jorgenveisdal

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   by jorgenveisdal 6y ago

   Such a truly good person
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   Event-Driven Investing(bluepoles.substack.com)

   2 points by jorgenveisdal 6y ago|0 comments
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   Bitcoin's Relationship with the Chinese Yuan(bluepoles.substack.com)

   14 points by jorgenveisdal 6y ago|0 comments
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   Cantor's Diagonal Argument (1891)(medium.com)

   1 points by jorgenveisdal 6y ago|0 comments
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   Richard Feynman’s First Lecture(medium.com)

   1 points by jorgenveisdal 6y ago|0 comments
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   Richard Feynman's First Lecture(medium.com)

   4 points by jorgenveisdal 6y ago|0 comments
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   by jorgenveisdal 6y ago

   Your question answers itself
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   Kurt Gödel's Brilliant Madness(medium.com)

   6 points by jorgenveisdal 6y ago|0 comments
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   Richard Feynman’s Advice to a Young Stephen Wolfram (1985)(medium.com)

   4 points by jorgenveisdal 6y ago|0 comments
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    How Amazon Screws Third-Party Sellers(medium.com)

    3 points by jorgenveisdal 6y ago|0 comments
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    The Duties of John von Neumann’s Assistant in the 1930s(medium.com)

    2 points by jorgenveisdal 6y ago|0 comments
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    Finland, ‘Prepper Nation of the Nordics,’ Isn’t Worried About Masks(nytimes.com)

    3 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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    by jorgenveisdal 7y ago

    Absolutely. Check out my essays on Wiener and Oppenheimer. Many of the same tendencies, though with better outcomes
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    by jorgenveisdal 7y ago

    The archetypal example of the former is Georg Cantor: https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-nature-of-infinity-a...
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    by jorgenveisdal 7y ago

    Thanks a lot! Indeed, high res photos of Grothendieck are quite hard to come by
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    by jorgenveisdal 7y ago

    I'm afraid Kaczynski is probably more famous than most of them among those not interested in mathematics. And he was an assistant professor of mathematics at UCB when he turned, after all. Gödel's story is certainly a fascinating
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    by jorgenveisdal 7y ago

    Galois - shot in duel. Turing - committed suicide by cyanide-laced apple. Boltzmann - committed suicide while on vacation. Gödel - died from starvation and exhaustion. Cantor - died from starvation in an insane asylum. Ramanujan - died
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    The Anarchist Abstractionist – Who Was Alexander Grothendieck?(medium.com)

    141 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|58 comments
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    by jorgenveisdal 7y ago

    Important distinction indeed
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    by jorgenveisdal 7y ago

    From my own brief period of living there in 2011, I was surprised at the number of people in Milan who smoked. Seemed to be at Paris levels, ish
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    Antibiotic Resistance May Be a Key Factor in Italy's Covid-19 Deaths(medium.com)

    8 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|5 comments
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    Survival Bias(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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    The Mathematics of Ted “The Unabomber” Kaczynski(medium.com)

    2 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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    Stories of John von Neumann's Genius(tugojvn.cantorparadise.com)

    5 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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    by jorgenveisdal 7y ago

    Great post! Can relate to a lot of it.
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    by jorgenveisdal 7y ago

    So true
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    Proving Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem(medium.com)

    2 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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    by jorgenveisdal 7y ago

    Thanks Chris.
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    by jorgenveisdal 7y ago

    Hats off!
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    by jorgenveisdal 7y ago

    Take it up with Gödel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯