temperature superconductor rodeo. They might not be aware of the long history of these events, and I think there’s some cross-cultural communications difficulties going on because of that.

by Prof. Michael S Fuhrer

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen · Oct 20, 2022

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Thoughtful thread reflecting on metascience:

Tweet Oct 20, 2022

It's a long read (I've spread it out over 24 hours!) but "A Vision of Metascience" by @michael_nielsen and Kanjun Qiu is well worth the time scienceplusplus.org/metascience/index.html

by Laurence Tratt

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen · Oct 4, 2022

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Thoughtful thread:

Tweet Aug 28, 2022

Guys, we need to stop this nonsense. Yes, some people go overboard on hype, but the anti-hype backlash is equally as wrong. A thread born out of frustration on misconceptions about quantum industry👇(1/n) (it's gotten so bad I've been driven to emoj

by Joe Fitzsimons

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen · Sep 18, 2022

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We need to aim higher. This thread is wonderful:

Tweet Sep 16, 2022

It's Friday. Have some history. So you know Hadrian's Wall? Well for over 1000 years everyone thought it was built by someone else. Until, in 1840, John Hodgson, an unknown Northumbrian clergyman published the LONGEST footnote in history. Read on.

by John Bull

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen · Aug 25, 2022

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Nice thread from @petersuber, who you should follow if you have any interest in open science: [link] (via @mindspillage )

Tweet Aug 25, 2022

1/ This is big. @WHOSTP is calling on all federal research funding agencies to adopt #openaccess policies. If they already have OA policies, they must strengthen them to meet the new guidelines. I'll add some summary points in a thread below. twitter

by Peter Suber

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen · Aug 18, 2022

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He seems to have mostly delivered. (Great thread!)

Tweet Aug 18, 2022

The best words we have for working on whatever you want seem to be “funemployment” and “mini-retirement”which are terrible since they suggest you have to give up earning We need better words. Playcheck? if you can do it in a way that generates stea

by Venkatesh Rao

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen · Aug 6, 2022

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This is a terrific thoughtful thread on AI policy. I certainly don't agree with all of it, but it's very stimulating (and the author is, in any case, far better informed than I on nearly all the issues).

Tweet Aug 6, 2022

One like = one spicy take about AI policy.

by Jack Clark

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen · Aug 5, 2022

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Great thread:

Tweet Aug 4, 2022

It was such a pleasure co-organizing the NBER Innovation Research Boot Camp for PhD students with @Afinetheorem and @bfjo. We had an amazing group of economists make time to teach & talk with this group. Here’s a thread on what we covered in 11 ses

by Heidi L. Williams

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen · Jul 29, 2022

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Interesting thread soliciting ideas for @ARIA_research. For ARIA to achieve outsize results it will have to do things other funders don't; they look to be soliciting ideas to that end.

Tweet Jul 29, 2022

Scientists/technologists/researchers: Where and how can ARIA have the biggest impact? Tell us and help shape our vision by signing up at aria.org.uk to host a roundtable attended by our CEO @ilangur.