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Wonderful wonderful website. What happends to quirky people like this when they leave university and enter the industry?

by tw1010 8y ago

Aardwolf 8y ago
Hmm, didn't find it that wonderful, would prefer something that looks more neutral on my screen
- tlamponi 8y ago
  he was sarcastic...
  - sp332 8y ago
    I don't think it was sarcasm but they were making the same point. It's whimsical and excited and uncool. This will get you cachet among mathematicians though :)
    - rectang 8y ago
      Fortunately I don't have to go back and use this website time after time, which would get annoying. But as a one-shot, I love it!
      - princekolt 8y ago
        Exactly. This is effectively a hotsite for their proof.
  - tw1010 8y ago
    I wasn't sarcastic.
nmg 8y ago
Is there such a thing as "interactive nonfiction"? Because if not, there should be. Design educational websites this way and watch children learn.
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > Is there such a thing as "interactive nonfiction"? The real physical Universe is interactive nonfiction.
  - nathancahill 8y ago
    /r/outside
  - TomMarius 8y ago
    The real physical universe doesn't offer tooling for playing with advanced math, though.
    - dllthomas 8y ago
      Sure it does, it just takes some work to unlock it.
    - JadeNB 8y ago
      > The real physical universe doesn't offer tooling for playing with advanced math, though. The real physical universe is nothing but tooling for playing with advanced math (but it's not always easy to figure out what the advanced math is, or how best to play with it).
      - TomMarius 8y ago
        IMHO that's like saying higher level programming languages than assembly are unnecessary. Or that a debugger is useless. And not just the learning purposes. Imagine the possibilities if we could properly simulate (and speed up the simulation) the world - what if we could use genetic algorithms to develop an organism.
        dllthomas 8y ago
        https://qntm.org/responsibility https://qntm.org/responsibility
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justaguyhere 8y ago
yup, super fun. Would be even more awesome if there was explanation of the process as the numbers are being found, might be more accessible than reading the paper. I wish there was a list of sites like these - learning for the pure joy of learning, with no other expectations.
srtjstjsj 8y ago
from the website: Newcastle University: I'm e-learning officer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Most of my job involves writing the maths e-assessment system, Numbas. https://www.numbas.org.uk/ https://www.numbas.org.uk/

Wonderful wonderful website. What happends to quirky people like this when they leave university and enter the industry?

by tw1010 8y ago

Wonderful wonderful website. What happends to quirky people like this when they leave university and enter the industry?

Aardwolf 8y ago

Hmm, didn't find it that wonderful, would prefer something that looks more neutral on my screen

tlamponi 8y ago
he was sarcastic...
- sp332 8y ago
  I don't think it was sarcasm but they were making the same point. It's whimsical and excited and uncool. This will get you cachet among mathematicians though :)
  - rectang 8y ago
    Fortunately I don't have to go back and use this website time after time, which would get annoying. But as a one-shot, I love it!
    - princekolt 8y ago
      Exactly. This is effectively a hotsite for their proof.
- tw1010 8y ago
  I wasn't sarcastic.

nmg 8y ago

Is there such a thing as "interactive nonfiction"? Because if not, there should be. Design educational websites this way and watch children learn.

dragonwriter 8y ago
> Is there such a thing as "interactive nonfiction"? The real physical Universe is interactive nonfiction.
- nathancahill 8y ago
  /r/outside
- TomMarius 8y ago
  The real physical universe doesn't offer tooling for playing with advanced math, though.
  - dllthomas 8y ago
    Sure it does, it just takes some work to unlock it.
  - JadeNB 8y ago
    > The real physical universe doesn't offer tooling for playing with advanced math, though. The real physical universe is nothing but tooling for playing with advanced math (but it's not always easy to figure out what the advanced math is, or how best to play with it).
    - TomMarius 8y ago
      IMHO that's like saying higher level programming languages than assembly are unnecessary. Or that a debugger is useless. And not just the learning purposes. Imagine the possibilities if we could properly simulate (and speed up the simulation) the world - what if we could use genetic algorithms to develop an organism.
      - dllthomas 8y ago
        https://qntm.org/responsibility https://qntm.org/responsibility

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justaguyhere 8y ago

yup, super fun. Would be even more awesome if there was explanation of the process as the numbers are being found, might be more accessible than reading the paper. I wish there was a list of sites like these - learning for the pure joy of learning, with no other expectations.

srtjstjsj 8y ago

from the website: Newcastle University: I'm e-learning officer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Most of my job involves writing the maths e-assessment system, Numbas. https://www.numbas.org.uk/ https://www.numbas.org.uk/