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Gave me shivers reading it. Beautiful example of the incredible mystery of the human mind. Poof! And the solution materialized. Of course, all the groundwork h
by zaroth 7y ago
Gave me shivers reading it. Beautiful example of the incredible mystery of the human mind.
Poof! And the solution materialized. Of course, all the groundwork had been laid. All the neurons primed. Just incredible.
And that formula. Damn.
- ttul 7y agoThat was my thought. Why is it so damn complex? You’d think the solution would be simpler.
- rozap 7y agoSometimes complicated things are complicated.
- ben_w 7y agoIt is. Some parts are repeated, the one which caught my eye was (zₐ’(rₐ)²+1)
- paulpauper 7y agothe full equation for general relativity would take many pages to print, but Einstein notation makes it much shorter looking. This was not the case here.
- doelie_ 7y agoProbably looks a lot simpler in A-normal form, with intermediates factored out.
- saalweachter 7y agoI mean, if it was simpler it wouldn't have taken 2000 years.
- michaelcampbell 7y agoI don't see the correlation here. Is every equation henceforth discovered guaranteed to be more complex than any before it? I hope not.
- runeks 7y ago> You’d think the solution would be simpler. Why would I think that?
- toomuchtodo 7y agoIsn’t that how most of us are solving complex problems? Building context and then walking away from the desk for a walk, or perhaps while we’re in the shower in the morning or at night, not focused on the problem but our brain working on it in the background until it is brought forward to our consciousness?
- avip 7y agoThere are many similar stories. Famously Tesla's recollection of himself "inventing the inductive motor" while walking in some garden in Hungary, and the discovery of the Benzene ring.
- punnerud 7y agoI often do this when I need a good solution to a problem: Work hard on it for a while, then leave it for one-two days. More often then not this give a way better end result.
- paulpauper 7y agomind-blown by that formula amazing what people think of
- mkl 7y agoIt wasn't thought of, it was calculated using a computer algebra system. Such systems are very powerful, but tend to be fairly bad at writing things nicely and simplifying, so they often produce insanely big and complicated formulas.
- fny 7y agoThat formula is just a Mathematica dump. If you read the paper, which is unfortunately paywalled, you'll see the result is the solution to a complex system of equations, which are far easier to digest than the result you see there.
- mkl 7y agoThis seems to be a version of it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03792 https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03792
- m463 7y ago> Poof! And the solution ...snapped into focus