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=== 2009 === {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3256969116 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Why am I brought up on the names Einstein, Dirac, Heisenberg, [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]], Weinberg, etc ....and not flippin' Yang??? Yang=Da Man. |timestamp=1:59 AM 路 Aug 12, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3486388504 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Recommendation: If you must compare "[[Kung Fu Panda]]" to "Godfather I" or "War and Peace" do it on a Saturday in late August. #mytwocents |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3473300684 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=New topic: the importance of "Kung Fu Panda". |timestamp=3:34 PM 路 Aug 22, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3473366852 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=To begin with, like a Beethoven symphony, [[Kung Fu Panda]] is meant to be accessed on multiple levels with "Believe in yourself" as the lowest. |timestamp=3:38 PM 路 Aug 22, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3473609846 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=The voice performances (w/ exception of Jolie) are all strong. Dustin Hoffman is fantastic. Jack Black solid, McShane and Duk Kim brilliant. |timestamp=3:53 PM 路 Aug 22, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3473878202 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=But what makes Kung Fu Panda the film of the decade (ergo century, ergo millenium) is that it alone tackles a central issue of science. |timestamp=4:10 PM 路 Aug 22, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3474148493 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Driving Kung Fu Panda is the tension between dual modes of learning: Knowledge Transfer and Discovery. As innovator, Oogway is heirless. |timestamp=4:26 PM 路 Aug 22, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3474196824 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=But Oogway who has a star mentee is not content with the fate of [[Paul Dirac|Dirac]], [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]], etc... in not leaving an innovator-successor. |timestamp=4:29 PM 路 Aug 22, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3474224837 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=[I know taking Kung Fu Panda seriously will lose followers....but I don't care about those eyeballs as the issue and film are too important] |timestamp=4:31 PM 路 Aug 22, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3474306064 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=So while Oogway is master to Shifu who is/was master to both Tai Lung and Tigress he chooses to elevate the ostensibly inexplicable Panda. |timestamp=4:36 PM 路 Aug 22, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3474348662 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=In fact, Panda has demonstrated two features in strapping himself to a firework propelled chair: a willingness to innovate and break rules. |timestamp=4:38 PM 路 Aug 22, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3474382580 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=The film then shows the presumed successor (Tigress) as willing to break rules but previously shows this liniage to be prestige focused. |timestamp=4:40 PM 路 Aug 22, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3478589295 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Think of the Panda as having a major & minor advisor. The major advisor (Oogway) he meets only twice. To the minor advisor falls training. |timestamp=8:44 PM 路 Aug 22, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3478839119 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=So university based PhD advising is based on the failed Shifu-Tigress model. But great science seeks the added Oogway-Panda dimension. |timestamp=9:00 PM 路 Aug 22, 2009 }} |timestamp=4:45 AM 路 Aug 23, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3704496800 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Imagine before [[Jim Watson|Watson]]-[[Francis Crick|Crick]] I asked you: "Go nuts. What could possibly make [[Erwin Chargaff|Chargaff's]] Equimolar rules gorgeous, motivated and canonical?" |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3703002903 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Ever heard an organized religion complain that G-d would never slap some butt ugly quartic potential on the world to give it mass? |timestamp=2:33 AM 路 Sep 2, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3704214643 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=To Dave Bacon: "Butt ugly" referred to the present motivation for the Higgs terms as intellectual spackle. Soft mass won't likely stay ugly |timestamp=3:39 AM 路 Sep 2, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3704373990 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Higgs mass is akin to the once poorly motivated "neutral currents" rejected by [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] as merely invoked for renormalizabilty. Now: not so. |timestamp=3:49 AM 路 Sep 2, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3704435018 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Challenge to my physics followers: what could possibly make the Mexican Hat quartic gorgeous, natural and canonical? #daretodream |timestamp=3:53 AM 路 Sep 2, 2009 }} |timestamp=3:56 AM 路 Sep 2, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3779359863 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Fascinated by [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] fans who don't realize he would have humiliated them just to steal their wives at the end of the seminar. |timestamp=2:32 PM 路 Sep 5, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4309514559 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Q: Was [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] initially incapable of explaining his theory at a technical or a sociological level? (e.g. w/ Bohr, Oppenheimer) |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4309282320 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Here's something I never got. Why did [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] need Dyson to explain his theory? Did he? Or did he just need a non-Feynman? |timestamp=5:39 AM 路 Sep 23, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4309327773 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=I understand the Dyson added value by tying together Schwinger with [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]]. But it seems like [[Richard Feynman|RF]] couldn't get past the resistance. |timestamp=5:43 AM 路 Sep 23, 2009 }} |timestamp=5:56 AM 路 Sep 23, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4409695457 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Q1: Why did [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] ask to be removed from the National Academy of Sciences? Q2: How common is that? |timestamp=3:59 AM 路 Sep 27, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5632000667 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Debating whether to remind actual physicists of the role of experimenters in the Tau-Theta circus. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman's]] take: http://www.gorgorat.com/ |timestamp=10:52 PM 路 Nov 11, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6241378525 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein |content=Oppenheimer's famous repeating of Wigner's calling [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] 'a second Dirac' somehow managed to do no service to any of these heros. #nofecta |timestamp=5:37 PM 路 Dec 1, 2009 }}
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