Michael Aaron Nielsen (born January 4, 1974) is a quantum physicist, science writer, and computer programming researcher living in San Francisco.
TSMC's new 5 nm fab in Arizona will be 1,100 acres. This article is frankly just incredible:
Thoughtful thread reflecting on metascience:
Interesting articles both!
I really enjoyed reading the transformer code here: [link] The key code is about ~70 lines, of which most is very straightforward / boilerplate. The core of it is maybe 20 lines - that's what does GPT-2!
A thread born out of frustration on misconceptions about quantum industryđ(1/n)
(it's gotten so bad I've been driven to emojis!)
thenextweb.com/news/oxford-scientist-says-greedy-physicists-overhyped-quantum-computing
Thoughtful thread:
Very good interview between @patrickc & @ezraklein: [link] The broad theme is a question: how can we make the world better? Not from a strongly ideological view, presuming one knows the answer, mod details, but from a pov of trying to deepen our understanding
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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... /1
We need to aim higher. This thread is wonderful:
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Nice thread from @petersuber, who you should follow if you have any interest in open science: [link] (via @mindspillage )
While I'm mentioning talks, I also enjoyed (eg) this talk about ambitious projects, by Jonathan Blow: Recording quality is, alas, poor, but the talk is extremely thoughtful.
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This is a wonderful paper on megastructures, by @anderssandberg: (I was an enthusiastic referee for the paper đ)