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American Dragnet – Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century(americandragnet.org)
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Understanding Mathematics: A Study Guide(math.utah.edu)
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by mjreacher 4y ago
As others have noted, this isn't unique to the current times. And as someone who only recently finished being a teenager, I think the issue is primarily social media, especially for girls. The reason is because social media is communic
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by mjreacher 4y ago
This is funny to me because as someone who has gone through some of his differential geometry & topology books, they're actually quite good. Another example of being excellent in one area yet lacking in others (perhaps overconfiden
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by mjreacher 4y ago
As the other poster noted, for a big math result this is comparatively rather short. For a concrete example[0], a recent important result related to the Arnold conjecture is 268 pages long, with another 100 pages in appendices. [0]: https:
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by mjreacher 4y ago
Exactly, Quanta would have the experts they interview go over the paper first if they didn't already go over it before and evaluate it before making any comments. Plus arXiv papers are freely accessible ;)
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by mjreacher 5y ago
Agreed. I would be wary of reaching fundamental limits set by physics although I don't think we're there yet. "It would appear that we have reached the limits of what is possible to achieve with computer technology, although
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by mjreacher 5y ago
More emphasis on videos and interviews. While it's still possible to dismiss them as also being set up it's a lot easier to dismiss news articles and text interviews as fakes with no physical proof behind them. In general more thi
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The Future of Democracy in the Middle East: Islamist and Illiberal(theatlantic.com)
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What is mathematical thinking? (2012)(devlinsangle.blogspot.com)
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by mjreacher 5y ago
Well yes, in capitalist countries generally rich people can get away with a lot of things others can't, in fact you can broaden that to any country or organization really. I'm well aware of what went on with Epstein, and if anythi
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by mjreacher 5y ago
While it is plausible for any of those agencies to spy on the domestic population, and it may definitely be possible that some of them need to be combined or removed, you must realize that any country will have such agencies as they have im
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by mjreacher 5y ago
There's plenty of sex related scandals that go on all the time that are 'open secrets' so to speak, another famous one being Harvey Weinstein. On one hand you can go in the conspiracy direction and say everyone was colluding
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Bits are not a bug. – Aaron Swartz(web.archive.org)
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‘Socialism for the rich’: the evils of bad economics (2019)(theguardian.com)
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The western elite is preventing us from going after the assets of Russia’s rich(theguardian.com)
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The declining labor force–New job seekers aren't offsetting the retiring Boomers(fredblog.stlouisfed.org)
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The False Promise of Arming Insurgents: US' Spotty Record Warrants Caution in UA(foreignaffairs.com)
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Mathematics on a Distant Planet – Richard Hamming (1998) [pdf](gwern.net)
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by mjreacher 5y ago
For your first claim I think you'll find what von Neumann claimed is a lot more limited than you think, and even then what exactly was interpreted is still up for debate, see from last year: https://arxiv.org/abs/2
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by mjreacher 5y ago
I agree, all the easy problems are solved so only hard ones are left, but the issue of widespread knowledge doesn't seem to be as important to me. The difficulty in a lot of fields is not for example picking up undergraduate knowledge
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by mjreacher 5y ago
Yes they were screwed and lots of people did die unnecessarily. However, Saudi Arabia wants nukes, Shinzo Abe (ex Japan PM) said Japan should get nukes, the future of the long term program of Iran is still unsettled. Apartheid South Africa
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by mjreacher 5y ago
Well if you can solve problems of functional analysis or linear programming while at a party with others I must congratulate you, you're probably half way there lol
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by mjreacher 5y ago
Possibly, funnily enough his daughter mentions in her book that in hindsight one of the first signs of cancer was that he started sleeping for 7 or 8 hours a day!
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by mjreacher 5y ago
I believe the reason can be genetic https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-id...
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by mjreacher 5y ago
Wigner himself said the only genius amongst The Martians was von Neumann so he at least thought von Neumann was special compared to the others. For your example a mathematician who would fit better would be Norbert Wiener, who was taught fr
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by mjreacher 5y ago
In terms of deep contributions to a variety of mathematical science type fields, probably no one. People might say Terence Tao, and of course no offense to him he is extraordinary smart and widely knowledged, but in my opinion he hasn'
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by mjreacher 5y ago
There's plenty of academic literature on the topic, available through everyone's favorite scholarly website if not available to you otherwise. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/1-4020-4040-7_11
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by mjreacher 5y ago
His quote was only relevant to preventing other nations from obtaining nuclear weapons. While for now nuclear peace still exists it still remains to be seen in the long term, especially as more and more nations think of developing nuclear w
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by mjreacher 5y ago
Unfortunately there has been lack of academic literature on this too on how he was able to solve problems so quickly. Much of what is known can only gathered from anecdotes from those who knew him personally. Edward Teller said in an interv

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