This book was a fascinating walk through evolutionary history and the way that different organisms handle energy, and how earlier, less efficient metabolic paths were limited but sufficient to bootstrap the much more efficient and flexible Kreb's cycle. I remember the term and the loop diagram from high school biology, but to actually dive into the elegant chemical pathways felt like discovering the rocket equation or the path from radioactivity to atomic bombs. If you're at all interested in Biology or Chemistry, I highly recommend this book.
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profchemai•8mo ago
The same argument could be made for the transformer paper: hijacking a nostalgia pop-culture name to name a deep learning bi-linear operator. Many papers are guilty of this, some just become very influencial.
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