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disagreeableme.blogspot.com
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| | | | | The anthropic principle has been much discussed and it is likely that you have already come across it. It's a strange and counter-intuit... | |
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selfawarepatterns.com
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| | | | | An interesting article byJonathan Borwein and David H. Bailey on why science needs philosophy. When renowned scientists now talk seriously about millions of multiverses, the old question "are we alone?" gets a whole new meaning. Our ever-expanding universe is incomprehensibly large - and its rate of growth is apparently accelerating - but if so it's... | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | I've been increasingly tempted to make this blog into a forum solely for responding to the posts at Overcoming Bias. (Possible new name: "Wallowing in Bias.") Two days ago, Robin Hanson pointed to a fascinating paper by Bousso, Harnik, Kribs, and Perez, on predicting the cosmological constant from an "entropic" version of the anthropic principle.... | |
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rjlipton.com
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| | | The Fulkerson prize is given to: outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics and is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of \$1,500 each are presented at each (triennial) International Symposium of the MOS. This year: * Ben Cousins and Santosh Vempala... | ||
