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by mjreacher 4y ago
There's mixed scientific consensus on the full impact of nuclear winter. This paper shows evidence that it would be really bad (in the sense of several billion dead).
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by mjreacher 4y ago
No and this post will hopefully be flagged soon. A quick Google search of the author would also show that they have published several similar proofs before [0] which were also wrong. [0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.1254
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China overtakes the US in scientific research output(theguardian.com)
2 points by mjreacher 4y ago|2 comments
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Contemplation can help problem-solving and boost creativity, study claims(theguardian.com)
2 points by mjreacher 4y ago|0 comments
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by mjreacher 4y ago
I myself only saw this video quite recently and like many in the YouTube comments my first thought was, "What has changed in the way we teach things that this video looks so refreshingly simple?" The first thing that comes to mind
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by mjreacher 4y ago
I agree with Dyson that the main difference between 'birds' and 'frogs' is that while frogs tend to focus on their particular domain solving problems, birds try to find and bring in connections between areas which can op
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Apple should scan iPhones for child abuse images, says scanning tech inventor(theguardian.com)
8 points by mjreacher 4y ago|3 comments
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Pacifism and the War(orwell.ru)
1 points by mjreacher 4y ago|0 comments
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by mjreacher 4y ago
This question was posted on the math subreddit a few days ago and got a bunch of responses, the most popular of which are already here but a whole bunch that aren't: https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments&#x2F
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Why Books Don't Work: Constructivism over Transmissionism(masterhowtolearn.com)
31 points by mjreacher 4y ago|23 comments
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by mjreacher 4y ago
Similar sentiments of controlling the weather/climate were expressed in the USA too, although they never went anywhere: http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/von_Neumann_1955.pdf (see page 8 of the pdf)
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by mjreacher 4y ago
Large extended families used the best option they had before Facebook. Now they have Facebook, they use Facebook, because it's the best, most useful option for the vast majority of them. This thread is full of people saying that if peo
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by mjreacher 4y ago
The first link I mentioned says in 2017 the conviction rate of crimes referred to the Justice Dept. by the FBI was 47%. Of course I am guessing the differences here are definitional, regardless the stat was just used as a broad proxy for ho
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by mjreacher 4y ago
I'm not sure if this is 100% serious but if it is, how could the FBI having a backdoor into every messaging app fit in with the relative ineffectiveness of the FBI?[0] If they truly did have the ability to spy on any messaging app with
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by mjreacher 4y ago
Yes definitely, but I feel that the mindset is to make a lasting contributions, something significant enough that it would remain important even one hundred years into the future. For example von Neumann had incredible respect for Kurt Göde
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by mjreacher 4y ago
I would like to add a comment for a perspective that's a little different to some of the others here. I'm sure many of you here are familiar with John von Neumann. He died in 1957 at the age of 53. Throughout his life he was a bus
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by mjreacher 4y ago
>So maybe what we need is the right breakthrough in math? Funny you mention that, only recently I was reading a review paper on the state of constructive quantum field theory [0]. In the outlook section the author writes >Why haven’t
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by mjreacher 4y ago
I'm glad Tom was so open about his lack of knowledge here, so often it is easy to assume any professional mathematician should know all this things and it all comes easy to them. However this obviously isn't the case and I doubt t
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Stokes' Theorem on Manifolds [video](youtube.com)
1 points by mjreacher 4y ago|0 comments
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by mjreacher 4y ago
In case it hadn't been noticed to some readers, this is actually a book and clicking on the "Contents" button reveals a table of contents.
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Russia restricts export of Noble gases used by Western and Asian microchip firms(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
5 points by mjreacher 4y ago|3 comments
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by mjreacher 4y ago
Based on my own experience running forums that aggregate content I have tended to find that a specific group of people vote on content based on what they like and think looks interesting rather than having a situation where people only vote
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by mjreacher 4y ago
I'm always surprised to see higher level mathematics on the front page here considering I doubt the majority of the people upvoting this would understand much of it, nevertheless given the state of how the average person views mathemat
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by mjreacher 4y ago
Has there been much scientific research into how much improvement you can get through beeline or other similar tools like bionic reading?
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by mjreacher 4y ago
I think you'll find many mathematicians agree with it. For example, The Abel Prize [1] does interviews with their award winners every year and quite often they are asked about this question, and most of them agree that as a mathematici
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The Quest for Fusion Energy(inference-review.com)
2 points by mjreacher 4y ago|0 comments
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by mjreacher 4y ago
He also did an interview for the Web of Stories project which is available on YouTube and has his thoughts on his life and various other curious topics. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzeNLngr1Jq...
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by mjreacher 4y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned micropayment functionality inside say WeChat for example.
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by mjreacher 4y ago
There's nothing wrong with it per se, it's just in my view the money could be better spent. If a university needs a new building it will get built regardless. In contrast, I know graduate students living off ramen and suffering be
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by mjreacher 4y ago
His foundation, the Simons Foundation, funds among a few other things, arXiv. I have wondered why other tech related billionaires do not sponsor more items in the scientific sphere like Simons does, because unlike funding a building at some

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