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BEYOND OUR GRASP. “A number of years ago we stumbled on the present minimal viscosity explanation for the linear resistivity, playing with the black holes. The qualitative nature of the physics at work is however stunningly different from anything in the condensed matter textbooks. At first encounter, the claims may sound outrageous. The electron fluid in the strange metal is claimed to be governed by hydrodynamics, it flows like water.” https://lnkd.in/dqysHFG View in LinkedIn

EXTRAORDINARY PHYSICS. “The interior of a neutron star, endowed with the highest magnetic fields known and with densities spanning about ten orders of magnitude from the surface to the centre, is predicted to exhibit various phases of dense strongly interacting matter, whose physics is reviewed in this chapter.” https://lnkd.in/dm-4wAJ View in LinkedIn

COSMIC LABS. “Formed in the aftermath of gravitational core-collapse supernova explosions, neutron stars are unique cosmic laboratories for probing the properties of matter under extreme conditions that cannot be reproduced in terrestrial laboratories.” https://lnkd.in/dm-4wAJ View in LinkedIn

The first violets of the year emerge coincident with almond blossom and the first mosquito, in a sudden rush with an upsurge in warm weather. Life will find a way! View in LinkedIn

SOCIAL BEINGS. “The memory of the multitude is thus made up from human-archival entanglements of communication through digital devices and networks. For better or for worse, such entanglements are today irresistibly part of what it means to be social.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

“DEEP MACHINE LEARNING is based not on symbols, rules, or procedures such as “if this, then that” but on exposure of many examples to layered networks of artificial neurons that have thousands of connections with one another. It has been shown that such systems can, without supervision, form generalizations of patterns that recur in the examples.” https://lnkd.in/dzHM-4X View in LinkedIn

THE UNIMAGINABLE DEEP NOW. “The archived self alters the constitution of the social, anchoring the present into a ‘deep now’: a now with unpredictable and often invisible and unimaginable trails and connectivities.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

THE MEMORY ARCHIVE. “The new economy of attention or distraction -- the multiple and often simultaneous modes of being hyperconnected: the new modus operandi of everyday communication -- the link, like, message, tweet, email, text-- are archived into a chain of media-memory.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

THE NEW AND THE OLD. “Whereas traditional forms of memory developed from ideas of the crowd, the social and the collective, as non-archival entities, and traditional audience relations with media similarly so, in contrast, the multitude is inherently archival -- entangled and distributed through uncertain times and spaces, forms of times and decay and emergences.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

THE SINGULARITY OF MAN AND MACHINE. “The broader revolutionary change here is the ‘connective turn’: a heady cocktail of immediacy, volume and pervasiveness of the digital, which shape a new knowledge base -- ‘the information infrastructure’ -- that brings people and machines into new relations with one another.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn