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.
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.
This chapter made me feel things.
Right, but history books are a much lossier source of information.