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Thanks to this I know that there is exactly 1 way of positioning 0 queens on 0x0 chessboard without any two of them attacking each other.

Not specifically in pure maths, but agree I also found that a math PhD is good to have for jobs in AI, finance etc. But an equivalent industry experience might be worth the same at…

There is Artin's approach, and then there is a more abstract approach by Grothendieck relating to the fundamental group of algebraic topology. In the movie Beautiful mind there is …

Very true. When I was doing PhD in pure maths I had random people explain to me that a PhD would not necessarily give me an advantage in the job market. Like I would come to do a P…

Samuel Eilenberg, one of the founders of category theory, used to tell to his students "You should have you own category". Meaning, that when you work on category theory you should…

To what extent can you get into category theory or homotopy type theory without learning some algebra or algebraic geometry/topology?

Perhaps being recorded was a big deal back then. So they made more effort. Today it is common to have ones speech recorded, even for mass media.

It's a joke man, why downvoting? :)

that engineers don't get laid.

To be honest, the most disadvantaged are the native English speakers. Nobody understands them.

The idea that people with darker personalities will succeed may also be a perception bias. According to this article we are talking about 20% of people with some degree of "dark tr…

It is not true that traits that are not advantageous are unlikely to be maintained over many generations. For example, many genetic diseases have survived for many generations. Thi…

How do psychologists measure personality traits to classify people in these kinds of categories (dark/light)?

Incidentally we still have "Silk Road" today. In its modern usage it refers particularly to some oil and gas pipelines running from the east to the west. In the latest news on the …

Did some googling, and came across this article about this Basque Pidgin https://core.ac.uk/reader/230764570 . It contains many interesting facts. Including the passage: "Certain s…

Yes, yet we humans do it all right.

Some time ago I needed ball video tracking for a demo at work. I failed to find any out of the box solution which worked satisfactorily. It was way easier to find solutions for see…

I saw a couple of comments complaining about making people into data points, and that this is dehumanising. But I do not see this. Growth of data based technologies and information…

This is perhaps more about economic competition than data safety. China has been doing this for a long time. USA is also taking the same approach recently.