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Some relates Q&A's from a math student discussion group: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/28158/a-learning-roadmap-request-from-high-school-to-mid-undergraduate-studies http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1812/learning-new-mathematics http://mathoverflow.net/questions/28438/mathematics-and-autodidactism http://mathoverflow.net/questions/4580/pacing-for-learning-new-material
Kasparov interview
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.
If something came to me claiming to be Omega, I wouldn't have a good way of judging whether to believe it.
If I saw a reason to think about Omega problems, I would push back against the way I visualize the situation.
As it is, I've just got more sympathy with a friend who had problems with math because she'd overthink word problems.
What do yuo mean with "Omega"? E.g. Chaitin's Omega or large cardinals do not fit the remarks.
The curse of giftedness:
“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?
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The value of preserving reality
The talk you link to is below the level of 1960's and 1970's discussions of that issue. Exist no better contemporary discussions of such issues?
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What do you read? What would "desk archeology" produce?
I don't have much of a "desk", so you'd have to unearth one of many baglike things.
Academic reading tends to be law review articles about copyrights, patents, privacy, telecom, etc: trying to keep up with the current state of areas I care about and would like to work in. Nonfiction is law/legal theory, economics, science, and "big think" type books. Some are trying to fix what I think are gaping holes in my education, some to have read what other people in my social circle are reading, some for pleasure, some for reference.
I usually keep more than one book open at a time. Right now I am reading Good Faith Collaboration, which is a new academic book about Wikipedia and its social structures; The Big Necessity for bathroom reading (because the thought of reading that as a bathroom book made me laugh); Guns, Germs, and Steel is on my nightstand (yes, I know, I'm a few years behind on that one...). I have The Gridlock Economy in my totebag because I was referencing it for a project; The Public Domain open in electronic form for the same reason.
Or you could take a glimpse through my LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/profile/mindspillage
Other things always present in my working space: pens, paper (don't ask me to do anything regarding math or logic without a writing implement in my hand), something to drink, remnants of craft supplies, something that plays music, something that tells time, something that will hold my hair out of my face, probably stray books of sheet music also. Things generally not present: a telephone or anything that makes unexpected noises.
Concerning "Guns, Germs, and Steel ": Murray Gell-Mann is involved in some interesting research on general patterns of civilization. But his and Diamond's schemes are just about some general and indirect indicators, not about what the essence of "civilization" is. To get an idea of that, I am curious about instances where "civilization" went down quickly. This puts e.g. "Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941", and "Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization" on my desk. A very remarkable case is told about in Simone Weil's "L'agonie d'une civilisation". I scanned two essay by Zbigniew Herbert on decivilization from this - someone curious to get them? "The Dream of Scipio" by Ian Pears sketches (in typical french history-through-novels manner) a thrilling pattern of several critical moments of the last 1500 years of European history.
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What do you read? What would "desk archeology" produce?
I can see everything that's on my desk without moving any of it. This is slightly less true if you count all three table surfaces in my office as "desk," but even if you do that none of the hidden things are books. They're (as I check) button-making apparatus, pencils, and pads of paper.
Just take "desk archeology" as metapher to be filled as one likes in that context.
What do you read? What would "desk archeology" produce?
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 mess, asks Clive James":
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New Month's Resolutions
A funny idea. My goal is to work further into these issues. Of course I have a precise idea what to do in which order, but as amateur-math reader my attitude is generic lazyness which only occasional deforms into real studying. Unfortunately some friends with whom I discuss those issues are away for more than a month, so there is not much of external motivation.
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A weird version: http://www.vetscite.org/publish/items/005309/index.html