Michael Nielsen
Person on 4 sites
Physicist, writer and researcher, co-author of the standard textbook on quantum computation and quantum information.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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26 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Poincare missed special relativity because he knew too much: the leading physicists of the day were prisoners of their own expertise. (opens korrents.com)
“his expertise seems to be getting in the way. He knows so much, he understands so much, um and then he's not able to let go of these these things.”
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What made the new astronomy compelling was neither accuracy nor simplicity but that one set of ideas explained three disconnected phenomena at once. (opens korrents.com)
“And so, you have what seem like three very different disconnected phenomena all being explained by this one set of ideas.”
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The idea that Newton was the first modern scientist is wrong: he was a transitional hybrid, part superstitious and part modern. (opens korrents.com)
“And like, this idea that people have that that that Newton was um sort of the the first modern scientist is is somehow wrong. He I mean, it's there's some truth to it, but he really had this very different way um of of…”
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Poincare missed special relativity because he knew too much: the leading physicists of the day were prisoners of their own expertise. (opens korrents.com)
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6 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (opens rcmnd.app)
“So how do people come to believe? Tanya M. Luhrmann has written a beautiful book exploring this question, "How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others".”
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How Buildings Learn (opens rcmnd.app)
“One of my favourite examples is this image of Stewart Brand inside the shipping container where he wrote his marvellous book "How Buildings Learn":”
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Dominion (opens rcmnd.app)
“A nice example: Tom Holland's book "Dominion" about the way the Gospels' valorization of kindness-toward-the-other transformed how people thought of success and the good life.”
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How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (opens rcmnd.app)