computer science
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Wavelike cats calculate faster than you can.
Hypothetical calculator-wielding cats can help us understand the workings of a quantum computer.
calculating cats, cat, chemistry, computation, computer science, computers, factoring prime numbers, flow of information, information-proof box, laser trap, many worlds, physics, quantum, quantum bits, quantum computers, quantum computing, quantum computing made easy, quantum decoherence, quantum mechanics, quantum mechanics for children, quantum physics, Sam Avery Norrell, Schrodinger’s Cat, science, understanding quantum computers, understanding quantum computing, wave function, wave function collapse
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On perception and learning.
We adults can’t fix the world until we learn from children that it’s okay to be wrong.
analytical philosophy, animal cognition, automated image analysis, Brendan Wenzel, Bring me a slab, childhood development, children’s books, chimpanzee learning, computer learning to find cats, computer science, data clustering, David Lancy, falsifiable theories, Google, human development, identification, language acquisition, learning, Liu Cixin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, mental filters, neural networks, New York Times, parenting, perception, personhood, Philosophical Investigations, principal component analysis, Quoc Le, science, scientific method, Slab!, Stanford, teaching, The Anthropology of Childhood, The Three-Body Problem, They All Saw a Cat, unsupervised learning, Upshot, what is a cat, what is red, Youtube cat videos
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