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As a curiosity, the contrast between Grothendieck and Ramanujan is very striking. One famous story about Ramanujan from Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number) ): "…

Peter Woit ( https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ ) has occasionally posted about Grothendieck's life and work. E.g. Articles on his life: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~…

My point is that it's really the storytelling/gregarious nature character. There is no shortage of people who were at the Manhattan project and won Nobel prizes or were prominent. …

It is very interesting to see completely different impressions of Feynman from comments here. As a physicist, I first got introduced to Feynman from his popular QED book as a fresh…

I think you are writing your comments conditioned on not just what you are responding to but also a lot of internal assumptions about their intentions. The person you are respondin…

I feel the American media and general public has gotten psyched by the recent announcements coming from China. This might be new weapons or Deepseek or conveniences in the cities. …

Even with thick desires, I sometimes find myself day-dreaming about the state when I have mastered a skill or understood a topic deeply. At the same time, I know from experience th…

As one example, I met quite a few graduate students from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) who ranked high enough in the entrance tests to study computer science/engineering o…

I came to the US for college from Asia to study physics (and mathematics). I actually came to study astronomy because I found it fascinating but didn't really like physics or math.…

Renting can be much better financially than buying. Edit: all % numbers are per year Consider the case of condos in cities. If you were to buy outright, you effectively get a retur…

I haven't thought about or learned a systematic way to add roman numerals. But, I would argue that the difference is not notation but a fundamental conceptual advance of representi…

I am not in Seattle. I do work in AI but have shifted more towards infrastructure. I feel fatigued by AI. To be more precise, this fatigue includes several factors. The first one i…

I find software engineers spend too much time focused on notation. Maybe they are right to do so and notation definitely can be helpful or a hindrance, but the goal of any mathemat…

In the same vein, I always wondered if * the vast majority (including me) are not really very intelligent. We have a lot of "state" that's transferred from generation to generation…

>>You can’t avoid the reality that’s your life depends on something else dying. Either plant insect or animal There are more nuanced ways of thinking about this. A good example is …

I keep seeing the argument that non-returners are creating jobs. Does that mean they also throw their trash on the streets so cleaners have to be hired? Should one randomly break i…

I always wondered if there are people who don't have a clear distinction between their private space/home and public space. Whether it's not putting their carts back, or talking lo…

It's very heartening to read this sentiment. Thank you!

100% agree. In south asia and south east asia (maybe other parts too), it's very common to have insects like spiders, lizards, local bugs, ants inside apartments and houses. No one…

I find this obsession with building strange. It's a very SaaS Silicon Valley mindset. There are whole swathes of very talented engineers who spend most of their time debugging, cha…

I am a big fan of using LLMs although in my own limited way. I don't work at Meta and don't feel strongly about him leaving or staying there. It's possible that he will turn out to…

A few people mentioned Meta burning through people like LeCun, Carmack and Luckey. We give a lot of credit to individuals in our society. At the same time, there's a frequent patte…

I see a lot of criticism of LeCun and his views on LLMs as well as his inability to "deliver" products. I don't think that's what he cares about at all. His prominence led to him b…

Ah no, I meant these ones by Graham: https://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-3rd-Ed/dp/006335... https://www.amazon.com/Security-Analysis-Seventh-Principles-... I'll paste a co…

I think a lot of this depends on where you started. I don't disagree that the details of the methods don't apply especially to technology stocks. On the other hand, one learns a pr…