Michael Faraday’s lab. Interesting how early electricity researchers were basically chemists first. What new field today has an unlikely parent? What current field might give rise to an unlikely child field?

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I find it vaguely reassuring that the frontier of modern science was opened up by a nearly pure experimentalist who barely knew any formal math but who was thought by Maxwell to have been an intuitive math genius. https://warpcast.com/vgr/0x90ac00

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This book on Faraday is awesome if you haven’t read it. Great details: https://www.amazon.com/Faraday-Maxwell-Electromagnetic-Field-Revolutionized/dp/1633886077

There’s only two ways to make progress in science: one is to intuit, the other is to unintuit.

It wasn’t totally unforeseen, but it still seems odd that the matrix multipliers are poised to make so much progress in psychology.