Alexander Bain

Person · Open Library

Works

84

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

United States

Active from

2007-01-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2

Total plays

5

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 51,043x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,565x

3. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge

   · 2015 · cited 30,528x

4. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

   · 2012 · cited 24,588x

5. QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

   · 2009 · cited 22,954x

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Quotes

• “Instinct is untaught ability.”
• “Disinterestedness is as great a puzzle and paradox as ever. Indeed, strictly speaking, it is a species of irrationality, or insanity, as regards the individual’s self; a contradiction of the most essential nature of a sentient being, which is to move to pleasure and from pain”
• “The arguments for the two substances - mind and body - have, we believe, entirely lost their validity; they are no longer compatible with ascertained science and clear thinking. One substance with two sets of attributes, two sides (a physical and a mental), a double-faced unity, would appear to comply with all the exigencies of the case.”
• “Those that can readily master the difficulties of Mathematics find a considerable charm in the study, sometimes amounting to fascination. This is far from universal; but the subject contains elements of strong interest of a kind that constitutes the pleasures of knowledge. The marvellous devices for solving problems elate the mind with the feeling of intellectual power; and the innumerable constructions of the science leave us lost in wonder.”
• “The method of arithmetical teaching]] is perhaps the best understood of any of the methods concerned with elementary studies.”
• “He that could teach mathematics well, would not be a bad teacher in any of the rest [physics, chemistry, biology, psychology] unless by the accident of total inaptitude for experimental illustration; while the mere experimentalist is likely to fall into the error of missing the essential condition of science as reasoned truth; not to speak of the danger of making the instruction an affair of sensation, glitter, or pyrotechnic show.”

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