kurtis_reed

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by kurtis_reed 6d ago
Pure math has been overvalued for a long time. Now that we don't need humans for it, it's really time for pure mathematicians to pack it in.
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by kurtis_reed 8d ago
"Warren"? You know him personally?
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by kurtis_reed 8d ago
Robbery implies taking it away from you so you can't have it anymore. How is that the case?
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by kurtis_reed 8d ago
If solving a problem is "purely" theoretical it's of no use outside the math community's enjoyment. Otherwise it's not purely theoretical. > none of the millennium problems have anything to do with a "real&q
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by kurtis_reed 8d ago
> this is ABSOLUTELY not how actual mathematicians see their field Yeah and they should start seeing it differently
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by kurtis_reed 8d ago
Whatever justification for lamplighters existed before exists now?
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by kurtis_reed 11d ago
Congratulations on your opinion?
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by kurtis_reed 14d ago
Indeed. As Nassim Taleb says, "Something bad for the (existing) class of mathematicians as they lose their privilege, but not necessarily bad for mathematics & our body of knowledge?" https://xcancel.com/nntale
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by kurtis_reed 15d ago
> the vast majority of the locals hated the protests and didn't support them Totally false
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by kurtis_reed 15d ago
People have been saying we've been "at peak hype-cycle" for years
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by kurtis_reed 17d ago
A better alternative is just to make all your work open and public, then everyone can see what you should get credit for.
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by kurtis_reed 17d ago
> it convinces decision makers that human mathematicians are obsolete, and it convinces young people that their passion for mathematics has no future Maybe those things are true, so maybe they should be convinced?
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by kurtis_reed 18d ago
Tao seems to be stuck in a pure-math-for-the-benefit-of-pure-mathematicians mindset. The rest of us care about applications of math, not math itself.
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by kurtis_reed 18d ago
Plenty of new open problems will come from applications, and applications are what actually matters. Pure mathematicians are wrapped up in math for the sake of math which is a fun academic game but not something the rest of us should care a
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by kurtis_reed 28d ago
People don't use SQL because it's a good language
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by kurtis_reed 1mo ago
You mean "benchmarked"?
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by kurtis_reed 1mo ago
How is it different from https://github.com/github/spec-kit ?
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by kurtis_reed 2mo ago
Multiplayer? It's a game?
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by kurtis_reed 2mo ago
"multiplayer"? Is this a game? I honestly don't know what that means in this context.
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by kurtis_reed 2mo ago
Dark night for mathematicians' careers maybe but not for mathematics at all.
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by kurtis_reed 2mo ago
English doesn't do quotation marks like that
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by kurtis_reed 3mo ago
Actually, it's "either the word 'whom' or when to use it". I guess you should learn actual English.
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by kurtis_reed 3mo ago
Imagine someone wrote a blog in some obscure language that few people speak. If you happen to know that language, you'd think wow this is great. If you don't happen to know that language, you'd just think it's a shame. T
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by kurtis_reed 3mo ago
You could just use the US terms, then you wouldn't have to learn both.
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by kurtis_reed 3mo ago
"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own."
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by kurtis_reed 3mo ago
Think of it as learning a second language. It should be a lot easier for you than most people.
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by kurtis_reed 3mo ago
The French didn't like it when the Lingua Franca switched from French to English and the Brits still whine that British English is no longer the dominant variety. It's a trade-off: you can write in your regional dialect or you can
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by kurtis_reed 4mo ago
People buy Apple products for the same reason people buy BMWs
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by kurtis_reed 4mo ago
There are many laptops with similar specs that you can run Linux on, and for less money
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by kurtis_reed 4mo ago
I tried Vivaldi a couple of years ago and it was slow as fuck

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