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TBH I think classic Mario when I hear "Nintendo". The new stuff is a Wii or a Switch. Granted I was born in 1984.

Who watches the birdwatchers?

Saw Alive 2007 in Tokyo at Summer Sonic. It was epic. So glad the album lets me relive the performance.

Microsoft invented those principles when they added UAC to Windows Vista. Also, Al Gore invented the Internet.

ELI5 why he needs to please the Dutch royal family?

CIA Factbook was mundane things like population, land area, system of govt, major exports, etc. Stuff that is now on the right-hand sidebar of Wikipedia. Presumably it was made for US govt employees to have a basic understanding of other countries. It was useful to do a 7th grade research report on Uzbekistan circa 1997.

The issue is not that SAML is XML per se, but rather: (1) auth happens over public internet rather than server-to-server, allowing the user to MITM the message flow and (2) the various XML parsing libs in various languages do not have consistent behavior when it comes to looking up a node by name (i.e. if there are dupes) or finding a child node. MITM can exploit these divergences for auth bypasses, etc.

A SAML lib needs an extreme amount of XML sanitization, while still handling all the various “in-the-wild” XML format funkiness

It’s what old cowboys do when they get Alzheimer’s.

Arxiv is a good blueprint for what we should build on. Terry Tao gave a recent talk about how "canonicalization" is the key bottleneck. The limitation of Arxiv is that is non-canonical, non-peer reviewed. However, there is no reason that journals should have a monopoly on peer review (it should be noted that peer reviewers aren't even directly compensated for it, granted it is supposedly "priced in" to academic salaries.)

The issue here is not AI--it's academic papermill culture and paywalled journals.

AI gives us greater freedom to "stop and smell the roses", explore hidden structures, etc in mathematics. It is a dream come true for curious minds.

Sounds like the plot for Good Will Hunting 2.

I'd talk to your Amazon rep and see if you can get them to agree to $800 million as a compromise. They are usually pretty good at that stuff.

> Inventing completely new mathematics

There will be fewer good mathematicians, but more great mathematicians!

Also, should we capitalize the "C" in "Capitalism"? One might think we should, because C is a capital letter. But capital itself is lowercase, and therein lies the paradox.