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Electronics engineer.
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[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

la maladie possède cette lucidité terrifiante de faire voler en éclats nos angoisses dérisoires et nos fausses urgences

elle remet immédiatement chaque chose à sa place, efface le bruit du quotidien et nous rappelle avec une clarté absolue ce qui compte vraiment

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

I prefer the company of people who make me smile to those who make me laugh.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Anger is privilege for the strong, duty for the righteous, and self-harm for the weak.

[Stephen Wolfram @stephen_wolfram]

Since all sorts of people have asked me, I decided to write down my current thoughts on "What's the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?"
https://t.co/TQxHFIirSG

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Finance has three simple rules: maintain a clear mind, figure out asymmetries, never talk to idiots.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

2) Some are unable to detect signal; they mistake noise for signal.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

To simplify the INCERTO: noise is self cancelling, signal is additive.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

If you are good at scoring on IQ tests, but not particularly imaginative, AI is in the process of making you obsolete.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Karl Popper, in his Open Society, describes to a "T" the crowd of unelected patronizing "experts" who want to run the lives of people and call those who oppose them "populists". Beautiful Plato vs Socrates passage.

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

Someone jumps into the mess, naively, and discovers what works.

It gets put into textbooks, because it works.

Then people get hired to teach what works as fundamentals, as though they precede discovery.

Students develop a natural aversion to the backwards dryness of what is being "taught."

Worse, companies hire those who do well at backwards dryness, expecting them to discover the next great thing.

You should love learning, but hate education.

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

If you *feel* that AI "threatens" your field, it's not because your field is in danger, it's because you're now part of the old way of doing things.

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

You can go slow if you have one central thing you do, and everything else is done through that lens.

You should get a lot done by going slow.

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

Your friends should be interested in things different than you, your enemies the same as you.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

A great endeavor, this self-study of complex variables. This is the most pleasurable recreational mathematics.
Real mathematics starts with complex analysis. And the shortest (and most scenic) route between two reals transits through the complex!

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

Real communication and frequent creativity is about as close to true happiness as you’re going to get.

They both take something internal and give it a form in the shared world.

I have been accurately seen.
Something now exists because I acted.

You are converting experience into connection or form. That produces coherence, movement, feedback, and evidence that you can affect the world.

Happiness or contentment is not something you permanently acquire. The feeling of aliveness has to be continually renewed through expression, agency, and contact.

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

Rainer Maria Rilke on mutual solitude.

[Omar @omar_dddg]

A lot of us are so desensitised to the Quran but if you really go and read literature, sacred texts, and poetry and then approach the Quran with a fresh pair of eyes and ears, you’ll really realise how monumentally different and grand it is. The Arabs were so stunned by it, that even the disbelievers couldnt decide if Muhamad was a great poet or someone who used Jinn and Magic to charm them with sublime words. These were people who didnt hand out the description of a “poet” willy nilly, it was the greatest skill and talent to master. Imagine hearing something so different, so new, youre accusation of the author is: he must be employing magic.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

So two good things:

1) LLMs threaten the performative aspect of mathematics as a competitive spectator sport limited to a narrow group of savantic misfits.

2) LLMs help spread mathematical knowledge by favoring mathematically adept nonnerdy nonsavantic users.