Mingdong He

PhD in Mathematics @Oxford
Mind over Matter

[Mingdong He @mingdong_he]

正式开启 ETH 访问。

苏黎世不大但是有山有湖，我从小就爱能够看得见山的城市。数学系在主楼，位于山上，出门便可俯瞰整个城市，心旷神怡，不知不觉自己做研究的状态也变好了。

[Lei Li @_TobiasLee]

paper 投稿量指数级上升意味着其价值也会加速级贬值
会从 plus 变成 must，边际效用更快递减
什么是新范式下更为宝贵的经历？
目前来看比较宝贵的是: 高影响力的工作（blog, tweet, github project） / 高质量的实习经历 / 还有不会随着 AI 变化而激增的东西（e.g.，编制和🎩）

[Mingdong He @mingdong_he]

做数学很容易长期得不到正反馈，这让我想起我做数学研究的一个心态：构建理解也是一种进展，而且一个项目的关键性推进，恰恰也在于此。

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

Things are heating up on Terry Tao’s blog. In “If Math Is More Than Proof, We Need to Better Celebrate the Rest of It,” Grant Sanderson of @3blue1brown proposes “open exposition problems” -- rewarding the work of making math genuinely understandable.

https://t.co/zBOhhDNuNU

[Lenka Zdeborova @zdeborova]

After 25 years of being told that theoretical physics isn’t mathematics because we prioritize understanding over proofs, I find the math-AI debate rather heartwarming. Suddenly, many mathematicians are explaining that mathematics is about understanding, not just proofs. Welcome!

[Mingdong He @mingdong_he]

@UniofOxford Happy Chinese New Year！

[Mingdong He @mingdong_he]

@amblakey @UoNMaths Very nice to meet you today！😄

[Mason Porter @masonporter]

That pretty much sums it up.

(from "Statistical Mechanics in a Nutshell" by Luca Peliti)

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2021 #NobelPrize in Physics to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.”