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Similar fun at this Baez blog post from a decade ago: Surprises in Logic: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/surprises.html

Nice! Thanks for this. More details at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4872

Their explanation for why their idea (SSD) might work - precision-exploration conflict hypothesis - is something adaptive decoding also tries to solve. https://ai.meta.com/research…

Thank you very much for the link. This letter from Maxwell to Faraday: https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3354 is very surprising to me. Already they are thinking of…

Indeed. In fact, it is one of the most amusing aspect of the anglophone west (at least for the last few decades). Despite public perception (by public I mean those who have been to…

On the contrary, what is presented by the OP is one of the many reasons that worship of science's heroes, unfashionable for decades, a whiggish pablum, is justified. If great resul…

If I'm being honest I really don't have a good recommendation for a text in intro abstract algebra. I learned it from Michael Artin's Algebra. Artin is a true master -- along with …

There is indeed a deep connection between what is going on behind Arnold's proof and the classical Galois theory. But it needs quite a bit of sophistication to flesh out properly (…

Let me take this opportunity to post one of the best texts on Galois Theory I have read -- and I had to go through quite a few while preparing for a class. https://pages.uoregon.ed…

You know how in every zombie movie there's a bit where our intrepid protagonists must blend in to avoid capture. I think this is that sort of thing.

Atiyah is truly one of the giants of modern mathematics. I remember long ago I struggled through a reading course of his and Bott's Yang-Mills paper in graduate school. Like many g…

And why should I simply assume that "Education Economists"* really know the subject they purport to talk about? Because they are credentialed members of university departments with…

Claude is still better in my opinion. There's a suite of code-related tasks -- covering a diversity of areas, including dev ops, media manipulation etc., derived from issues I have…

Thank you so much for this! I have read a fair amount of Lem but somehow completely missed this one.

Here is Frank Calegari's excellent talk on this work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znBdPEyDScY

Re: that dig at 4-manifolds Are you aware of the book on [The Disc Embedding Theorem]( https://academic.oup.com/book/43693 ) based on 12 lectures Freedman gave roughly a decade ago…

I think you've simply redefined genius. Many years ago I read an article on youth football, if I remember correctly, and in it there was a bit about the writers visit to the Ajax Y…

Maybe I am misinterpreting but this is a beautifully crafted bit of wry humour. :D

You must interact with more interesting people than I because to me LLMs have demonstrated as much "common sense, insight, creativity, self awareness, humor" as the average person …