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by encyclopediai 4d ago
Most mathematicians do compete for funding, based essentially on how many articles they can publish and where. Publication strongly favors problem solving. Universities are ranked on the same criteria. What we see is a panic reaction to the
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by encyclopediai 4d ago
I feel like Randy Waterhouse in the scene where he was trying to (not) participate to a discussion at the table concerning the internet. Everybody knows what eating the seed corn means. There is no seed corn analog in mathematics. Since the
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by encyclopediai 5d ago
The is no "the mathematicians". Some mathematicians, very influent ones, are mad at AI, for social reasons, because it shows problem solving is "easy". Mathematics is fine and will be fine in the future.
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by encyclopediai 5d ago
I disagree with this scarcity point of view. Concrete example: Navier-Stokes. I don't make any claims about the truth of the announcement of the proof. But for the sake of the argument le't just suppose we know now that there is a
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by encyclopediai 5d ago
Mathematics called and says she's fine. She's curious about how is that possible. Misaligned are the present academic merit system hand in hand with financial interests of academic publishing industry. The system will be exploited
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by encyclopediai 6d ago
I run such tests since a long time at chorasimilarity open notebook. I always used guest non login accounts. As a mathematician I was able to check two plagiates (by humans) with even such primitive means. But I have to mention that some th