This wired article is amazing!
“a lot of physicists are better mathematicians than mathematicians. They also teach coding well. They’re better computer scientists than most computer scientists.”
(They’re also better statisticians than statisticians.
)https://wired.trib.al/IvWQkYM
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Physics probably *was* better than their subject... but look at it now. There's a lot of great stuff going on, but fundamental physics is stuck, so many resort to grabbing headlines with silly hype.https://aeon.co/essays/post-empirical-science-is-an-oxymoron-and-it-is-dangerous …
i agree .. theoretical high energy physics is stuck, sadly .. which is why i switched my research focus to non-perturbative QFT/ rigorous foundations to me it seems like a well-defined formalism would be a good starting point
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By the way, I did my PhD on rigorous foundations of quantum field theory. I didn't make much progress in my thesis, but I learned a lot and helped my advisor write a book: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/bsz.html … 'Twas worthwhile. Then I did other stuff.
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that's awesome! i didn't know that .. gonna have to give it a read
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what would be the impacts if there were a 512 character alphabet, a string of such length could be one line of code, you could nest lines of code into different dimensional topologies, and you could process this data with definitions for each character at super fast speeds?
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i have no idea
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