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by nyc111 2y ago
""People, when they perform a behavior a lot — especially in the same environment, same sort of physical setting — outsource the control of the behavior to the environment," Neal says." This seems correct. Our mind goes
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by nyc111 2y ago
This is fascinating, I really enjoyed it. I found it crazy too. All the fine details done with wood. For some reason, the video also reminded me of the blind watchmaker parable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Wa
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by nyc111 2y ago
"According to Physics Central, 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + … only equals -1/12 because the mathematicians redefined the equal sign." Strange. The equal sign is already loaded. It can can be used to indicate equality, proportionality, ide
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by nyc111 2y ago
"This is because the watch is way more complex. Similarly, the highly complex structures of plants and animals must have been created by an intelligent maker rather than the forces of nature. Hence: God." "Hence: God" do
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by nyc111 2y ago
Classic site but I noticed this claim about Euclid's proof of infinitude of primes which is always disputed: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Prime_numbe... This is one of the first proofs known w
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Just Intonation(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nyc111 2y ago
He is talking about physicists’ “bad habit” of reifying abstract mathematical concepts, like spacetime. I’m surprised that a physicist is pointing this out.
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Conway's IRIS and the windscreen wiper theorem(youtube.com)
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by nyc111 2y ago
I liked the coding font. Anyone know its name?
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by nyc111 2y ago
Given the difficulty of keeping a straight line course over the Atlantic without any visible landmarks, these birds must have an incredible sense of direction. Also there must be some ancestral memory of their destination passed from their
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Migration of Bar-Tailed Godwit(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nyc111 2y ago
It may be misleading to look at only to the design of the feather. Flight and such a long and sustained flight can only happen because of the sophisticated programming. Evolution must be a great programmer too.
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by nyc111 3y ago
The article is about how higgs field gives mass to particles. This process is so complicated that in order to explain it to laymen physicisits developed a “spherical cow” method. Prof. Strassler thinks this explanation (he calls it a “phib”
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Why the Higgs Field Is Nothing Like Molasses, Soup, or a Crowd(profmattstrassler.com)
68 points by nyc111 3y ago|68 comments
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Is there a way to publish my emacs org-mode outline interactive like this page?
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by nyc111 3y ago
“As we build theory we adhere to the following basic rules: […] (5) every statement explicitly states all of its assumptions…” This is great, but is it possible?
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by nyc111 3y ago
The title says “A wikipedia of algebraic geometry” but the site is organized more like a book not like Wikipedia. Do we know what publishing platform he is using?
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An artist's perplexing tribute to the Pythagorean Theorem (2009)(mathtourist.blogspot.com)
81 points by nyc111 3y ago|90 comments
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by nyc111 3y ago
There is a section at the end "How did we figure all this stuff out?". Really amazing. And the scale invariance of nature is clearly visible here. The cell is "small" compared to human scale but it is as complicated as a
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by nyc111 3y ago
In the NewScientist interview he said, I tried “to understand really well the simple things.”
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Interesting Number Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nyc111 3y ago
The writer is considering the subject as a physicist might. Euclid’s figures are ideal objects, they don’t have errors. It’s assumed that your construction is an approximation. Euclid might have drawn his figures on sand with lots of “error
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How Euler Did It, by Ed Sandifer(eulerarchive.maa.org)
205 points by nyc111 3y ago|103 comments
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by nyc111 3y ago
Main page of his opinions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39056900
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Let us move to Algorithmic, Inductive, Experimental, approach to mathematics(sites.math.rutgers.edu)
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ZetaGrid(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nyc111 3y ago
Those phones contain all the knowledge the school pretends to teach the students. Techers are worried because they see telephones as competition. This would be a nice experiment: Divide the students into two groups and let one group come to
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by nyc111 3y ago
I’m not sure about his insistence on teaching comme rule in class. I don’t think knowing comma rule is fundamental. And anyone who wants to learn grammar can look it up. The information is freely available online. But I agree that education
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by nyc111 3y ago
I think the article is more about professional mathematicians communicating among themselves, not teaching in a classroom.
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by nyc111 3y ago
Probably they mean we cannot prove . A real time trap...

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