P = NP if N or P = 0
#NotEvenWrong
@petergleick I never understood how being "woke" can be a bad thing, but in this case it's not even wrong.
Who knew that achieveing "AGI" was purely a financial transaction?!? @openai @microsoft #ai #agi #notevenwrong https://gizmodo.com/leaked-documents-show-openai-has-a-very-clear-definition-of-agi-2000543339
that thing, when you wish a slide were just another example of AI hallucination ;> @thurott @microsoft @linuxfoundation #opensource #notevenwrong
As always an entertaining read when Peter Woit disassembles new string theory hype🤣
"Since no one knows what “M-theory” is, its beauty is that of Pauli’s painting."🤣
If you have a faint idea what this might refers to, you may like to read Woit's newest blog entry.
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=14092
#physics #stringtheory #notevenwrong
#NotEvenWrong
"How I fell out of love with academia"
Posted on April 5, 2024 by Woit
I was very pleased to hear yesterday that this year’s Abel Prize has been awarded to Michel Talagrand. For more about Talagrand and his mathematics, see the Abel site, Quanta, NYT, Nature and elsewhere. Also, see lots of reactions on Twitter.
Almost exactly ten years ago I got an email from someone whose name I didn’t recognize, expressing interest in the notes I had made available online which would turn into the book on quantum mechanics.
He was reading the notes and had some comments which he included, saying he thought they were trivial but maybe I would want to take a look.
Some of them were of the type “I don’t quite understand the argument on page X”.
Figuring that I’d help out an earnest reader with a weak background by explaining the argument a bit better, I took a look at the argument on page X.
After a while I realized that what I had written was nonsense, a very different argument was needed.
“I don’t quite understand” was his way of politely telling me “you have this completely wrong.”
I soon ran into Yannis Karatzas and asked him if he knew anything about this “Michel Talagrand”. He told me “of course! He’s amazing, almost got a Fields Medal”.
Over the next year or two I benefited tremendously from Michel continuing to read carefully through my notes and send me detailed comments.
He was very much responsible for improving a lot the quality and accuracy of what I was writing.
He had begun his own project of trying to understand quantum field theory by writing a book about it.
The result is available as What Is a Quantum Field Theory?, which is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in a precise and accurate account of much of the basics of the subject.
If you’ve seen Gerald Folland’s excellent Quantum Field Theory: A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians, you can think of Talagrand’s book as a much expanded version, giving the full story that Folland only sketched
#peterwoit #MichelTalagrand #FieldsMedal #NotEvenWrong
Someone on Facebook just corrected my friend's use of octopuses to 'octopi' then when I gently pointed out it would be octopodes but octopuses is perfectly fine they said they just liked the sibilance of the word octopi.
The image that pops in my head, every time a CEO from an LLM company talks about AGI ;> @openai #agi #cargocult #notevenwrong
Peter Woit, theoretical physicist, author and professor of mathematics at Columbia University, talks about the beauty of mathematics, Theory of Everything, twistor theory, spinors and why string theory is (not even) wrong!
Timeline:
0:00 Introduction
1:02 The Links Between Physics & Maths
9:02 Number Theory
11:20 The Theory Of Everything
18:12 Spinors
25:37 Twistor Theory
38:31 Beauty & Simplicity
42:44 Symmetry
48:46 Design Argument & God
52:03 The History Of String Theory
56:40 The Problems With String Theory
1:02:30 Rebuttal To String Theorists
1:11:46 Why Did String Theory
Become Popular
1:18:48 The Big Problem In Physics & Academic
1:29:37 Lego Interpretation
1:30:24 Positive Influences (Books, Movies, Role Models)
1:33:10 Biggest Mystery, Legacy &
Meaning Of Life
#maths #physics #learn
#NotEvenWrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcKx1xRW2sQ&t=0s
Peter: https://
www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/
This is one of those things you can't even argue against because it's #NotEvenWrong.
As in, in order for it to even be wrong would require at least a sliver of understanding of the subject at hand, which is clearly not the case of the people making this argument.
@i_give_u_worms @haruki_zaemon "The binary expansion of pi is an infinite non-repeating sequence, and as of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, the exact value of the last digit in the binary expansion of pi is not known. Since the binary expansion of pi continues indefinitely, it cannot be determined with certainty what the last digit would be."
I have a hard time wrapping a definition around "#NotEvenWrong" but this banger from Erich von Daniken does feel like a pretty good example.
He gets so close in the first 2 sentences, then veers off into his own straw-man/fantasy version of evolutionary biology.
[h/t @pzmyers@octodon.social / https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/110458016835543756]
@Levkemyk Nemám dĹŻkaz, Ĺľe MÄ›sĂc je ze sĂ˝ra, takĹľe proÄŤ ho ještÄ› netěžĂme? #notEVENwrong
@johncarlosbaez
Peter Woit's #NotEvenWrong has been exposing #AcademicHype for years, as have you. Thank you 🙏🏻
The bit I find most offensive is that she says, "I've always wondered where this phrase comes from", then simply gives the meaning, not the origin.
(I know the reference is opera. I'm irked by her misusing terminology.)
Final grade: F- #NotEvenWrong
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RT @BadLegalTakes
https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes/status/1353513186410942465
@stevefoerster oh for sure, and Snowden's leaks confirmed many of our assumptions on that score when it comes to the US state. I recently met a person who worked at a Windows shop, has never used GNU/Linux, and refused to believe that Windows gives Microsoft backdoor access. It's like someone claiming that climate change isn't anthropogenic because rain isn't wet. #NotEvenWrong
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