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01 / evaluation
“He had some preconceived theories first. It seems like this is less and less the way we make progress, just because the data is so much more massive and useful.”
02 / evaluation
“Right now we’re going through a cognitive version of the Copernican revolution, where we used to think that human intelligence is the center of the universe, and now we’re seeing that there are very different types of intelligence out there with very different strengths and weaknesses.”
03 / evaluation
“Eventually, we’ve systematically mapped out what doesn’t work and what does work, and we can see a path forward, but it’s evolving with our discussion.”
04 / evaluation
“I mean, you can ask some cheater if there’s a specific thing that’s blocking you that some bad case keeps showing up, that for which your tool doesn’t work.”
05 / evaluation
“Often these models are incorrect, and this causes all kinds of problems. So yeah, to humanize a subject, if you identify a small number of people and say these are representative people of a subject, role models, for example, that has some role, but it can also be too much of it can be harmful because I’ll be the first to say that my own career path is not that of a typical mathematician.”
06 / evaluation
“If viscosity was all there was, then nothing bad would ever happen, but there’s also transport that energy from… in one location of space can get transported because the fluid is in motion to other locations.”
07 / evaluation
“Now I think there’s some more awareness that this systemic risk is actually a much bigger issue, and just because the model is pretty and nice, it may not match reality.”
08 / evaluation
“A lot of it is we don’t know how to use these tools, because it’s a paradigm that… We have not had in the past.”
09 / evaluation
“I think hedgehogs and fox… A fox knows many things a little bit, but a hedgehog knows one thing very, very well, and in mathematics, there’s definitely both hedgehogs and foxes, and then there’s people who can play both roles, and I think ideal collaboration, British mathematicians involves very… You need some diversity, like a fox working with many hedgehogs or vice versa, but I identify mostly as a fox, certainly.”