Fun¶
- Interesting pieces in the chemical literature collected by Prof. Hintermann
- Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates
- Growth of Diamond Films from Tequila
- Learnability is unprovable. Similar to the logical paradoxes Gödel discovered and the continuum hypothesis there might be a universe in wish something is learnable from a finite sample whereas there also might be one where this is not possible
- Two layers are enough to memorise random labels (especially the influence of regularization is interesting). A wider context is in this nice blogpost: https://www.inference.vc/everything-that-works-works-because-its-bayesian-2/
import this- statistical thermodynamics as the maximally noncommital choice (link to information theory via maximum-entropy distributions and Shannon entropy)
- I do not like describing entropy as disorder as I think that it can be misleading: * Disorder - A Cracked Crutch for Supporting Entropy Discussions * Entropy producing complex, ordered structures (cp. Onsager rods or freezing hard spheres, also interesting is the influence of the entropy tax on self-assembly) * Order through entropy
- Living in Switzerland, this is essential knowledge
- Pickard’s hyperspatial geometry optimization seems quite interesting for me to expedite geometry searches and it reminded me of the Nosé-Hoover thermostat …
- Our AI skills might be worth less than we think
- I didn’t think about the enviornmental impact of streaming music before reading this article.
- Short reads: * Counterexample Euler’s conjecture * Writer’s block treatment
- Bad reads: * Found on Twitter: The theoretical calculations indicated that with increasing Si/Ge ratio or a decrease in the amount of Ge, the framework energy of the D4R units rapidly increase in a paper without a computational chemist amongst the reviewers