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Atiyah says, Hirzebruch named and defined the function. Why not look for it in the work of Hirzebruch that Atiyah cites at the end?

I just went through the preprint and I do not understand your comment. What specifically ticked you off? The preprint is well written, arguments are clear and there's enough background for an expert to work things out.

As Atiyah says in the preprint. The magic is the Todd function and the Mathematical framework that comes with it. It seems Atiyah has developed a new framework (which he calls Arithmetic Physics) and a side product of the framework you get a simple proof of RH. I don't know if the proof is correct. But I don't see any signs of crackpottery in the preprint.

Finally, this is in the style of Atiyah. He is known to be a "theory builder" rather than a "problem solver". True to that, he's claiming a whole new way of looking at number theory. So even if the proof turns out to be false. Mathematicians still get some new ideas.

They're probably the most fundamental kind of reinforcement learning algorithms. Understanding bandit algorithms is crucial to developing a good understanding of RL.

Here are some basic things, the predictability of which most people in the developed world enjoy.

1. Clean water 2. Roof over the head and the sense of safety that comes with it. 3. Basic food.

A sense of community and friendship is probably the only basic human necessity that is not certain in the developed world.

Now imagine a world where none of this is can be taken for granted. You live under a constant threat from various sources (disease, wild animals, other humans out there to steal, loot from you etc) , there's not enough food, water and on top of that you're lonely. Religion is one driving force that helps people through these.

It's not about being an atheist per se, but about believing. The others I'm sure strongly believed in something, which kept them going. Landau for example had physics to occupy him and keep him sane.

>7. I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of them), and most priests.

This, to me is the point of religion. We need religion when things are hard and unpredictable. In a world where most things are certain and predictable, religion has no value.

Not a very good abstract. It doesn't tell me anything about Feynman's contribution to molecular biology.

Search for Wulfram Gerstner's courses and books. You'll find most elementary (and advanced) topics in there.

Shouldn't the comparison be made against school shootings world wide? Or at least be normalized for overall crime rate or something?

Nobody eats a tablespoon of turmeric! We usually use 1/4 teaspoon for a 4 person meal. Source: I'm Indian.

Number of samples depends on the effect size. e.g. You only need n=1 to claim a dog can talk.

All of Reinforcement Learning :)

Well it depends on what you mean by quality. On Quora the discussion is meant for the general public, and terms like diophantine equations are defined in common language before delving into their mathematical details. While mathoverflow is for mathematicians, for a layman it's mostly gibberish. So imho it's unfair to even compare the two, they're different things and both have their place.