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Hardy would agree with the viewpoint that you espouse but it would be pushed back against by Arnol'd, Poincare, Gauss, Von Neumann, and even Grothendiek: Arnol'd and Poincare were …

"The bulk of US college students attend colleges who do not have the resources to build high-quality, industry relevant curriculum, train teachers to teach with modern pedagogy, an…

Am I misunderstanding your post?: you're implying that HYPSM increase their matriculation by ten times? These "elite" colleges,—one of which I've attended for graduate school,—have…

Great article. I recently went through Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon; the sequence of eccentric personalities in this article reminded me of a similar section that Pynchon has in the…

You would forget that this would cause exponential growth: in a couple decades, a single lab could produce more people seeking tenure track than an entire country's worth of positi…

There's a big difference between cutting off all foreign-born talent—and addressing the serious issue of graduate school turning into an immigration racket; the current issue with …

I know absolutely nothing about string theory, or the culture of high-energy physics, but I don't buy the pecuniary argument you are making. You aren't considering the downwind eff…

I was driving from Sacramento to Reno, and there was a bad snowfall up in the mountains. I ended up getting struck in a small country town, and couldn't get up an iced hill. I thou…

This is cool to look at, but isn't this just obtained by taking the absolute value of the first equation minus the second? These are very pretty visualizations—but trying to presen…

I'd like to know about your experience in modern academe. I've gone to top-ranked schools in America (UT Austin, Stanford). My experience with the average foreign graduate student …

Wonderful, now we're at a point where Hacker News has people defending a fundamentalist antisemitic hate group that's quite literally performed suicide bombings and launched rocket…

To add to what the other guy said, rotors (by extension Clifford Algebra) is better. A fatal issue with Quaternions is that while they handle rotations perfectly, things like the n…

Ouch. Out of curiosity could you link to the Nature article in question?

>They just know it. Tell that to cane toads.

> Even engineering undergrads have to learn formal logic in their first semester. I got my engineering B.S. from a top 5 college in the US, and have known many people who have gone…

Yes, but I think this presents the core of the problem in modern pedagogical methods when it comes to mathematics. The Bourbaki attempted to reduce math to a highly axiomatic found…