zornthewise

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by zornthewise 3y ago
You got the hindu date wrong. The Hindu cosmology actually has scales comparable with what modern cosmology believes.
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by zornthewise 3y ago
Sure, the best chess/go players on this planet are not humans anymore and those games are full of novel situations with no known solutions.
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by zornthewise 5y ago
For the stacks project, absolutely yes.
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by zornthewise 6y ago
While there can be advantages to reading a lot and reading fast, I would also suggest that there is value to reading less (but still consistently) and letting your brain mull things over. Some thoughts really do require time.
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by zornthewise 6y ago
Mathematician too. I would say we still don't really know what a set is. ZFC "explains" sets in terms of... axioms and models of them which are also just sets? Should I worry about this recursion? Who knows, we just pretend t
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by zornthewise 6y ago
I am not pursuing a PhD in pure math so I certainly have both interest and ability in doing academic stuff but I found it incredibly hard to get acceptable grades in high school.
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by zornthewise 6y ago
He has spent a large amount of time coordinating and strategizing health care interventions in multiple countries over the last couple of decades. Seems like he would be in a very good position to explain this stuff to the public.
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by zornthewise 6y ago
I am one such mathematician.
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by zornthewise 6y ago
No comment about the broader picture but there have been very smart people who have quit academia and gone into industry for whatever reason. Maybe the most famous is Jim Simons (he had an exceptional mathematical career before going into f
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by zornthewise 6y ago
The discussion is really about the Chinese (and American) governments. The US government is really... Not great. See wars in the middle east, spying on its people, military industrial complex, bad environmental record, bad civil rights reco
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by zornthewise 6y ago
You can get them in mobile for like a dollar each and they are just as good if my memory is anything to go by!
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by zornthewise 6y ago
This is one of the best interviews I have ever seen. The interviewer is really good and some of the stories are amazing.
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An interview with Ed Fraenkel, mathematician and math popularizer(youtube.com)
1 points by zornthewise 6y ago|1 comments
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by zornthewise 8y ago
No, for any practical applications, we might as well work assume it is true, the same way we assume quantum physics or relativity are true when building stuff.
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by zornthewise 8y ago
Can you define precisely what you mean by random in this context?
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by zornthewise 9y ago
A very approximate proxy might be pets.
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by zornthewise 9y ago
You are correct, group theory did start with the permutations of roots of polynomials. In the other hand, the modern perspective is to consider these groups as coming from geometry (the etale fundamental group point of view) and is really a
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by zornthewise 9y ago
Maybe this is not the right forum but my lichess app has a big where if I am watching a chess game on it, the pieces sometimes disappear or change position. It's been going on for a while but seems to game gotten worse recently. It see
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by zornthewise 9y ago
You have to keep in mind that gaming is a very new medium. The more artistic variety of games has only been around for a few years. To demand something on the level of Shakespeare is very disingenuous. A better way of seeing why games can b
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by zornthewise 11y ago
Well, P/NP really has almost no bearing on this problem. That is a theoretical problem and even if P=NP, the algorithm could have a ginormous constant or degree. Conversely even if P=/=NP, the problem might be very easy to solve a
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by zornthewise 11y ago
I don't think most people intentionally do this. It just makes someone look smart if they proclaim things confidently and so they do it. I try to be as honest as possible when communicating and I have caught myself sometimes stating th
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by zornthewise 11y ago
It's a specific term in chess like castling or checkmate.
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by zornthewise 11y ago
The black knight plays for black.
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by zornthewise 11y ago
I found in on mathoverflow in one of the comments posted by a prominent mathematician not featured in the interviews.
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by zornthewise 11y ago
There are sixteen interviews each of them about 18 pages long. The interviewers are really good and the answers are long and detailed and reveal a lot about how universities have changed over the last century among other things.
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Fascinating Mathematical People (2011) [pdf](math.uiuc.edu)
9 points by zornthewise 11y ago|3 comments
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by zornthewise 11y ago
They might be able to save up money and get more efficient hardware that eventually beats the science/electricity cost of distributed computing.
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by zornthewise 11y ago
The simple idea is that while linear maps(matrices) are generally a combination of rotations, scaling and other stuff in higher dimensions, sometimes they will act on a vector simply by scaling it. Since scaling is a really easy operation t
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by zornthewise 11y ago
My reading of Feynman is a little different: I think the point is that philosophy of science has only analysed history so far and has never by itself brought about a change in the way science is done. This is not to say that the philosophy
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by zornthewise 11y ago
This is just something I thought of and I am not sure if this makes sense but mathematicians explore objects much in the same way particle physicists do. So the physicists bounces particles off each other and see what happens to understand

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