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Collaborative encyclopedia writing with anonymous people on the internet turned out a lot better than expected in most cases, but writing correct and coherent m
by mateo1 4y ago
Collaborative encyclopedia writing with anonymous people on the internet turned out a lot better than expected in most cases, but writing correct and coherent mathematical proofs is not one of it's areas of success.
- krastanov 4y agoI have not explored the English Wikipedia math proofs, but the ones on the French Wikipedia are absolutely outstanding.
- mateo1 4y agoIt could be because they are written by a single person and not edited often.
- SemanticStrengh 4y agoHi, sorry to hijack your comment but I saw in your description that you are a researcher in quantum computing. Slightly out of domain but I was wondering what you think about this cannonical quantization of gravity https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=31290590&goto=threads%3Fid%3DSemanticStrengh%2331290590 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=31290590&goto=threads%... Feel free to ignore