paper-machine comments on [SEQ RERUN] Class Project - Less Wrong

2 Post author: MinibearRex 22 May 2012 04:11AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 May 2012 08:12:15AM 4 points [-]

I was thinking about this during the Falcon 9/Dragon launch, and the lowest-hanging fruit in PDEs probably involves systematizing the wealth of inequalities and quantitative results regarding solutions of PDEs. It probably wouldn't be very flashy, though -- there are a lot of extremely technical results that are only well-understood by a handful of people.

There was an attempt headed by Tao (of course) and others, called DispersiveWiki, but it fell to a spam attack a couple months ago. I'm not sure if it's been rebooted.

Comment author: komponisto 23 May 2012 04:37:44AM 2 points [-]

There was an attempt headed by Tao (of course) and others, called DispersiveWiki, but it fell to a spam attack a couple months ago. I'm not sure if it's been rebooted

It seems to be working at the moment..

I think the wiki format would be very useful for work of this kind; and I agree that systematizing PDE results seems a promising approach.