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01 / belief
“Just because a couple lightning bolts have been thrown… I think there’s this flourishing future over the next couple years of really connecting.”
02 / belief
“Going back to Riemann hypothesis solutions, what would that look like if an AI solves it? I think a third way it could happen is it just straight-up works harder.”
03 / belief
“I think the real credit though, you have to back up a bit and talk about Lagrange.”
04 / belief
“I think you should ask people who know a lot about Go and Chess and I'd be curious to hear their opinions on it because I imagine what they would say is, if you're going to be as good at Go as AlphaGo is you’re also not doing tree search, at least exclusively.”
05 / belief
“A good research problem that I think I think might be a good place for you to start in the next couple months” and this guy was like “Oh, okay” and he gets this research problem and he spends some months thinking about it and he comes back and then it later came to light that the professor mistook him for someone else that was someone he was supposed to be mentoring.”
06 / belief
“All of the other students in the class were very confused and I think I remember like they would come to me and I would try to offer to help them and the substitute was going around the class in these circles and basically marking off a little star for how far down the homework people were just to get a sense are they progressing.”
07 / belief
“One of them, as I was emphasizing, I think you just lose touch with what it's like not to know stuff or what it's like to be a student and so maintaining that kind of connection so that I don't become duller and duller over time feels important.”
08 / belief
“Even the ones who we think of as like very, very pure mathematicians in the sense that a lot of their most famous results are pure math like Gauss, actually a lot his output was also centered on very practical problems, Maybe since then is when you start to get an era of something more like pure mathematicians.”
09 / belief
“You have one coconut or nine coconuts like you have a sense of that. But if you ask what number is halfway between one and nine, those groups will answer three whereas you or I or people in our world would probably answer five and because we think on this very linear scale.”