Ecosyste.ms: Awesome

An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.

Awesome Lists | Featured Topics | Projects

https://github.com/naveenarun/awesome-unreasonable-effectiveness

A list of papers, blog posts, etc. talking about the unreasonable effectiveness of X in Y
https://github.com/naveenarun/awesome-unreasonable-effectiveness

List: awesome-unreasonable-effectiveness

Last synced: about 1 month ago
JSON representation

A list of papers, blog posts, etc. talking about the unreasonable effectiveness of X in Y

Awesome Lists containing this project

README 

        
# Awesome "Unreasonable Effectiveness" papers



This collection is a tribute to the notion of "unreasonable effectiveness", first explored in the 1959 publication by Eugene Wigner titled ["The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences"](https://personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/teaching/ph201/Week15_xtra_Wigner.pdf). It is a list of papers, blog posts, etc. that discuss the unreasonable effectiveness of X in Y, helping us rediscover our sense of wonder at the philosophy behind accepted techniques in many fields.



## Table of Contents



1. [Academic Papers](#academic-papers)

1. [Blogs](#blogs)

2. [Presentations](#presentations)

1. [Unreasonable *In*effectiveness](#unreasonable-ineffectiveness)



# Academic Papers



- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences](https://personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/teaching/ph201/Week15_xtra_Wigner.pdf)

- [The “unreasonable effectiveness” of stratigraphic and geomorphic experiments](https://www2.tulane.edu/~kmstraub/Publications/Paola_09.pdf)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Pruning: Return of the Most Naive Baseline for Sparse Training](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02643)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/35179.pdf)

- [Unreasonable effectiveness of learning neural networks: From accessible states and robust ensembles to basic algorithmic schemes](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1608103113)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks in Population Genetic Inference](https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/36/2/220/5229930)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fully-Connected Layers for Low-Data Regimes](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05657)

- [The unreasonable effectiveness of deep learning in artificial intelligence](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1907373117)

- [Untidy Data: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Tables](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9555457&tag=1)

- [On the Unusual Effectiveness of Logic in Computer Science](https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=811157902369d690a29d81ab070960d34139a1b3)

- [On The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SAT Solvers](https://www.cs.rice.edu/~vardi/papers/SATSolvers21.pdf)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Number Theory](http://www.ams.org/books/psapm/046/psapm046-endmatter.pdf)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Advancing Cancer Research](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/5380)

- [The unreasonable effectiveness of equilibrium gene regulation through the cell cycle](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.31.535089v1)

- [The unreasonable effectiveness of tree-based theory for networks with clustering](https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.83.036112)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Zhang_The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_CVPR_2018_paper.pdf)

- [On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Greedy Algorithm: Greedy Adapts to Sharpness](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/pokutta20a.html)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Transformer Language Models in Grammatical Error Correction](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4412/)

- [The unreasonable effectiveness of small neural ensembles in high-dimensional brain](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30366739/)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Decoherence](http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/19125/)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Structured Random Orthogonal Embeddings](https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/hash/bf8229696f7a3bb4700cfddef19fa23f-Abstract.html)

- [The unreasonable effectivness of CALL: What have we learned in two decades of research?](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/recall/article/abs/unreasonable-effectivness-of-call-what-have-we-learned-in-two-decades-of-research/57443DBECF885B4CA7282AC3996EBE21)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Affine Hecke Algebra](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1802378)

- [The unreasonable effectiveness of few-shot learning for machine translation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01398)



# Blogs



- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Checklists](https://rs.io/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-checklists/)

- [The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday](https://typesense.org/blog/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-just-showing-up-everyday/)

- [The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones](https://www.benkuhn.net/11/)

- [The Effectiveness of Unreasonable Small Groups](https://gwern.net/note/small-groups)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Small Optimizations](https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of)

- [On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of turning computers off and on again](https://keunwoo.com/notes/rebooting/)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Operations Research](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-operations-research/72212/)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Pronouns](https://www.vectorsofmind.com/p/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of 1-1 Learning](https://every.to/superorganizers/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-1-1-learning)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Test Retries: An Android Monorepo Case Study](https://shopify.engineering/unreasonable-effectiveness-test-retries-android-monorepo-case-study)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of VLC](https://kylebenzle.medium.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-vlc-424bde0f90f1)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of TDD](https://bignerdranch.com/blog/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-tdd/)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data Pipeline Smoke Tests](https://dagster.io/blog/smoke-test-data-pipeline)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL](https://www.couchbase.com/blog/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-sql/)

- [The Unreasonable Syntactic Expressivity of RNNs](http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/dynamic-static-typing/)

- [The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language](https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-the-julia-programming-language/)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences](https://extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-quasirandom-sequences/)

- [How Do We Explain the Unreasonable Effectiveness of IT?](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/7/6/how-do-we-explain-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-it.html)

- [Unreasonable Effectiveness of Knot Theory](https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-knot-theory)

- [The unreasonable effectiveness of C](https://www.osnews.com/story/26689/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-c/)



# Presentations



- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of a Single Wide Event](https://www.honeycomb.io/resources/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-a-single-wide-event)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch](https://www.juliaopt.org/meetings/santiago2019/slides/stefan_karpinski.pdf)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quantum Physics in Modern Mathematics](https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2015/dijkgraaf-unreasonable-effectiveness)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of JPEG: A Signal Processing Approach](https://www.franksworld.com/2022/01/26/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-jpeg-a-signal-processing-approach/)

- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Spectral Graph Theory: A Confluence of Algorithms, Geometry, and Physics](https://simons.berkeley.edu/events/open-lecture-unreasonable-effectiveness-spectral-graph-theory-confluence-algorithms-geometry)



# Unreasonable *In*effectiveness



- [The unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in economics](https://www.jstor.org/stable/23601602)

- [A mathematician's view of the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04190)

- [The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Philosophy](https://philosophynow.org/issues/17/The_Unreasonable_Ineffectiveness_of_Philosophy)