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As an associate professor who spends a ridiculous amount of time preparing for lectures, I would love to try this in one of my courses

A lot of "mature" American software is garbage as well. Epic Systems has (thus far) been a disaster in the UK, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland and Norway.

For all those (like me) who still believed in the spirit of Steve (via Jony Ive). We were wrong. He's about the money like the rest of em.

Love this!

Economies of scale in production and demand isn't a moat?

Hard to explain. I guess it's a Norway-Sweden thing

Met the CEO when he was VP of Supply Chain at Tesla. Super humble, super Swedish, very bright. This will be huge.

How does Abel’s level of fame 200 years later matter?

How to study mathematics, according to Niels Henrik Abel's high school teacher: 1. Never study more than one book at a time and never abandon a book you have chosen without working all the way through it 2. If you face difficulties, do not give up but instead go back twenty times if that should prove necessary and only then allow yourself to investigate another mathematician's solution 3. Skip over those parts that are of no challenge in order to get at what is new to you 4. Reflect over the reading, in particularly how the writer came to the solution and moreover, what the solution leads to 5. Investigate whether or not another transformation or substitution would have solved it in a better manner 6. Always read with pen in hand so that you can work out all the calculations and practice all the questions you encounter 7. Write up lists of subjects that afford you an opportunity to develop your own theories 8. Geometric reflections can be a suitable way of strengthening and securing one's judgement

Designed to fit in one half of your briefcase!

I wrote about this a while back: https://medium.com/blue-poles/how-amazon-screws-third-party-...

Nop.

I always liked October CMS. Very structured. Too bad.

Sylvia Nasar's take on John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s type:

"He was a mathematician who viewed mathematics not as a grand scheme, but as a collection of challenging problems. In the taxonomy of mathematicians, there are problem solvers and theoreticians, and, by temperament, Nash belonged to the first group. He was not a game theorist, analyst, algebraist, geometer, topologist, or mathematical physicist. But he zeroed in on areas in these fields where essentially nobody had achieved anything. The thing was to find an interesting question that he could say something about."

Very Kasparov. No doubt very half-baked, and very self-promotional

Source?

His son Oswald was a mathematicisn and one of the founders of the Institute for Advanced Study

Hi Mark. My name is Jørgen Veisdal, I wrote the essay. I’d love to interview your dad for a book project I am doing. Any chance he might be available for something like that?

Wouldn’t be the first. Bob Dylan, Winston Churchill, Barack Obama etc

Check out the podcast ‘Very Bad Wizards’ and their episodes about Borges

My guess is that this will end up the same was as the Microsoft case. Building network effects is not anti-competitive behavior. FB will argue that they are in fierce competition with Google in the market where they make their revenue, advertising. Not really relevant what the relative market concentration is in other non-revenue generating markets (social networking / search), which are only used to generate attention for the ads they sell in a market where FB's relative market power is < 50%.

Just finished and submitted a 295 page Ph.D. dissertation written in LaTex. The only real downside, as I see it, is that «normal» people are used to giving feedback in Word documents.

Absolutely. In lock-step with Bari Weiss

So strange. Published another post about the same topic an hour before you

Such a truly good person

Your question answers itself

Absolutely. Check out my essays on Wiener and Oppenheimer. Many of the same tendencies, though with better outcomes

The archetypal example of the former is Georg Cantor: https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-nature-of-infinity-a...

Thanks a lot! Indeed, high res photos of Grothendieck are quite hard to come by

I'm afraid Kaczynski is probably more famous than most of them among those not interested in mathematics. And he was an assistant professor of mathematics at UCB when he turned, after all.

Gödel's story is certainly a fascinating one. However, he did have a paranoid fear of being poisoned most of his life and weighed 30kg when he died - of malnutrition.