Gwern — Docs: Science↗
by Gwern Branwen
Archived scientific papers and essays.
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The Sword of Achilles
7 minAround 1200 B.C. (the story goes) the Greek forces were gathering in preparation for their assault on the city of Troy.
Metamagical Themas: Sanity and Survival
82 minIn the four chapters of this concluding section, themes of the previous section are carried further and brought into contact with common social dilemmas and, eventually, the current world situation.
The Ups and Downs of the Hope Function In a Fruitless Search
39 minIt is seldom, if ever, that human beings are not actively searching for something.
The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules
27 min[pg3] Evaluations of social programs have a long history, as history goes in the social sciences, but it has been only in the last two decades that evaluation has come close to becoming a routine...
Radiance: A Novel
520 minI call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering...
Climb Mount Improbable
1 minClimb Mount Improbable Richard Dawkins created a series of computer programs in the 1980s designed to show how evolution works. This interactive site is based on his original code.
You And Your Research
44 minIn order to make the information in the talk more widely available, the tape recording that was made of that talk was carefully transcribed [in 1986 ?] .