Jessica Flack
Professor | Director, Collective Computation Group | Chair, SFI Public Events | Chief Editor, Collective Intelligence |
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The Sunday Read: ‘David’s Ankles’
Nytimes.com 97d 2 tweets
A writer’s obsession with the flaws, reproductions and potential collapse of Michelangelo’s masterpiece.
Currents 015: Jessica Flack & Melanie Mitchell on Complexity - The Jim Rutt Show
JimRuttShow - The Jim Rutt Show 92d 1 tweets
Jim talks to Melanie Mitchell & Jessica Flack about complxity of COVID, randomness, robustness, collective intelligence, misinfo, & more...
2020 Neukom Awards Honors Complex Stories in Complex Times – Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards
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Sue Bird, the Greatest Team Leader in Sports, Has a Blueprint to Win Anywhere
Sam Walker - WSJ 104d 1 tweets
The Seattle Storm captain has developed her own blueprint for winning with many different teams, and it doesn’t involve scoring the most points.
Pecos Baldy Lake
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Pecos Baldy Lake is a 14.7 mile moderately trafficked out and back trail located near Tererro, New Mexico that offers the chance to see wildlife and is only recommended for very experienced adventurers. The trail is primarily used for hiking,...
Jessica Flack A nearly perfect late afternoon autumn run traversing glowing mesas + aspen groves to Pecos Baldy Lake at 11,420'. 107d
This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic
The Atlantic 111d 157 tweets
It’s not R.
The Famous Baldwin-Buckley Debate Still Matters Today
The Atlantic 414d 6 tweets
In 1965, two American titans faced off on the subject of the country’s racial divides. Nearly 55 years later, the event has lost none of its relevance, as a recent book attests.
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Jessica Flack Dear Commission on Presidential Debates This is a real debate. Background We need more than a mute button. 110d
The legendary debate that laid down US political lines on race, justice and history | Aeon Videos
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In 1965 at the University of Cambridge, two of the foremost American intellectuals were challenged with the question: ‘Has the American Dream been achieved at the expense of the American Negro?’ From William F Buckley’s highly stylised posturing and...
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Jessica Flack Dear Commission on Presidential Debates This is a real debate. Background We need more than a mute button. 110d
Entropy
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Entropy, an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal.
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Jessica Flack Do you work on how molecular, cellular, neural or social systems compute from pov of biology, physics, computer science, or collective behavior? David Wolpert + I r editing a unique issue on foundations of biological computation 116d
Jessica Flack Foundations of Biological Computation Special Issue Update Submissions due JULY 1, 2021 We seek contributions frm theorists+empiricists working across scales frm origin of life to molecular computing to GRNs to neural+social circuits to AI 95d
The Biggest Wave Surfed This Year
Nytimes.com 119d 10 tweets
Maya Gabeira didn’t just ride the biggest wave ever ridden by a woman. It was the biggest wave surfed by anyone in the 2019-20 winter season, a first for women in professional surfing.
Jessica Flack (No) Limits: + determine 33-yr-old Maya Gabeira's Feb 11 Nazaré wave is the biggest officially rode during 2019-20 season by anyone, @ 73.5 feet, just beating out another woman, + Maui's . Watch the video 119d
Life is Made of Unfair Coin Flips
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It’s time we did a non-pandemic related newsletter issue. So this week we’ll do something more fun.  Today we’re going to talk about an interesting journal article that came out two weeks ago,…
Size and sleep: New research reveals why little things sleep longer
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Welcome to Santa Fe Institute.
My Unlikely Friendship With Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Nytimes.com 119d 7 tweets
I was a young, African-American Southerner, working in a Republican administration. But I loved Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and that was enough for her.
The Nature of Gary Snyder
The Paris Review 124d 2 tweets
On the thirtieth anniversary of the book’s original release, Robert Hass revisits Gary Snyder’s ‘The Practice of the Wild.’
New Squid Genome Shines Light on Symbiotic Evolution | Quanta Magazine
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Researchers hope that the genes of a glowing squid can illuminate how animals evolved organs for beneficial bacteria.
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Jessica Flack Social complexity: The bacterium Vibrio fischeri lives in the Hawaiian bobtail squid ink sac where it emits light to match the moon's illumination, cloaking the squid—a symbiotic relationship unique for specificity + evolutionary commitment 121d
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Great Equalizer
The New Yorker 122d 20 tweets
How a scholar, advocate, and judge upended the entirety of American political thought.
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Jessica Flack (No) Limits: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a titan of the 20th + 21st centuries—an intellectual firebrand who profoundly shaped American law, politics + culture. Jill Lepore, historian, on RBG 122d
sfiscience
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<p><strong><em>The Santa Fe Institute</em></strong>—a private, not-for-profit research and education facility—has an opening for a full-time postdoc in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. This position is funded by an NSF AI Institute...
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Jessica Flack What are the foundations of intelligence in natural + artificial systems? Does degree of collectivity matter? Our new AI institute funded project led by +Melanie Moses seeks a postdoc w expertise in cognitive science or AI 123d
Circuits with broken fibration symmetries perform core logic computations in biological networks
Journals.plos.org 208d 2 tweets
Author summary We show that the core functional logic of genetic circuits arises from a fundamental symmetry breaking of the interactions of the biological network. The idea can be put into a hierarchy of symmetric genetic circuits that reveals...
Jessica Flack Makse's paper explores how symmetry + broken symmetry principles can be used to identify fundamental units that perform core logic computations as well as provide a principled mapping bw GRN’s + solid state circuits 129d
Fibration symmetries uncover the building blocks of biological networks
PNAS 129d 1 tweets
The success of symmetries in explaining the physical world, from general relativity to the standard model of particle physics and all phases of matter, raises the question of why the same concept could not be equally applied to explain emergent...
Jessica Flack Makse's () paper provides good intro to fibration symmetries + conceptual merits of this approach. Added bonus ’s Murray Gell-Mann’s work using symmetry principles to identify quarks is cited via The Quark + Jaguar 129d
Thermodynamic costs of Turing machines
Physical Review Research 130d 1 tweets
The authors analyze the minimal thermodynamic costs involved in performing computations using Turing machines. The resulting costs demonstrate the connections between statistical physics and algorithmic information theory.
Jessica Flack is provided by Kolchinsky+Wolpert () in their study (in context of Turing machines) of how diff thermodynamic costs — (1) heat generated when a TM is run on each input, (2) min heat generated when TM is run w an input resulting in some 130d