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December: I printed some papers

December: I printed some papers

Today, I printed some papers.

I have always been fascinated by science. Cells, planets, stars, atoms, ions, charges, gravity, electricity, evolution, earth, black holes, DNA, genes, light, sound, time, space - these ideas blow my mind every time I think about them.

Yet, I have always felt I know very little about them. With some freelancing money I just made, I decided to print some papers that introduced these topics to the world. My goal here is to just read them and try to learn more about our world, our scientific understanding till now.

I love these topics and even if I don't read them all, having these papers will remind me of these ideas that I have always loved thinking about. Maybe I'll update this blog with what I learn.

General Science:

  • "On the Origin of Species", Charles Darwin, 1859
  • "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field", James Clerk Maxwell, 1865
  • "Experiments on Plant Hybridization", Gregor Mendel, 1866
  • "On the Law of the Photoelectric Effect", Albert Einstein, 1905
  • "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", Albert Einstein, 1905
  • "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules", Niels Bohr, 1913
  • "A Relation Between Distance and Radial Velocity Among Extra-Galactic Nebulae", Edwin Hubble, 1929
  • "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids", James Watson and Francis Crick, 1953
  • "The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA", James Watson, 1968
  • "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger", LIGO Scientific Collaboration, 2016

Computing:

  • "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem", Alan Turing, 1936
  • "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity", Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts, 1943
  • "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", Claude Shannon, 1948
  • "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", Alan Turing, 1950
  • "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication", Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, 1974
  • "The UNIX Time-Sharing System", D.M. Ritchie and K. Thompson, 1978
  • "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008
  • "ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks", Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey E. Hinton, 2012
  • "Attention Is All You Need", Google Research, 2017