In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems

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There’s a growing lack of trust in science, with people denying Covid, or the need for vaccinations, or climate change.

I was busy running the Accademia dei Lincei, I had my work at the university, and the day after I had to do 20 interviews over Zoom and so on. Now that climate change is starting to affect people’s lives, there is perhaps a stronger reaction, but we need much more forceful measures to be taken. The first 18 pages was about his experience trying to define and capture how a collective gathering of starlings can move with incredible unison. One direct descendant is artificial intelligence, in the sense that work on spin glasses has been very important for a lot of developments in studying neural networks in the 1980s and 90s, and neural networks are the basis of modern artificial intelligence.If he had, he’d know the line between science and everything else we value as a society is connective, not separating. When you have multiple minima and the ball keeps on rolling and the dynamics change as a function of time. You caused quite a stir in Italy recently when you claimed to have found a more energy efficient way to make pasta, by turning the heat off and putting the lid on two minutes after adding the pasta to boiling water.

In so doing, he removes the practice of science from the confines of the laboratory and into the real world.For this work, together with Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe, he won the Nobel prize in physics in 2021. In her novel The Waves , Virginia Woolf wrote about something similar occurring among a group of young friends: “The complexity of things become more close…What am I?

Along the way, Parisi reflects on the lessons he's taken from a life in pursuit of scientific truth: the importance of serendipity to the discovery of new ideas, the surprising kinship between physics and other fields of study and the value of science to a thriving society.I saw a post on Facebook and I just shared it, thinking it was an interesting idea, but I never actually tried it. In a humorous way, it was, like an integer raised to the power-of-a-half results in the square root.