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If you think of this as a search, retrieval and “application” problem on the space of convex optimization proof techniques, it’s not a particularly striking result to a mathematici…

Agreed. Something else that might be driving this is that existing models essentially get the job done for most users, who —- unlike HN commenters (I promise this is human generate…

Sure Klartag isnt a sphere packing specialist by training, but he's one of the best problem solvers around. He just resolved the Hyperplane Conjecture earlier this year and has con…

Not sure I agree. It does a decent job of conveying the essential idea for a broader readership: perturb a graph through its adjacency matrix just enough to make the universality c…

> I wonder how helpful it would be for music and art education if AI could help us deconstruct some songs. Was thinking along the same lines as I fell into the trap of Ghiblifying …

As a mathematician, I can't help but simmer each time I find the profession's insistence on grasping the how's and why's of matters to be dismissed as pedantry. Actionable results …

Not at all, the proof was a very elegant argument involving fourier transforms and an integral estimate going back to the study of controlling random walks (Khintchine's inequality…

You're on the right track. My comment alludes to sections, but there's a lot of essentially analogous math that explains the phenomena via shadows/"projections."

Something I worked on in my PhD was analyzing high dimensional bodies via their "sections." Here's the Busemann Petty Problem: Given two origin symmetric convex bodies K and L in n…

If you're willing to pay, Interintellect might be it. https://interintellect.com/

Previous discussion from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17873284

Ah yes, learning (imitating?) how not to imitate from a listicle that itself cites advice from a compendium of books and sources. Sorry, couldn't help myself.

I don't think software developers/professionals have acquired the cultural capital to be viewed as elites quite yet. I think much of the antagonistic Silicon Valley coverage in pub…

Great recommendation. When I first listened to this podcast, I was impressed by how the conversation managed to hit the sweet spot of engagement for both non technical (a friend I …

Thanks for pointing that out. My apologies for missing Tomonaga. Was going on my anecdotal memory, should have researched.

Freeman Dyson is a glaring miss here. Feynman and Schwinger shared the 1965 Nobel in Physics for their respective perspectives on Quantum Electrodynamics. But it was Dyson who unif…

Seconded. Read Lasch (Revolt of the Elites) to make sense of what dyed-in-wool Marxists think of the Woke "ideology" (if we can even be charitable enough to use that word, for most…

1) These two single volume histories were good starts for me: a) John Keay's "China: A History" and b) Fairbank/Goldman's "China: A New History". 2) HUP's History of Imperial China…

The point about your mom (and more broadly older faculty) is important. I hope it works out for her. Vulnerable faculty will likely be forced to hold "in-person" lectures (ergo wor…

John Cochrane, over at Hoover wrote about university finances in light of Covid19 a few months back. Worth a read. https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/04/university-financ...