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Can We Survive Technology? – John von Neumann (1955)(privatdozent.co)
4 points by jorgenveisdal 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jorgenveisdal 8mo ago
As an associate professor who spends a ridiculous amount of time preparing for lectures, I would love to try this in one of my courses
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by jorgenveisdal 1y ago
A lot of "mature" American software is garbage as well. Epic Systems has (thus far) been a disaster in the UK, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland and Norway.
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by jorgenveisdal 1y ago
For all those (like me) who still believed in the spirit of Steve (via Jony Ive). We were wrong. He's about the money like the rest of em.
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by jorgenveisdal 2y ago
Love this!
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by jorgenveisdal 3y ago
Economies of scale in production and demand isn't a moat?
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When Feynman met Dirac (1946)(privatdozent.co)
2 points by jorgenveisdal 4y ago|0 comments
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Gödel's solution to Einstein's field equations (2021)(privatdozent.co)
85 points by jorgenveisdal 4y ago|51 comments
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The Mathematical Center of the Universe (2021)(privatdozent.co)
88 points by jorgenveisdal 4y ago|11 comments
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Poxi: A Modern GeoCities(poxi.page)
15 points by jorgenveisdal 4y ago|8 comments
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by jorgenveisdal 5y ago
Hard to explain. I guess it's a Norway-Sweden thing
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by jorgenveisdal 5y ago
Met the CEO when he was VP of Supply Chain at Tesla. Super humble, super Swedish, very bright. This will be huge.
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by jorgenveisdal 5y ago
How does Abel’s level of fame 200 years later matter?
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by jorgenveisdal 5y ago
How to study mathematics, according to Niels Henrik Abel's high school teacher: 1. Never study more than one book at a time and never abandon a book you have chosen without working all the way through it 2. If you face difficulties, do
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The Mozart of Mathematics, Niels Henrik Abel(cantorsparadise.com)
3 points by jorgenveisdal 5y ago|0 comments
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by jorgenveisdal 5y ago
Designed to fit in one half of your briefcase!
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by jorgenveisdal 5y ago
I wrote about this a while back: https://medium.com/blue-poles/how-amazon-screws-third-party-...
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by jorgenveisdal 5y ago
Nop.
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by jorgenveisdal 5y ago
I always liked October CMS. Very structured. Too bad.
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Uncomputable Numbers(cantorsparadise.com)
29 points by jorgenveisdal 5y ago|12 comments
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by jorgenveisdal 5y ago
Sylvia Nasar's take on John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s type: "He was a mathematician who viewed mathematics not as a grand scheme, but as a collection of challenging problems. In the taxonomy of mathematicians, there are problem solv
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by jorgenveisdal 5y ago
Very Kasparov. No doubt very half-baked, and very self-promotional
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The Math Problems from Good Will Hunting, with Solutions (2019)(cantorsparadise.com)
3 points by jorgenveisdal 5y ago|0 comments
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The Mathematics of Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber)(cantorsparadise.com)
5 points by jorgenveisdal 5y ago|0 comments
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by jorgenveisdal 5y ago
Source?
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The Duties of John von Neumann’s Assistant in the 1930s (2020)(cantorsparadise.com)
103 points by jorgenveisdal 5y ago|60 comments
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by jorgenveisdal 5y ago
His son Oswald was a mathematicisn and one of the founders of the Institute for Advanced Study
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The Black-Scholes formula, explained (2019)(cantorsparadise.com)
93 points by jorgenveisdal 5y ago|63 comments
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by jorgenveisdal 5y ago
Hi Mark. My name is Jørgen Veisdal, I wrote the essay. I’d love to interview your dad for a book project I am doing. Any chance he might be available for something like that?
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by jorgenveisdal 6y ago
Wouldn’t be the first. Bob Dylan, Winston Churchill, Barack Obama etc

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