Bret Victor came up with one weird trick and is going around claiming things are "obsolete" because the weird trick makes a narrow set of cases somewhat easier to understand and it's really oldhttps://twitter.com/Chemjobber/status/982680932942409728 …
He doesn't there, either. (Though there are definitely a few hyperbolic paragraphs.) As I wrote in my notes on "Kill math":pic.twitter.com/6Rz83Q686V
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i don't think math needs to be defended. i'm just irritated by a guy whose arrogance far surpasses achievements
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I presume the reference to electricity is about Faraday? Could you explain the references to moon landings and the automobile please? Fwiw I think the tension here harks back to an older discourse https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/articles/beginnings/beginnings.htm … plus the distinction between polished results & exploration
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