Re:Einstein was no lone genius
by yk on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @08:30PM
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In 1905 Einstein was not only working as a patent clerk, he was also finishing his PHD thesis. (He got it for his paper on Brownian motion.) The other two papers, special relativity, for which he is famous, and the photo electric effect, for which he got the Nobel, are actually using the same trick, just take the (already existing) equations seriously. Granted that is the closest to "one weird trick" you will ever see and it is perhaps even more important for modern physics than his tangible contributions, but it is simply not the case that he was working in a vacuum.
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> "one weird trick"
Reading this, I couldn't help but think "Maintain correct time in orbit by using this one weird trick discovered by a patent clerk. Click to find out how!"... :)
"Lone wolf patent clerk rewrites 10 most important physics equations. #7 will shock you!"
"This Lone Pattern Clerk Dozed Off At His Job, Dreaming About Light. You Won't Believe What Happened Next!"
For the machine learning folks: http://www.oneweirdkerneltrick.com/
> You Only Learn Once: A Stochastic Weight Aggregation approach to Online Regret Minimization
oh cool, this is relevant to my interests, I'm reading papers on monte carlo tree search for adversarial games
wait... what is this? I don't even