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hackandthink

2,268karma·1,108submissions·October 2, 2022
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Hilbert's optimism (we will know) was not a given in the 1930s. What can we make of this almost 100 years later? On the one hand, mathematics and science are incredibly successful. On the other h…
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I do not know anything about the Langlands program. But I see a lot of categories and functors, so I guess they use, speak and think Category Theory.
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"Updating (or conditioning, belief revision or inference) is one of the most fascinating topics of probability theory."
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This is an excellent text to understand mathematical structuralism. But it feels anticlimactic. At the beginning there are fundamental problems with mathematical equality. In the end, there is no grea…
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I expected Gaussian processes. Can someone relate this to Gaussian processes?
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Aristotle was the smartest guy around. Yes he got almost everything wrong but it took many centuries to find better theories. Carlo Rovelli: "Aristotle's Physics: a Physicist's Look&qu…
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It's about Milnor’s conjecture.
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The author should join the cult of Mnemosyne. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemosyne
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What are the limits of a generic implementation? The individual object calculi are already complicated, when does the meta-logic reach its limits?
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"As of March 2024, 6.9% of U.S. adults — 17.8 million people — have long Covid, a multisystem illness that sometimes appears after bouts of Covid-19"
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The crimes of Verfassungsschutz are serious (like giving weapons to Nazi terrorists) but many germans and german media love their secret police.
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