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Welcome to the unbearable forced-ness of titles. Everyone's making a nod to Milan Kundera these days.
by pohl 11y ago
Welcome to the unbearable forced-ness of titles. Everyone's making a nod to Milan Kundera these days.
- jsprogrammer 11y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_...
- coldtea 11y agoFirst, it's not a nod to Kundera, but to a classic math related work that predates Kundera's book. Second, even if it was, really? As if we see plays on Kundera titles regularly on the web?
- tim333 11y agoI doubt it's a reference to Kundera. I was thinking that both Eugene Wigner's 1960 article 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences'[0] and Karpathy's 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks' probably touch deep aspects of the nature of existence. The first on why the universe exists and is mathematical - because at the fundamental level it is mathematical[1], and in Karpathy's case the RNNs are probably effective because they are close to the mechanisms of human consciousness. [0] Wigner's article: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html [1] 'physical world is completely mathematical' theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences#Max_Tegmark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_...