Rodion Déev

и шкафы с чертежами грузили на плот // postdoc at ULB, ex-postdoc (adiunkt) at IMPAN, Warsaw // main acc: @deevrod

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@nihilunbounded “a science” is in fact a culturally specific notion: in German or Russian, for example, philosophy is considered a science (and therefore so is mathematics). to my taste, it’s the narrow Anglophone notion of “science” which is unnatural

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@nihilunbounded there has never been a better time in history for using the expression “haste makes waste”

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@doomslide are there any modern roofs which were not convincing but considered correct regardless?

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@nihilunbounded it is sickening though that it comes from the people virtually indistinguishable from the “anti-aging” and “life extension” crowd who openly intend to build the Evangelical hell with all the eternal suffering on the Earth

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@nihilunbounded to be fair the understanding of what biology is was indeed constantly evolving, the very word “biology” is merely 200 years old

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@nihilunbounded btw I always found the statement from the title of this piece not even wrong, but a kind of a harmful self-fulfilling guideline. quite the opposite! you cannot do anything meaningful when you’re young! you barely know one or two things at most!

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@rapid_rar2 @nihilunbounded not sure if that’s what OP meant but Alexander Danilovich Alexandrov reportedly used to say something along the lines “the point of modern geometry is return to the Ancient Greeks”, you may look into his books or his students’ (Burago, Krushkal, Zalgaller…)

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@nihilunbounded and ultimately it rolled back in 20th century, nowadays virtually no one would call algebraic geometry the “theory of elliptic functions” or think of Gauss—Manin connection as the hypergeometric equation

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@nihilunbounded even worse with this analogy is that co-ordinates and calculus were never a “tool”, it was a part of an entire new episteme born by the early bourgeois society whose other manifestations were spreadsheets, compound interest, universal grammar, Linnaean taxonomy…

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@torgeirlysen thanks! yeah, I was lucky to find a like-minded supervisor for my current postdoc

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am become this 🤌 close to penning down a piece of an LLM slop

thankfully, the problem is so innocuous and the motivation behind it so schizophrenic that no one is going to scoop it anyway

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@jack_ceroni my current postdoc ends by April and I haven’t yet found a next one :(

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the first (and, sadly, most likely the last) paper written all by myself, the original idea included
https://t.co/XeQlMKpHYF

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@nihilunbounded thanks! hopefully I shall…

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@HdjDd65233682 @nihilunbounded I mean, of course I’m not being honest and cannot but admit that USA has a lot of nice math departments (U. Michigan was lovely when I visited it), but one can as well find such departments in Angers, Duisburg, or Loughborough

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@HdjDd65233682 @nihilunbounded I got my Ph. D. in Courant, the place was essentially a nursing home for Abel prize laureates (Columbia was slightly better but still uninspiring; CUNY had a spark of life but the taste of its researchers was a little bit too acquired to yours faithfully)

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@HdjDd65233682 @nihilunbounded in fact, it’s USA’s contribution to mathematics which is equivalent to that of one US state, since there is barely any math in the USA outside of Massachusetts. it’s also comparable to a mathematical contribution of North Rhine—Westphalia

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@sunstarsys > as von Neumann said

a moron who never proved a beautiful theorem nor created an important theory and is only known for fascistic aurafarming never understood anything, what a surprise

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@nihilunbounded once again a number theorist left everyone numb

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@nihilunbounded rather, we should ask why modern Golem-makers want so desperately their creatures to study Kabbalah instead of them (or everyone else)

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@nihilunbounded I am a kind of a mathematician who shares this sentiment (not everyone does), but framing this through “qabbalism” is not exactly helpful: one of the greatest qabbalists to ever live was Maharal of Prague