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My personal site where I post essays about various things - generated using hakyll: https://www.awanderingmind.blog/

I found the writing, and the descriptions of the types of trisectors, strangely poignant. Most of us do not attempt to trisect an angle with straightedge and compass; but surely ma…

This is a strange analogy. The policy saves people money on their power bill. The backyward furnaces are considered a disaster because, among other things, they produced low qualit…

I incorrectly had a ≤ instead of =, my apologies.

There is a lot of focus in the comments on the authors' credentials and, apparently, their writing style. It is a pity, because I think their discussion of scaling is interesting, …

According to the actual paper ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.24088 ), it has been an open conjecture since at least 1977. The quote: > Unknotting number has long been conjectured to …

Cool example in that link, thanks!

Cool study. I really want to believe the results, but the effect on life extension is so large (see figure 2B) that I find it hard to. Maybe there was some uncontrolled confounding…

This perspective is addressed in the article... TLDR; that doesn't seem to be where this is going.

This is a rare type of article - a concrete analysis of different approaches to programming (that are arguably themselves reflections of different cognitive styles), that outlines …

You mean something like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit or this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_speed_limit ?

I hope you are right - the point about energy efficiency is certainly spot on, and I do think it is possible that people are getting carried away by analogies when discussing the t…

English is my second language too - ironically I am not so as proficient in my mother tongue, due to globalisation/imperialism. But it's ok, fortunately I love the language!

Well, it is still a career, but it's very niche, and more attuned to 'art' than 'documenting the world'.

Thanks for the positive feedback on my writing style! Based on feedback in this thread it seems to be a divisive topic, haha.

True! I don't literally live in a cave, but fortunately not everyone is so allergic to whimsical language :D.

A reasonable question - another way of looking at it is that theorems are just a side effect of mathematical research. Much of the world economy depends on things like cryptography…

I am not suggesting models will be capable of generating 'all' proofs - that is clearly impossible. Merely that they will get better at doing so, and there is no clear reason at th…

Some people do!

In my case, when you aren't paid to do it, and don't have (much) time to study it formally anymore.

I wasn't aware of this, thanks for posting! Very amusing.