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From the article, it seems like I could just fill in a grid with random numbers, wave my hands, and then divine the secrets of nature by reading it as tea leave
by CWuestefeld 17y ago
From the article, it seems like I could just fill in a grid with random numbers, wave my hands, and then divine the secrets of nature by reading it as tea leaves. What an awful article.
Also:
...has computed the locations of as many as 10^23 zeros of the Riemann zeta function and found a near-perfect agreement with random matrix theory.
I think that when you're talking about mathematics, "near-perfect agreement" is synonymous with "not in agreement".
- kurtosis 17y agoI'm really surprised at the negative reaction to this article! For what it's worth here's a great (much more mathematically sophisticated) article on this topic (that is nonetheless still quite speculative in its tone) http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/eigen.pdf http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/eigen.pdf