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Hey folks, as you might have seen from my previous post, things have been a little hectic lately, and I haven't had an opportunity to write some in-depth blog posts. While I wait for life to settle a bit again, I thought I'd share a bit of fascinating science news that you might have missed:...
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2.43 - 2.31 billion years ago There are some interesting parallels between chemistry on the one hand, and linguistics on the other. Remarkably,a recent article makes a strong casethat there is an actual historical connection between the science of linguistics and the science of chemistry. Specifically, Mendeleev's construction of the Periodic Table of Elements was...
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It can be tempting to imagine the world in terms of lego-like building-blocks. Atoms stick together protons, neutrons, and electrons, and protons and neutrons are made of stuck-together quarks in turn. And while atoms, despite the name, aren't indivisible, you might think that if you look small enough you'll find indivisible, unchanging pieces, the smallest...
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A series on automatic differentiation in Julia. Part 1 provides an overview and defines explicit chain rules.
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