DanArmak comments on Mathematics as a lossy compression algorithm gone wild - Less Wrong

35 Post author: shminux 06 June 2014 11:53PM

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Comment author: DanArmak 07 June 2014 04:27:43PM 2 points [-]

Your way of formulating the answer may have been influenced by his theory?

I'm quibbling. I recommended the "full procedure" out of habit. It's wasn't really necessary in this particular case.

Comment author: shminux 07 June 2014 05:10:41PM *  2 points [-]

Anyway, I have about 3 years of college math (geared toward physics, not math students), plus some elements of grad-level math required for my grad degree, such as differential geometry and algebraic topology.