🚀 Breaking news: math is still hard! 🎉 #Quanta Magazine bravely tackles the age-old mystery of #geometry, but who knew you could revive something that never died? 🤯 Apparently, old problems are now "new" because calling them "still unsolved" isn't trendy enough. 🙃
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-math-revives-geometrys-oldest-problems-20250926/ #mathisstillhard #mysteries #magzine #unsolvedproblems #breakingnews #HackerNews #ngated

Imagine being a brilliant physicist/mathematician and still avoiding the most important problems because your career depends on publishing frequent papers, not solving the biggest mysteries in the world.

That's why you can't do things like this in academia.

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-06-24/spanish-mathematician-javier-gomez-serrano-and-google-deepmind-team-up-to-solve-the-navier-stokes-million-dollar-problem.html

#NavierStokes #GoogleDeepMind #DeepMind #MillenniumProblems #Existence #Smoothness #Fluid #FluidDynamics #Turbulence #Dynamics #TurbulentFlows #Research #Engineering #Physics #Math #Maths #Mathematics #UnsolvedProblems #BiggestMystery #Flows #MillionDollarProblem

The Problem Isn't Email, It's Microsoft Exchange -- it turns out my 2011-vintage rant still rings true, now also available trackerless: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_problem_isnt_email_its_microsoft_exchange.html #inefficiency #timewasted #email #archiving #microsoft #exchange #compliance #deduplication #unsolvedproblems #smtp #mail #annoyances

Why is printing out web pages still so insufferable? Yes, I know, web pages weren't designed to be printed. Yet, there must be some way for browsers to offer better formatting options.

A gigantic intro image makes sense on the webpage, but not on the printed page. I should be able to embiggen or shrink text in the print preview view, much as I do when viewing on-screen. But we can't even get browser printing to stop splitting lines (top half on one page and bottom half on the next). There must be a better way.

#printing #printers #webBrowsers #browsers #unsolvedProblems

“These games sprang from their deep need to close their eyes and flee from unsolved problems and anxious forebodings of doom into an imaginary world as innocuous as possible.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/10/15/these-games-sprang-from-their-deep-need-to-close-their-eyes-and-flee-from-unsolved-problems-and-anxious-forebodings-of-doom-into-an-imaginary-world-as-innocuous-as-possible/