Skip to main contentdfsdf

Gerhard Stoltz

Ford Maya's Community | Ford Maya

Shared by Gerhard Stoltz, Gerhard Stoltz added annotation, 1 save total

  • <!-- /ko -->  <!-- ko if: !locked --><!-- /ko --> 
       <!-- ko if: isOwner() && filter() && filter().hasRecipients() --><!-- /ko --> 
     
     
     
       <!-- ko if: canDelete() || !isOwner() --> 
            
     
      <!-- ko if: isOwner() --><!-- /ko -->  <!-- ko if: !isOwner() -->      Report this message    <!-- /ko --> 
     
     
      <!-- /ko --> 
      
      <!-- ko if: storyType == "la" --><!-- /ko -->   <!-- ko if: storyType == "sm" && subItem --><!-- /ko -->   <!-- ko if: storyType == "sp" --><!-- /ko -->   <!-- ko if: storyType == "nr" -->  <!-- ko if: subOnly --><!-- /ko -->   <!-- ko if: subItem && !subOnly --><!-- /ko -->   <!-- ko if: !subItem && !subOnly -->  New release from FORD MAYA  <!-- /ko -->  <!-- /ko -->   
     
      
     
     
Gerhard Stoltz

The New Math of How Large-Scale Order Emerges | Quanta Magazine

Shared by Gerhard Stoltz, Gerhard Stoltz added annotation, 6 saves total

  • Our brains will never twice have exactly the same firing pattern of neurons, but there are plenty of circumstances where nevertheless we’ll end up doing the same thing.
  • But it’s not always this way. While many of our genes carry mutations that make no difference to our health, sometimes a mutation — just one genetic “letter” in a DNA sequence that is “wrong” — can be catastrophic. So the independence of the macro from the micro is not complete
Gerhard Stoltz

REVIEW: Einstein's Unification, by Jeroen van Dongen

Shared by Gerhard Stoltz, Gerhard Stoltz added annotation, 1 save total

  • science pedagogy has a tendency to emphasize the completed, polished form of theories. Students are rarely exposed to the messy and sometimes irrational process of their creation, and they are certainly not encouraged to wonder what alternative formalizations could have explained the evidence equally well.
  • The danger is when scientists keep their metaphysics to themselves, or, worse, pretend that they have no metaphysics at all and are solely guided by the evidence, because it’s then that they run the risk of being driven by passing scientific fashions and political fads rather than by reasoned and universal principles.
Show more items

Highlighter, Sticky notes, Tagging, Groups and Network: integrated suite dramatically boosting research productivity. Learn more »

Join Diigo