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Fields-Winning Mathematician Heisuke Hironaka Dies at 94

nippon.com
4 points·by pfortuny·vor 4 Monaten·2 comments

Heisuke Hironaka Has Died

japannews.yomiuri.co.jp
41 points·by pfortuny·vor 4 Monaten·5 comments

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pfortuny
·vor 17 Stunden·discuss
That summurizes it pretty well. The Commission is essentially omnipotent, and there is no relevat judiciary to stop it.

This is farcical.

Yes, from a PURELY MONETARY viewpoint, Brexit was a disaster. But there are more important things than money.

I'm from Spain btw.
pfortuny
·gestern·discuss
The first thought when moving people must be "where/how will they shit?" Only once this is solved can you ask "what will they eat?".
pfortuny
·vor 4 Tagen·discuss
This is not even dumb. Unbelievable coming from act....
pfortuny
·vor 8 Tagen·discuss
I would call it "Engineered (as machine-made trustworthy) Mathematics": you have results but nobody undrstands them but they were not produced by humans.

Despite that, people use them. In that sense, similar to the Finite Elements method. But the tools (statements) are machined like any other tool (screwdriver).

Similar to microprocessors in your example. But about statements.
pfortuny
·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
Well, by "understanding" I mean "understanding by humans", indeed.
pfortuny
·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
Science is not about results, it is about the transmission of knowledge. So long as those AI-"sciences" are just inside AI, they are "engineering", not science.

I am not dismissing engineering (it moves the world we live in), just trying to clarify what science is.

Applied fluid dynamics works like that: noone has ever really "verified" that the finite-element method applied to some specific model does converge
pfortuny
·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
Wow, I did not know this and -despite its drawbacks, like not being able to install apps from the Apple App store- this seems like a great way to have a powerful dumb-phone.
pfortuny
·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
Notice that the space rule is not so in Spanish (the RAE ---the Spanish Royal Academy--- states in its rules that it must be separated from the main text on both sides but not from the explanation).

https://www.rae.es/ortograf%C3%ADa-b%C3%A1sica/uso-de-los-si...
pfortuny
·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
Well, actually I am worried about it. It needs to happen just once. Or for google to have a different kind of CEO (as companies are wont to).
pfortuny
·vor 15 Tagen·discuss
You arw right.

But precisely that fact made life much less stressful than today: it was normal to be poor, it was normal to die young.
pfortuny
·vor 15 Tagen·discuss
You are right. But there is also the stress for the low and middle class and there horrible conditions of the poorest countries.

Not so sunshiny when you think about the millions of people struggling to have a meal each day.
pfortuny
·vor 18 Tagen·discuss
That is in part why corporate taxes exist.
pfortuny
·vor 20 Tagen·discuss
It is so weird that it makes 40% sense of 50% its length.
pfortuny
·vor 20 Tagen·discuss
So clear! Thanks!!
pfortuny
·vor 25 Tagen·discuss
On your first paragraph: exactly. This is not a competition, Emacs is just shared software, not part of a market.
pfortuny
·vor 29 Tagen·discuss
Mathematics is a language for humans, not just for machines. We may agree to let machines "do their thing" for as long as they want but to what purpose? Just creating "results"? What is a mathematical result by itself?

Unless, of course, we are willing to give machines the responsibility of building bridges. Subject on which I do not have a clear opinion yet.

But just hard drives (or whatever) filled with bytes representing strings representing nothing any human will ever understand... I am not for it (as of now). There are much more important problems to solve.
pfortuny
·vor 29 Tagen·discuss
No, I am not saying he has sold out: but he has the money and the contacts to see the insider-only version.

Just that. Tell my Uni to pay me 200€/month for tokens. They are just going to laugh it out.
pfortuny
·vor 29 Tagen·discuss
Ah but you can disable it completely.
pfortuny
·vor 29 Tagen·discuss
"Beauty" is something I cannot define. "Elegance", as I use it, is the use of tools as precisely as possible. It is a technical term, whereas "beauty" I cannot define.

Of course, that is my view of it.
pfortuny
·vor 29 Tagen·discuss
I do not know about this but, to be honest, he (or his Dpt, or whatever) has the money and connections to try the hidden-behind-closed-doors stuff.

We mere mortals (I am a prof. of Maths at Uni) do not.