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Hans Moravec Interview(nymag.com)
3 points by zyklu5 2mo ago|0 comments
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by zyklu5 2mo ago
Similar fun at this Baez blog post from a decade ago: Surprises in Logic: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/surprises.html
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by zyklu5 2mo ago
Nice! Thanks for this. More details at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4872
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by zyklu5 6mo ago
Their explanation for why their idea (SSD) might work - precision-exploration conflict hypothesis - is something adaptive decoding also tries to solve. https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/adaptive-decoding-..
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by zyklu5 6mo ago
Thank you very much for the link. This letter from Maxwell to Faraday: https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3354 is very surprising to me. Already they are thinking of gravity in field theoretic
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by zyklu5 1y ago
Indeed. In fact, it is one of the most amusing aspect of the anglophone west (at least for the last few decades). Despite public perception (by public I mean those who have been to university since the 90s), Western historians of science an
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by zyklu5 1y ago
On the contrary, what is presented by the OP is one of the many reasons that worship of science's heroes, unfashionable for decades, a whiggish pablum, is justified. If great results were birthed fully-formed -- a view I've frankl
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by zyklu5 2y ago
If I'm being honest I really don't have a good recommendation for a text in intro abstract algebra. I learned it from Michael Artin's Algebra. Artin is a true master -- along with David Mumford, he was the main apostle for Gr
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by zyklu5 2y ago
There is indeed a deep connection between what is going on behind Arnold's proof and the classical Galois theory. But it needs quite a bit of sophistication to flesh out properly (not apparent in his famous lectures given to high schoo
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by zyklu5 2y ago
Let me take this opportunity to post one of the best texts on Galois Theory I have read -- and I had to go through quite a few while preparing for a class. https://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/Galois.pdf The subject is devel
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by zyklu5 2y ago
You know how in every zombie movie there's a bit where our intrepid protagonists must blend in to avoid capture. I think this is that sort of thing.
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by zyklu5 2y ago
Atiyah is truly one of the giants of modern mathematics. I remember long ago I struggled through a reading course of his and Bott's Yang-Mills paper in graduate school. Like many great works of math it too had that paradoxical characte
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by zyklu5 2y ago
And why should I simply assume that "Education Economists"* really know the subject they purport to talk about? Because they are credentialed members of university departments with some label? Because a few of them won some Bank o
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by zyklu5 2y ago
Claude is still better in my opinion. There's a suite of code-related tasks -- covering a diversity of areas, including dev ops, media manipulation etc., derived from issues I have faced over the years -- I perform for every new releas
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by zyklu5 2y ago
Thank you so much for this! I have read a fair amount of Lem but somehow completely missed this one.
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My Lunch with V.I. Arnold [pdf](gomboc.eu)
1 points by zyklu5 2y ago|0 comments
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by zyklu5 2y ago
Here is Frank Calegari's excellent talk on this work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znBdPEyDScY
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Mechanistic Interpretability (Of Large Language Models) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by zyklu5 2y ago|0 comments
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by zyklu5 2y ago
Re: that dig at 4-manifolds Are you aware of the book on [The Disc Embedding Theorem]( https://academic.oup.com/book/43693 ) based on 12 lectures Freedman gave roughly a decade ago.
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by zyklu5 2y ago
I think you've simply redefined genius. Many years ago I read an article on youth football, if I remember correctly, and in it there was a bit about the writers visit to the Ajax Youth Academy. In it he writes of a moment during practi
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by zyklu5 2y ago
Maybe I am misinterpreting but this is a beautifully crafted bit of wry humour. :D
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by zyklu5 2y ago
You must interact with more interesting people than I because to me LLMs have demonstrated as much "common sense, insight, creativity, self awareness, humor" as the average person I run into (actually maybe more but that makes me
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by zyklu5 2y ago
As a first pass, check out the pop history book called Fearless Symmetry by Ash and Gross. Next, and perhaps I shouldn't be suggesting it, Serre's A Course in Arithmetic. Despite it's reputation of terseness it is a great boo
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by zyklu5 2y ago
This guy's other notes are also well thought through and written. Thanks for the link.
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by zyklu5 2y ago
The guy being interviewed (Daniel Litt) has a great expository video on Hilbert's third problem at Numberphile. (Here)[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYfpSAxGakI ] Hilbert's Third was the first of his 23 problems
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by zyklu5 2y ago
Thanks for the reference. I am indeed aware of The Renaissance Mathematicus and I do occasionally read the blog. Unfortunately I find his posts are often lighter on mathematical detail. Maybe the situation is different with his writing on K
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by zyklu5 2y ago
Surprised to see this on HN. He had lived a long full life. This brings to mind the depressing fact that Serre too will pass away one of these days. And we will ever see that kind of mathematician ever again.
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Kepler's New Astronomy [video](youtube.com)
1 points by zyklu5 2y ago|3 comments
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by zyklu5 2y ago
This is the first part of a two part series on Kepler's work. It's a wonderful work of pedagogy striking the pretty difficult balance between mathematical detail and pop science story telling. The videos go into a surprising amoun
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by zyklu5 2y ago
This is not correct since you can claim the above for any number of votes actually obtained (if you asked someone to pick a number from 1 to 10 million, any number the person picks (assuming iid picks) will be by definition 10^-7). The prob

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