Machine learning research engineer. MSE, Hopkins, with a focus on spectral embedding methods on graphs. Currently working in a research group on the west coast.
Alex Loftus
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I realized that the invention and destruction of vitalism—which I had only read about in books—had actually happened to real people, who experienced it much the same way I experienced the invention and destruction of my own mysterious answer
This realization makes the Stephen Pinker-esque stories about the extent of violence in the middle ages and earlier that much more surreal.
Alex Loftus’s Shortform
This chapter made me feel things.
Right, but history books are a much lossier source of information.