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Physics doesn't need another Einstein. Einstein explained Brownian motion, the Photoelectric effect, created special relativity and general relativity, the cosmological constant, h…

Hilbert and Courant is BY FAR the best mathematical physics book in existence. No contest. Boas and all the others are good, even very good. H & C beats them by a kiloParsec.

Do you think it might be related to this event? (linked below ) I'm going to make a guess, that there might have been a nuclear detonation. It probably wasn't a test. This seems to…

I disagree that quantum mechanics needs fixing. What it requires is understanding. Many people even ones with PhDs don't really have a deep understanding of QM. Ask a grad student …

Isn't this the tipping point when a company crosses the line, becomes a monopoly, restricts consumer choices, and suffocates competition by leveraging the entire playing field? We'…

Get a copy of Racket, take notes, type in the programs for yourself, experiment. This video is the best most direct introduction I have yet found. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a…

I'm definitely going to listen to the Lex Fridman lectures simply because I enjoyed his interview with Judea Pearl so much.

We also passed 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere. Best decade ever for sealing peoplekind's fate.

That can't possibly be true, not while Trump is president.

Is Hacker News fake news? Many times people post things that would make a real expert roll their eyes. There are some smart people here but also lots of inaccurate information.

Is anyone out there simply unaware of the "fake news" phenomenon. Are we so inured that we cannot differentiate BS from the real thing and need to be protected? I don't think so. E…

WWF is all fake. Why not the WWW?

It's a matter of degree. Everything is shades of grey. Google has become a very dark shade of grey.

Google started out as a tech company and then later became a part of the US Deep State (Prism program). I think any good the company was doing will be long overshadowed by this unf…

Very nice article. I'm intrigued by the Khovanov homology and its relation to the geometric Langlands program. I don't know any knot theory yet but fortunately I know quantum mecha…

A bird in the hand is worth three in the bush. If I could give someone from a non-mathematician background, e.g. programmer, who sincerely wants to get a peek behind the curtain an…

Interesting topic. Non-English based programming languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...

Always. Robin Hartshorne's "Geometry: Euclid and Beyond" is the best book of its kind. It does Euclidean geometry with Hilbert's axioms and cleans up some of the loose ends of Eucl…

It's a very good start. From there I think the most productive thing anyone could do is make a very thorough study of Classical Mechanics. People underestimate how much a thorough …

Agreed. Hard for some people to appreciate but so true.

There are some really good suggestions here. I would like to add that learning calculus properly is of the utmost importance. It's no exaggeration when I say that this is unquestio…

WASM will eventually catch up to the glory days of Flash and far surpass them. It will be amazing.

It's very likely a unified theory will win a prize maybe even the Nobel Prize but it isn't going to happen anytime soon. FWIW I'm about as convinced of the truth of string theory a…

Haskell basics are easy to learn. Nobody learns Haskell to linger on the basics. Haskell is a useful tool for express a deep ideas which aren't basic and require time, effort, focu…

I've wanted to study Sanskrit for a while now but nobody around where I live can teach it. So I've been nibbling at at occasionally. Some points of pronunication are a bit vague su…