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Kevin wrote a blog post on this topic here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-tricky-translation-of-mat...

You're correct: Wired has hyped the original title of the article in Quanta Magazine: "A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World". Any time you see the words "Math Genius" yo…

"A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing" by Stephan Mallat is pretty good if you've got a background in signal processing at the undergrad EE level. Math heavy CS may require some rec…

Keep it up. I had a similar experience. Even through my PhD at a top-tier school in applied math, I didn't do "all-nighters" or cram sessions. In fact, after my first 2 years of Ph…

> Failing at a startup sucks This. I have a PhD and a failed startup. It felt real bad, and I didn't get that far with it (9 months before calling it quits). Creating a successful …

Interesting. How does arbital see itself in relation to Wikipedia's math pages? It seems like you are trying to make it more accessible, like the Wikipedia simplified English descr…

> and there is a risk of Elsevier buying it to shut it down Yup. I'm still stung by Mendeley's sale to Elsevier.

Anyone have any details? I'm curious how much acqui-hires go for these days.

This confirms Elsevier's status as the most avaricious publisher, accounting for more than one-third of Finland's overall subscription costs. Wiley comes in a distance second at 10…

Open access repos are available for a number of schools. For Harvard, go to https://dash.harvard.edu/ . For Caltech, you can find all author's work here: http://authors.library.cal…

I may be misunderstanding, but the author asserts that Sydney and San Francisco are real (or rather, they have referents), and I'm confused because, in particular, Sydney and San F…

So... the assertion is that physical things are real and numbers are not? It's alluring to accept this axiom, but when challenging a platonic view of mathematics, I don't think tha…

> if you want to say something is true, you always need to know what difference it makes. Absolutely. It seems that fictionalism avoids both the "in some sense" qualifications and …

It is interesting to interpret the body of mathematics as you would a collection of fictional tales. However, the philosophy begins to unravel (to me) when it asserts that "8 is la…

This article appears to be bent on buttressing an anti-scientific religious viewpoint rather than improving science. (Read the last few paragraphs.) The conclusion strikes the same…

This relates closely to the [Darpa Spectrum Challenge]( http://archive.darpa.mil/spectrumchallenge/ ) that I participated in a couple years ago. The goal was to transmit informatio…

This is the crankiest comment I've seen on HN in a while. You "know Fields medalists"? Right. You think that Pricipia Mathematica is the source of all truth in mathematics? Wrong. …

I don't really see a compelling case for this method. The empirical convergence rates are clearly polynomial, while subspace iteration (e.g., Krylov) are "in theory" exponential an…

For the official announcement, where you'll hear all of the sound bytes you'll be reading later today, you can get to the livestream from Caltech's website here https://www.caltech…

Thanks for the edit. Of course an even number isn't prime ;)

# Run Miller-Rabin on the prime in the blink of an eye: from gmpy2 import mpz, is_prime p_list = [0xCC, 0x17, 0xF2, 0xDC, 0x96, 0xDF, 0x59, 0xA4, 0x46, 0xC5, 0x3E, 0x0E, 0xB8, 0x26…