Michael NielsenI'm a scientist, writer, and programmer.I work on ideas and tools that help peoplethink and create, both individually and collectively.I'm a Research Fellow atY Combinator Research.  I'm also a memberof the Steering Committee for thejournal Distill, and write anoccasional columnfor QuantaMagazine.Want to hear about my projects as they're released?Please join my mailing list.BooksNeuralNetworks and Deep Learning: A free online book explainingthe core ideas behind artificial neural networks and deeplearning. Code.Recent projectsIn what sense isquantum computing a science?Scienceis Getting Less Bang for its Buck (with Patrick Collison)The varieties of material existenceUsing ArtificialIntelligence to Augment Human Intelligence (with ShanCarter)Magic PaperThought as a TechnologyIsAlphaGo Really Such a Big Deal?Towardan Exploratory Medium for MathematicsBriefworking notes on striking user interfacesThePhysical Origin of Universal ComputingNeural Networks and Deep LearningSelected earlier projectsReinventingexplanation: Using new media to create new types ofexplanation.Howthe Bitcoin protocol actually works: Bitcoin isn't justelectronic money.  It's a system for creating new types ofprogrammable financial instrument, and thus new types of collectivebehaviour.  Here's how it works, from the ground up.
The
Artist and the Machine: How new aesthetics and forms of
beauty are discovered as we probe deeper into nature.
How
to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours: I was
curious to see how difficult it is to crawl a non-trivial fraction of
the web.  Not too difficult, it turns out.  Now used to crawl billions
of images at TinEye.
Lisp
as the Maxwell's equations of software: How to implement a
fully executable version of what Alan Kay once called "the Maxwell's
equations of software".
If
correlation doesn't imply causation, then what does?  How
can we determine when one event causes another?  The causal calculus
provides a partial answer.
Collective intelligence
Massively Collaborative Mathematics
Science Beyond Individual Understanding
The Economics of Scientific Collaboration
The Mismeasurement of Science
Shirky's Law and why (most) social software fails
Kasparov Versus the World
Open
science now!  How changing the political economy of
science will transform how we think and create.
Open science
The Future of Science
Is Scientific Publishing About to Be Disrupted?
Doing Science Online
Open Access: a Short Summary
Three Myths about Scientific Peer Review
The New Einsteins Will be Scientists Who Share
The Quantum World: An Introduction
Simple Rules for a Complex Quantum World
Why the World Needs Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Computing for Everyone
What's Wrong with those Quantum Cryptosystems?
Theory of
entanglement
When can one entangled state be transformed into another?
What about approximate
transformation?
A review: majorization and
quantum entanglement
Geometric complexity: Understanding quantum computing
as free fall in a curved
geometr