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| | | | | This will be a series of self-contained lectures on the philosophy of mathematics, given at Oxford University in Michaelmas term 2019. We will be meeting in the Radcliffe Humanities Lecture Room at | |
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| | | | | Today I continue withmy series of postson fields, strings and predictions. During the 1980s, as I discussed in the previous post in this series, string theorists learned that of all the possible string theories that one could imagine, there were only five that were mathematically consistent. What they learned in the first half of the... | |
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| | | | | Judea Pearl is one of the most important scholars in the field of causal reasoning. His book Causality is the leading textbook in the field. This blog has two short parts -- a paper he wrote a few months ago and an interview he gave a few days ago. * He recently wrote a very... | |
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| | | Is this a record for a quantum computer ? A group of physicists in China have used a process called adiabatic computing to find the prime factors of the number 143, beating the previous record for a quantum computer of 21. However, there are doubts about the quantum nature of this method, and its potential ... | ||