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by joaorico 10y ago
I like these two quotes of Knuth where he lets us know how hard he worked. -- From this other small interview [1]: "When I'm working on a research problem I generally begin by filling dozens of sheets of scratch paper with partial
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by joaorico 10y ago
This reminds me of a boardgame, played with 8 queens on a chess board, that was part of the National Mathematical Games Championship when I was in high school (in Portugal). It's called Game of the Amazons [1], and each player owns 4 q
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by joaorico 10y ago
Jonathan Rees has a "really interesting response" where he lists several of definitions of OO [0]: "Here is an a la carte menu of features or properties that are related to these terms; I have heard OO defined to be many diff
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by joaorico 10y ago
From the same Foreword: "A modern-day Montessori might propose, if convinced by my story, to create a gear set for children. Thus every child might have the experience I had. But to hope for this would be to miss the essence of the sto
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by joaorico 10y ago
"The fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. If you can't, anything can be painfully difficult." [0] Although Papert is most known for Logo, he did not believe
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The History of Mr. Papert(stager.org)
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Marvin Minsky: Papert's Principle (1998)(papert.org)
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Seymour Papert, Paulo Freire: The Future of School (1990)(papert.org)
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How to compare global problems in terms of potential for impact(80000hours.org)
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by joaorico 10y ago
Smolin actually singles out Markopoulou as one of the great modern Seers (in the same chapter): "It is easy to list those whose thinking has led to papers and even books addressing foundational issues: Roger Penrose is perhaps the best
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by joaorico 10y ago
I'm using Smolin's terminology because he was defending Seers in his book, is Markopoulos' ex-husband and colleague, and a central piece at the Perimeter. From his book, cited above (the whole chapter is very much worth readi
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by joaorico 10y ago
To use Lee Smolin's (her ex-husband) terminology [1], she was clearly a Seer, not a Crafstperson. The Seers-Craftspeople problem is not unlike the innovator's dilemma and the big-corp/startup. The Perimeter, of all places, wa
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[Legg, Hutter] a Collection of Definitions of Intelligence (2007)(arxiv.org)
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Understanding Understanding Mathematics (1978) [pdf](onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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by joaorico 10y ago
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_Sigma_Problem
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The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as Tutoring (1984) [pdf](web.mit.edu)
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by joaorico 10y ago
I agree and share the same doubts. While it doesn't address the proof you mentioned, the author writes this paragraph concerning studies which could be clues and/or are interesting studies on their own for education in general: &
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Why boarding schools produce bad leaders(theguardian.com)
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by joaorico 10y ago
Some additions to this profile: Scholze won 3 gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad [1], refused the Milner and Zuckerberg's Millenium Prize (without justification, afaik) [2], answers once in a while on mathoverflow [
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by joaorico 10y ago
For me the most interesting bit was Scott's "10 second" hypothetical reply to the reporter/general audience on what quantum computing is (found in one of his comments): "I say something about how a QC is a proposed
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How Long Before Superintelligence? (1997)(nickbostrom.com)
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Marvin Minsky: Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence (1961) [pdf](worrydream.com)
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Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008)(web.media.mit.edu)
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Marvin Minsky: Education and Psychology (2009)(web.media.mit.edu)
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by joaorico 11y ago
Yes, this is precisely the point the author of the article makes in the comments: "coca: That’s actually a good point. Radix sort is analogous to what people have done with linear algebra. For dense matrices, you’re essentially stuck w
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Paradox at the heart of mathematics makes physics problem unanswerable(nature.com)
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by joaorico 11y ago
Here's two plots [1] which show vividly the effect mentioned in the article [0]. Might even be the chart mentioned in the first paragraph. http://imgur.com/wD4XFvD [0] 7th comment [edit: actually still waiting approval
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by joaorico 11y ago
Robert Frost himself wrote about this intentional light mocking [0]: "I suppose I was gently teasing them." [1] "but about a friend who had gone off to war, a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn't
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by joaorico 11y ago
I like this summary of the evidence that most published research is false[1]: -"One of the hottest topics in science has two main conclusions: Most published research is false There is a reproducibility crisis in science The
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by joaorico 11y ago
Daniel Kahneman's and Gary Klein's (two of the experts usually seen on opposing sides of the conversation) article "A Failure to Disagree" is worth a read [1]: "This article reports on an effort to explore the diffe

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