{"id":1094,"date":"2012-04-29T12:59:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T16:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?page_id=1094"},"modified":"2012-05-07T17:43:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T21:43:57","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The loose theme underlying my writing is the use of science and technology to improve the way we think. The essays I’m proudest of are The future of science<\/a>, Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?<\/a>, and Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software<\/a>. I’ve collected links to my writing below, organized into four categories: technology<\/a>; open science<\/a>; physics and mathematics<\/a>; and thoughts on how to work<\/a>. I’ve also written two books, Reinventing Discovery<\/a>, a manifesto for the idea that publicly funded science should be open science, and a textbook (with Ike Chuang) on Quantum Computation and Quantum Information<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Technology<\/h2>\n

Big ideas<\/h3>\n

Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software<\/a>
\nIf correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?<\/a>
\nThe Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle<\/a><\/p>\n

PageRank<\/a><\/h3>\n

Introduction to PageRank<\/a> (also as a video<\/a>)
\nBuilding our PageRank intuition<\/a> (also as a video<\/a>)
\nThe PageRank distribution for the web<\/a>
\nUsing your laptop to compute PageRank for millions of webpages<\/a>
\nHow changing the structure of the web changes PageRank<\/a><\/p>\n

Search<\/a><\/h3>\n

Documents as geometric objects: how to rank documents for full-text search<\/a> (addendum<\/a>)
\nHow to combine multiple notions of relevance in search<\/a> (addendum<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Distributed computing<\/a><\/h3>\n

Write your first MapReduce program in 20 minutes<\/a>
\nUsing MapReduce to compute PageRank<\/a>
\nConsistent Hashing<\/a>
\nA Number-Theoretic Approach to Consistent Hashing<\/a>
\nPregel<\/a><\/p>\n

Data mining and machine learning<\/a><\/h3>\n

Introduction to statistical machine translation<\/a>
\nImplementing statistical machine translation using MapReduce<\/a><\/p>\n

Open science<\/a><\/h2>\n

The Future of Science<\/a>
\nIs Scientific Publishing About to be Disrupted?<\/a>
\nMassively collaborative mathematics<\/a>
\nThe new Einsteins will be scientists who share<\/a>
\nScience Beyond Individual Understanding<\/a>
\nShirky’s Law and why (most) social software fails<\/a>
\nKasparov versus the World<\/a>
\nOpen access: a short summary<\/a>
\nIntellectual property, automated contracts, and the free flow of information<\/a><\/p>\n

Physics and mathematics<\/h3>\n

Ordered in rough order of difficulty, from non-technical to technical. My research papers may be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quantum computing for everyone<\/a>
\nWhy the world needs quantum mechanics<\/a>
\nSimple rules for a complex quantum world<\/a>
\nQuantum computing for the determined<\/a>
\nWhat’s wrong with those quantum cryptosystems?<\/a>
\nIf correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?<\/a>
\nSmall world networks<\/a>
\nArrow’s theorem<\/a>
\nQuantum gravity<\/a>
\nExpander graphs<\/a>
\nLinear matrix equations<\/a>
\nOperator monotone and operator convex functions<\/a>
\nFermions and the Jordan-Wigner transform<\/a>
\nIntroduction to Yang-Mills theories<\/a><\/p>\n

Thoughts on how to work<\/a><\/h2>\n

Six rules for rewriting<\/a>
\nExtreme thinking<\/a>
\nPrinciples of effective research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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