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> put an encryption key of 4

Hey the 4 was picked for good reason!

xkcd.com/221/

“PHP security team”

Everyone in such a ragtag team would have an overlapping day job where the same crisis management needs to happen.

That is the integral

When this piece of code exists in a library, it makes it pretty much impossible to extend by the user of the library.

It is important to get people excited about science, and inspire the next generation of scientists rather than choose the cheapest path to ‘good science’.

Without public support, you’ll soon find yourself without any funding. This pretty much explains NASA’s dire funding situation over the last thirty or so years.

You can only get so many people excited about weather balloons and space rock chemistry.

The country is pretty polarized now, and amusingly everyone seems to think that the polarization is one sided. Definitely not the side they support.

I have lived in many cities across different countries with dramatically varying economies, and the price of chicken has always been a good proxy for the cost of living. And maintains the same ratio to the price of a bus ticket (and similar things).

Does this phenomenon have a name?

> Is the implication of all this that mathematics research should get a cash injection to pay for high-powered computational tools?

Math will, sure. Mathematicians, doubtful. After all, most high end physics research with billions in funding is now done by postdocs making a lower middle class salary.

Maybe partially.

I think this sort of progress, compounded over the next N years will serve to cleanly split useful math from the ego driven math you speak of.

Certainly there are enormously impactful pure math results yet to be found, but we have no idea really which directions to pursue.

I wonder if this is going to look like the chemistry-alchemy split in the rear view mirror.

“I’m on a war footing,” he said while grabbing coffee during a two-day math workshop at the University of California, Los Angeles, that was rife with talk about the existential crisis that artificial intelligence has created in his field.

There is a huge jump from

AI solves math problems to

> If there are no humans in the field

Realistically, math will be done by well funded teams of people instead of cult of personality mathematicians.

Also, insights from scientific discoveries are for everyone. You do not have to understand the complex multi dimensional algebraic geometry of general relativity to appreciate that gravity bends time as well as space. You don't need to understand fifty years of linear programming research to use a modern solver.

Math doesn’t exist to make mathematicians famous.

It provides deep insights into logic, computation, provides tools for us to understand the universe, establishes mind blowing relationships between seemingly unrelated things.

For example “how much information can a black hole contain?”

This phenomenon has a famous name, the clever Hans effect.

They will be, that’s the point.

The point is to make the field progress by discovering new things!

Who gets credit for what and how credibility is assigned is going to be muddy for a while but that’s the case whenever a bunch of new science happens in close sequence. History is full of math/science discoveries having debated and dubious provenance.