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Doubts about teapot supremacy: my reply to Richard Borcherds
- strikelaserclaw 6y agoI don't have anything intelligent to say about this article but damn, i find it surprising that Richard Borchards is a prolific youtuber.
- taliesinb 6y agoI've been learning representation theory (among other topics) from his Youtube lectures! They're a real treasure trove. And he's got a dry sense of humor that I quite like. I can also recommend this interview with him by Curt Jaimungal, which is filled with his insights and opinions about his practice of mathematics, and his life as a mathematician: https://youtu.be/xu15ZbxxnUQ https://youtu.be/xu15ZbxxnUQ
- queuebert 6y agoHis math lectures have renewed my love of the subject that I had lost in poorly taught undergraduate classes.
- klyrs 6y agoProtip: value village has hoards of teapots for cheap
- AbrahamParangi 6y agoUnrelated, but the image of Scott Aaronson playing with teapots with his children brings me great joy. I suspect that Covid has increased my appreciation for domesticity, I wonder if this is a common trend? Cursory googling suggests that Covid has been bad for family formation but I’ve heard anecdotally that “everyone is getting married.”
- woopwoop 6y agoI don't find this compelling at all. I'm not in the least convinced that there is a way for a classical computer to determine how many pieces a dropped teapot will break into given an arbitrarily detailed description of it's structure. Handwaving about wind tunnels does nothing to assuage my doubts.
- a1369209993 6y agoOn the other hand, I'm not in the least convinced that there is a way for a teapot to determine how many pieces a (specified, in-general-different) dropped teapot will break into given an arbitrarily detailed description of it's structure.
- andrewflnr 6y agoYep, IIUC you have to include the whole custom teapot manufacturing infrastructure in your "teapot" simulator to get a fully equivalent system, or rather to claim to be attempting to solve the same problem.