Et cetera
About me
Trivia
I am a sansei. My second name, Koji (Kōji), is a reference to my grandfather’s name. In Japanese, my name is written 宮本 エンヒッケ 弘二.
My mother tongue is Brazilian Portuguese.
I am a fan of Studio Ghibli films, and of Joe Hisaishi’s soundtracks. My favourite film is Princess Mononoke.
My Mastodon account is mathstodon.xyz/@miyamotohk.
My MR collaboration distance to Claude Shannon is 4.
Homeland
Eu vim
Eu vim da Bahia cantar
Eu vim da Bahia contar
Tanta coisa bonita que tem
Na Bahia, que é meu lugar
Tem meu chão, tem meu céu, tem meu mar
(Eu Vim da Bahia - João Gilberto)
FEEC academic tree
See more here (in Portuguese).
Interesting links
Articles: research and society
Research and society
- The push for open access is making science less inclusive. Alicia Kowaltowski, Marcus Oliveira, Ariel Silber and Hernan Chaimovich, Times Higher Education (2021).
- Corrigir o desastre da Internet (in Portuguese or Spanish). Delia Rodríguez, El País (2018).
- The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Martin A. Schwartz, Journal of Cell Science (2008).
Information theory
- How Shannon entropy imposes fundamental limits on communication. Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine (2022).
- How Claude Shannon invented the future. David Tse, Quanta Magazine (2020).
- How to use a sphere to talk to Mars. Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine (2017).
Videos
- Solving Wordle using information theory, 3Blue1Brown (2022).
- Why we should invest in rat massage, MinuteEarth (2019).
- Information Theory playlist, Art of the Problem.
- IEEE ITsoc videos, Art of the Problem series.
- The Bit Player (documentary film about Claude Shannon), Mark A. Levinson (2019).
Miscellaneous
- minutephysics
- PHD Comics
- xkcd
- A “proof by contradiction” to why research in mathematics should be funded.
“É preciso estar atento e forte / Não temos tempo de temer a morte.”
— Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil in Divino Maravilhoso