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ValentinA23
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ValentinA23
2y ago
The root cause for his departure from mathematics was his categorical refusal to let the military-industrial complex invest in his research at Bures-sur-Yvette. Source: https://www.jp-petit.org/Nouvelles/Grothendieck.ht
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There is nothing esoteric about topos theory, it is a formally defined concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topos Thought it was important to state this, as Grothendieck also wrote rather esoteric texts, Récoltes et
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nothing https://www.livescience.com/49610-scientists-unboil-egg.html
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What you're pointing at mirrors the same kind of limitation in using LLMs for role-play/interactive fictions.
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Quantum computers with write-only memory can outperform classical computers
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I get what you mean. However other comments raised some valid points too. It's just a few hours of works . I think what matters a lot more is when these kind of anticipated features do not add up to constant gains (which in your case,
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There is relationship between the metric system and the French royal system. The units used in this system have a fibonacci-like relationship where unit n = unit n-1 + unit n-2. palm : 7,64 cm span : 12,36 cm handspan : 20 cm
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If I come up with my own measuring unit, let's call it the sneezle (whatever the actual length I assign to it) I will be able to also define a duration unit (say, the snifflebeat) based on the time it takes for a pendulum one sneezle l
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Only because you're using metric seconds instead of "imperial seconds" (the time it takes for a 1 foot long pendulum to complete a full oscillation).
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https://www.ukbiblestudents.co.uk/Great%20Pyramid/chapter%20... >“It was contended," says Dr. Peacock, " by Paucton, in his Mẻtrologie, that the side of the Great Pyramid was the exact 1/500th part of
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A Martian meter defined by martians should relate their average size, the number of fingers they have on their hands and some basic measure of the planet. I mean, one meter is defined as 1/10^7 of the distance between the equator and t
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A bit out of topic, however https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xOGeZt71sg Note: I'm more inclined to think this is a coincidence given that it establishes a link between the most commented text and the the most commented
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Okay so this one has an explanation. But what about these ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_coincidence See also this blog: https://martouf.ch/tag/coudee-royale-egyptienne/ One fre