Experiencing 2020 from the POV of a rational-minded person is exhausting and scary.
It sometimes feels as though weve ended up inthe worst timelineof a badly-scripted parallel universes story.
Science is awesome and these are the receipts.
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Off with their heads!
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Still the paper is fun and the story behind it is cool too.
You never know how that could come in handy.
You havent read Buehrers work?
Dont feel bad, we stumbled across it one day in all its glory on sheer accident.
If it works like he describes it, we imagine this calculus would self-propagate.
So just a dab will do you.
Does God play dice?
You dont have to think very hard to imagine why.
In it, physicist Wojciech Hubert Zurek lays out the ideas behind a decoherence-based view of classical reality.
This seems to be in conflict with everyday reality: States we encounter are localized.
Classical objects can be either here or there, but never both here and there.
Its a fascinating paper that lends perfectly to the esoteric does God even exist?
Speaking of God…
Theres a greater than zero chance that you live inside a computer simulation.
By the time you finish this paper you should be questioning your reality.
Last but not least, The GANfather
Ian Goodfellow.
If youre into AI we just got your attention.
And if you dont know who that is, I envy you because youre in for a real treat.
Goodfellow,as MITs Martin Giles dubbed him, is the GANfather.
Hes responsible for creating the general adverserial web link or GAN.
GANs are a pop in of AI system that makes some of the most impressive deep learning feats possible.
All those cool this _____ does not exist sites that show of AI-generated images are powered by GANs.
If there were a Mount Rushmore for modern AI architects, Ian Goodfellow goes on that list.
The papers very readable and, as far as feet-firmly-on-the-ground AI papers go, its quite a good read.
If you want to understand AI, read GANs.
There are thousands of other great research papers out there so dont stop here.
Whats your favorite research paper?
Is there one you keep going back to for inspiration and comfort when youre unsure what direction to take?
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