And the word was "God"
I want to explore a word that seems to be very triggering, and thereby somehow very important, in our culture: the word God. Whether you...
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Pavel Chvykov
Jul 23, 20224 min read
Mistakes as agency
We’re all somehow familiar with the concept that a person's actions can be “too perfect” – to the point of seeming creepy, or mechanical,...
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Pavel Chvykov
Jan 30, 20223 min read
Understanding the whole without the parts?
“I’m a physicist, I have a working knowledge of the entire universe and everything it contains” –Sheldon, “The Big Bang Theory” While...
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Pavel Chvykov
May 14, 20212 min read
Does butterfly affect?
Can a butterfly really cause a hurricane? Having been working in complexity science, I realize that I have a problem with the...
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Pavel Chvykov
Apr 4, 20212 min read
Our compressed perception
One of the most important and amazing feats that our brain learns to do in this complex world is to find compressed representations of...
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Pavel Chvykov
Feb 4, 20214 min read
Letters about structure of the universe
In this post, I wanted to share a bit of a sense of the more fun aspects of a scientific career: namely having cool conversations and...
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Pavel Chvykov
Jan 28, 20213 min read
In search of Truth
Is there one true way to understand a tree? Well, of course there is — talk to any scientist! A physicist will tell you that it’s a...
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Pavel Chvykov
Jan 20, 20212 min read
Is Santa real?
Just wanted to take a break to sprinkle some magic into this blog ;P Well as it happens, I have always believed in Santa. Perhaps thanks...
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Pavel Chvykov
Jan 15, 20212 min read
Deriving everyday reality from fundamental rules
What makes a good scientific model? As a theoretical physicist I used to think that modeling everything at the level of atoms seems like...
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