ThomasR

This looks like an interesting, but a bit strange, old story. A bit similar to parts of an earlier posted essay by Gromov. However that may be, the Princeton IAS invited the author and so I'd like to know about how his concepts are intended to become implemented and applied:...

with Peter Thiel on technology progress etc.: http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/durch_die_nacht_mit_-3619996.html I am just looking it, sounds interesting. That real innovations reduced to arrive at homeopathic dosis fits my perceptions. I would even guess stronger variants.

“Sometimes,” says Dr. Freeman, sitting in her airy office in central London, with toys on the floor and copies of her 17 books on the shelf, “those with extremely high IQ don't bother to use it.” (article) Your thoughts on that issue?

I would like to do a kind of poll: Which books/articles do you read now, which ones are on your reading list? What would a "desk archeologist" find when digging up your desk? Some links: "A Stratigraphic Analysis of Desk Debris", "Are we able to think clearly when surrounded by...

What do you think about the new, exiting connections between QFT, Homotopy Theory and pattern recognition, proof verification and (maybe) AI systems? In view of the background of this forum's participants (selfreported in the survey mentioned a few days ago), I guess most of you follow those developments with some...