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A better description is "simple", not "easy". "If you do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because you do not realize how complicated life is." -von Neumann

Some favorite math books Intro to Smooth Manifolds, Lee -- sweeping intro to geometry with minimal prereqs, great at balancing the nitty gritty details with conveying intuition A C…

Milnor is a wonderful writer, in his books as well as his papers.

> I'm not sure how useful category theory actually is in the example cases. It's hard to say that category theory is "applied" to this or that problem. you'll hear many mathematici…

The best book I've found for a non-math audience is Fong & Spivak, 7 Sketches in Compositionality.

In Theorem 1.1, f is a function of random variables, which might be where you're confused. > doesn't that mean y is a predictable function of x Sort of: as function of real numbers…

Not only is the diagnostic framework a joke, it's the basis of immense amounts of iatrogenic harm [0] [0] "Anatomy of An Epidemic", Robert Whittaker

+1 I recently read a The Idiot as well, another incredible work of his.

I'd be interested to see if these models are robust against algorithms like TextFooler [0]. I'm skeptical this trend of 10x'ing the parameters will solve the "clever hans" problem.…

This article is a great example of what I'd call "mindless problematization" From what I've seen, this is you're trained to do in modern humanities departments. Take any seemingly …

I'm a fan of deepmind and all, but this story has been way overblown based on what I saw in the actual code. There's nothing particularly new about mathematicians using computers t…

What is the bottom line on masks and COVID-19? I am really out of the loop, since the toxicity of the debate was exhausting. The last I heard was that transmission is mostly via ae…

Language models have the same defect - they are quite brittle and susceptible to black-box adversarial attacks ( eg arxiv.org/abs/1907.11932 )

I wonder if LZ would still be standard, if not for the inertia of gzip/zip? There are surely better and comparably fast algorithms (paq, ppm, etc.)

Tim Hecker!!

"I'm something of a scientist myself" -- Data Scientist

They'll put anything on hep-th nowadays

You can get a very good intuition with 3B1B's video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMuIxRvygQ )