Categories

metascience

progress

AI

• Book review of “The Alignment Problem” by Brian Christian
• What would a science of AI look like?
• Summary from the 2020 AGI Strategy Meeting's session on Community Capacity
• Condensed notes from “Ethics of AI” at NYU, October 14-15th, 2016
• My AI article for middle schoolers: “Robots and Mechanical Men”

AI safety

• Book review of “The Alignment Problem” by Brian Christian

Bayesian inference

• Maximum entropy priors
• More counterintuitive Bayesian reasoning problems

COVID19

• To Maryland Governor Larry Hogan - Liberate Vaccine Doses from the FDA!
• How we can judge the safety and efficacy of new vaccines prior to Phase III data and why we must

Machine learning

• Book review of “The Alignment Problem” by Brian Christian

Mathematics

• A physicist’s visualization of Bayes’ theorem
• Polyhedra

Musings

• Moore's law – Kurzweil vs. Thiel
• Crackpot Nobelists
• A Critique of the Institution of Football

NIH

• Petition to President Joe Biden – Appoint Dr. Martine Rothblatt to Lead the NIH!

Neuroscience

• Neuromorphic hardware – a path towards human-level artificial intelligence
• The human brain is amazing
• Building a Kernel for 3D Shape Recognition Using Neural Networks

Python

• Open source software on my GitHub
• Resources for learning data science and machine learning
• DIY Drug Discovery - using molecular fingerprints and machine learning for solubility prediction

Science communication

• My AI article for middle schoolers: “Robots and Mechanical Men”
• The chance that a child will have a severe reaction to the MMR vaccine is less than the chance they will die in a 200 mile car ride
• A misconception about microwaves

Tesla

• Tesla’s folly – why Wardenclyffe didn’t work
• Is Tesla’s particle beam weapon practical?
• Some corrections to Matthew Inman’s Tesla puff piece

artificial intelligence

• What would a science of AI look like?
• Draft AI Policy Points

astronomy

• starlog
• Naked eye observing techniques
• The History of Astronomy at RPI
• Astro pics I took at RPI’s Hirsch Observatory

books

• Book review of “Hacking Darwin” by Jamie Metzl
• “Accelerando” by Charles Stross
• Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception
• “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchel
• “Halting State” by Charles Stross
• “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein
• “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel
• Book list

coding

• Basic workflow for creating and using a remote git repository for backup and collaboration

computers

• Moore's law – Kurzweil vs. Thiel

data science

• Motivations for studying how to interpret molecular machine learning models
• Resources for learning data science and machine learning

deep learning

• Geoffrey Hinton on what's wrong with CNNs

drug discovery

• DIY Drug Discovery - using molecular fingerprints and machine learning for solubility prediction

economics

• Moore's law – Kurzweil vs. Thiel
• Capitalism - an outline
• “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel

education

• What leads to achievement?

environmentalism

• Proactive vs. Retroactive Environmentalism

genetics

• Book review of “Hacking Darwin” by Jamie Metzl

git

• Basic workflow for creating and using a remote git repository for backup and collaboration

machine learning

• Motivations for studying how to interpret molecular machine learning models
• Resources for learning data science and machine learning
• Geoffrey Hinton on what's wrong with CNNs
• DIY Drug Discovery - using molecular fingerprints and machine learning for solubility prediction
• Testing out decision trees, AdaBoosted trees, and random forest
• Maximum entropy priors
• More counterintuitive Bayesian reasoning problems

music

• Some Electronic Albums I've Listened to in Times Past
• Top 10 Impressionist Piano Albums of All Time
• My Philosophy of Music
• Trance, Music, and Trance Music
• A review of Spicelab's A Day on Our Planet
• 10 of the greatest electronic albums
• Pet Peeves

musings

• What leads to achievement?

neuroscience

• Geoffrey Hinton on what's wrong with CNNs

non-technical

• An introduction to the water structure problem
• Our Nature Communications paper – ice-like phonons in liquid water
• Crackpot Nobelists
• Neuromorphic hardware – a path towards human-level artificial intelligence
• The chance that a child will have a severe reaction to the MMR vaccine is less than the chance they will die in a 200 mile car ride
• “Halting State” by Charles Stross
• “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein
• “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel
• Some corrections to Matthew Inman’s Tesla puff piece
• Polyhedra
• A misconception about microwaves
• Does hot water freeze faster than cold? Explaining the Mpemba effect
• More is different

nontechnical

• Why do we see the frequencies we do?

nootropics

• Using nicotine as a cognitive enhancer
• What the heck is in this stuff ??
• Energy drink ingredients – do they work? A science-based review

op-eds

• A Libertarian Stance on Smoking Bans

philosophy

• Condensed notes from “Ethics of AI” at NYU, October 14-15th, 2016
• The AI control problem is more pressing than the consciousness question

physics

• Open source software on my GitHub
• Explaining the uncertainty principle correctly
• Why do we see the frequencies we do?
• Entropy : part I
• Percolation Theory – the deep subject with the not-so-deep sounding name
• Wasserfadden!

poetry

• Poetry

programming

• Some subtler problems with Wikipedia articles
• Recursion is slow
• Why physicists still use Fortran

progress studies

pseudoscience

• Exclusion zone water
• Crackpot Nobelists
• What’s your evidence threshold?
• The chance that a child will have a severe reaction to the MMR vaccine is less than the chance they will die in a 200 mile car ride
• Energy drink ingredients – do they work? A science-based review

psychology

• Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception

python

• Testing out decision trees, AdaBoosted trees, and random forest
• Recursion is slow
• Maximum entropy priors

quantum theory

• Explaining the uncertainty principle correctly

quotes

• Quotes

rationality

• To Maryland Governor Larry Hogan - Liberate Vaccine Doses from the FDA!
• How we can judge the safety and efficacy of new vaccines prior to Phase III data and why we must

research

• Debye relaxation in water, aka “how microwaves work” explained at last
• An introduction to the water structure problem
• Our Nature Communications paper – ice-like phonons in liquid water
• Exclusion zone water
• Why physicists still use Fortran
• Wasserfadden!
• Periodic Boundary Conditions
• Polyhedra
• A misconception about microwaves
• Quantum effects in water
• More is different
• Building a Kernel for 3D Shape Recognition Using Neural Networks

science communication

• Why do we see the frequencies we do?
• Digital artwork
• On writing well enough

science communications

• Wasserfadden!

scifi

• “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchel
• “Halting State” by Charles Stross
• “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein

singularity

• “Accelerando” by Charles Stross
• Moore's law – Kurzweil vs. Thiel

skepticism

• What’s your evidence threshold?

society

• A Critique of the Institution of Football

software

• Open source software on my GitHub

statistics

• More counterintuitive Bayesian reasoning problems

technical

• Exclusion zone water
• A physicist’s visualization of Bayes’ theorem
• Periodic Boundary Conditions
• Quantum effects in water

technology

• “Accelerando” by Charles Stross
• Moore's law – Kurzweil vs. Thiel

transhumanism

• Book review of “Hacking Darwin” by Jamie Metzl
• My IamTranshuman manifesto
• Some thoughts on Zoltan Istvan's presidential campaign

vaccines

• To Maryland Governor Larry Hogan - Liberate Vaccine Doses from the FDA!
• How we can judge the safety and efficacy of new vaccines prior to Phase III data and why we must