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Stephen Hsu
Physicist, Startup Founder, Blogger, Dad
Physicist, Startup Founder, Blogger, Dad
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20 years after the Sokal Hoax
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a nice article on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Sokal hoax. Has anything changed in the last 20 years? Wikipedia : The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax,[1] was a publishing hoax perpetrated by Alan...

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Varieties of Time Travel
My kids have been reading lots of books over the break, including an adventure series that involves time travel. Knowing vaguely that dad is a theoretical physicist, they asked me how time travel works . 1. Can one change history by influencing past events?...

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Xmas greetings from the coast


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Towards a Geometry of Thought
Apologies for the blogging hiatus -- I'm in California now for the holidays :-) In case you are looking for something interesting to read, I can share what I have been thinking about lately. In  Thought vectors and the dimensionality of the space of concept...

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Thought vectors and the dimensionality of the space of concepts
This NYTimes Magazine article describes the implementation of a new deep neural net version of Google Translate. The previous version used statistical methods that had reached a plateau in effectiveness, due to limitations of short-range correlations in con...

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Will and Power
This video might help you with your New Year's resolution: The claim that one has a fixed budget of will power or self-discipline (" ego depletion ") may be yet another non-replicating "result" of shoddy social science. Jocko on BJJ and mixed martial arts: ...

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Time and Memory
Over the holiday I started digging through my mom's old albums and boxes of photos. I found some pictures I didn't know existed! Richard Feynman and the 19 year old me at my Caltech graduation: With my mom that morning -- hung-over, but very happy! I think ...

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Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men 2016
For years, when asked what I wanted for Christmas, I've been replying: peace on earth, good will toward men :-) No one ever seems to recognize that this comes from the bible, Luke 2.14 to be precise! Linus said it best in A Charlie Brown Christmas: And ther...

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Uber ad for SF self-driving cars


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Happy Holidays from Michigan State University

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