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You got the hindu date wrong. The Hindu cosmology actually has scales comparable with what modern cosmology believes.

Sure, the best chess/go players on this planet are not humans anymore and those games are full of novel situations with no known solutions.

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For the stacks project, absolutely yes.

While there can be advantages to reading a lot and reading fast, I would also suggest that there is value to reading less (but still consistently) and letting your brain mull thing…

Mathematician too. I would say we still don't really know what a set is. ZFC "explains" sets in terms of... axioms and models of them which are also just sets? Should I worry about…

I am not pursuing a PhD in pure math so I certainly have both interest and ability in doing academic stuff but I found it incredibly hard to get acceptable grades in high school.

He has spent a large amount of time coordinating and strategizing health care interventions in multiple countries over the last couple of decades. Seems like he would be in a very …

I am one such mathematician.

No comment about the broader picture but there have been very smart people who have quit academia and gone into industry for whatever reason. Maybe the most famous is Jim Simons (h…

The discussion is really about the Chinese (and American) governments. The US government is really... Not great. See wars in the middle east, spying on its people, military industr…

You can get them in mobile for like a dollar each and they are just as good if my memory is anything to go by!

This is one of the best interviews I have ever seen. The interviewer is really good and some of the stories are amazing.

No, for any practical applications, we might as well work assume it is true, the same way we assume quantum physics or relativity are true when building stuff.

Can you define precisely what you mean by random in this context?

A very approximate proxy might be pets.

You are correct, group theory did start with the permutations of roots of polynomials. In the other hand, the modern perspective is to consider these groups as coming from geometry…

Maybe this is not the right forum but my lichess app has a big where if I am watching a chess game on it, the pieces sometimes disappear or change position. It's been going on for …

You have to keep in mind that gaming is a very new medium. The more artistic variety of games has only been around for a few years. To demand something on the level of Shakespeare …

Well, P/NP really has almost no bearing on this problem. That is a theoretical problem and even if P=NP, the algorithm could have a ginormous constant or degree. Conversely even if…

I don't think most people intentionally do this. It just makes someone look smart if they proclaim things confidently and so they do it. I try to be as honest as possible when comm…

It's a specific term in chess like castling or checkmate.

The black knight plays for black.