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01 / belief
“I think one aspect of science is that it’s not just creating a new theory and validating it, but communicating it to others.”
02 / belief
“On the one hand, I think the type of papers that I would write today, if I had to do them without AI assistance, would definitely take five times longer.”
03 / belief
“I think there’ll be a similar thing happening with the hundreds of really prestigious, difficult math problems out there.”
04 / belief
“Maybe if you do math competitions or something, you get a slightly different experience. But I think many people, they don’t find their native math language until very late or usually too late.”
05 / belief
“I think the younger generation is always really creative and enthusiastic and inventive.”
06 / belief
“As the unit needle, you can spin it around its center, and I think that gives you a disc of area, I think pi over four.”
07 / belief
“I think the theories that work well, that explain the universe, tend to also involve the same mathematical objects that work well to solve mathematical problems.”
08 / belief
“Yeah, I think mathematics inherently, mathematics is so huge these days that nobody knows all of modern mathematics. And inevitably, we make mistakes and you can’t cover up your mistakes with just bravado because people will ask for your proofs, and if you don’t have the proofs, you don’t have the proofs.”
09 / belief
“I believe so. The history of physics has been out of unification much like mathematics over the years.”
10 / belief
“There’s the real world, there’s what we observe of the real world, observations, and then our mental models as to how we think the world works.”
11 / belief
“I would definitely not want this to become part of your tenure review or something. But I mean, I think already in enterprise computing, people do use some of these metrics as part of the assessment of performance of an employee.”
12 / belief
“Yeah, so it does keep us honest. It’s not a perfect panacea, but I think we do have more of a culture of admitting error because we’re forced to all the time.”
13 / belief
“I think the way of colleague might put it is that if you are on the streets of New York and you’re put in a blindfold and you’re put in a car and after some hours the blindfold is off and then you’re in Beijing.”
14 / belief
“We believe the primes behave like a random set. And so the reason why we care about the twin prime conjecture is a test case for whether we can genuinely confidently say with 0% chance of error that the primes behave like a random set.”