A quantum walk down Wall Street | The Economist

January 8, 2022

QT:{{”
But on a closer look finance bears a striking resemblance to the quantum world. A beam of
light might seem continuous, but is in fact a stream of discrete packets of energy called photons. Cash flows come in similarly distinct chunks. Like the position of a particle, the true price of an asset is unknowable without making a measurement—a transaction—that in turn changes it. In both fields uncertainty, or risk, is best understood not as a peripheral source of error, but as the fundamental feature of the system.
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Like this quote: light might seem continuous, but is in fact a stream of discrete…photons. Cash flows come in similarly distinct chunks. Like the position of a particle, the true price of an asset is unknowable without making a measurement—a transaction—that in turn changes it

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/11/06/a-quantum-walk-down-wall-street


Trinity: “The most significant hazard of the entire Manhattan Project” – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

January 8, 2022

https://thebulletin.org/2019/07/trinity-the-most-significant-hazard-of-the-entire-manhattan-project/


science

January 8, 2022

Published: 05 January 2022
Decoding gene regulation in the fly brain
Jasper Janssens, Sara Aibar, Ibrahim Ihsan Taskiran, Joy N. Ismail, Alicia Estacio Gomez, Gabriel Aughey, Katina I. Spanier, Florian V. De Rop, Carmen Bravo González-Blas, Marc Dionne, Krista Grimes, Xiao Jiang Quan, Dafni Papasokrati, Gert Hulselmans, Samira Makhzami, Maxime De Waegeneer, Valerie Christiaens, Tony Southall & Stein Aerts Nature (2022)

Nature paper today on Fly brain GRNs, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04262-z

Some integrative analyses might be useful…


Selection of good quotes from The Man from the Future

January 8, 2022

At the link below are a selection of good quotes from
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann Hardcover by Ananyo Bhattacharya (Author)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FIM00rGx28S0Z6cQiNhwAm8otpdphRttdabA03hPWgY/edit

(public doc: Selected-Good-Quotes-from-Man-from-the-Future–jvn0mg)

Further quotes I liked are at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1noMiAy2maVVyPh94rEzEZbCwR6TPjZ2T223Hm5ylDZ0/edit

(a private doc: Full-List-of-Good-quotes-from-Man-from-the-Future–jvn0mg)


Gray goo – Wikipedia

January 8, 2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo


Daniel Ellsberg – Wikipedia

January 7, 2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg

QT:{{”
While employed by the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government
decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War,
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Self-replicating spacecraft – Wikipedia

January 7, 2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft

von neumann probes


Automatic Mechanical Self Replication (Part 1), Lionel Penrose, 1958 – YouTube

January 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12HfFvjSAHc

Penrose Wood replicator


JCVI-syn3.0 – A synthetic genome stripped bare!

January 7, 2022

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4879981/


JP 3-72, Nuclear Operations, 11 June 2019

January 7, 2022

https://irp.fas.org/doddir/dod/jp3_72.pdf