aviwl

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   by aviwl 11y ago

   What factors do you think contribute to the ability of the US to attract the best?
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   by aviwl 11y ago

   By "Jay Scaler" do you mean Jay Chaudhry?
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   by aviwl 11y ago

   As stated in the article, those conjectures were made in 1923. The recent quanta article https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160313-mathematicians-disco... involves a new correlation discovered in the primes, which means that
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   by aviwl 11y ago

   There is no reasonable formula for generating prime numbers. So let's treat primes as if they were empirical data points instead of deterministic mathematical constants. From this lens, the statistical properties of primes are very sim
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   by aviwl 11y ago

   The author is making the following reasoning: Conjecture 1 and Conjecture 2 can not both be true. Conjecture 1 is believed to be true. Therefore Conjecture 2 is false, which implies that there must exist a heavy cluster of primes out there.