mathematicians mostly don't work on anything remotely useful and they rely on nobody else understanding what they do to keep this up; schools tolerate this b/c prestige + somebody needs to teach and TA calculushttps://twitter.com/mykola/status/1198719315589160960 …
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the standard counterargument "but you never know what might be useful in 50 years!" ignores opportunity costs. we're allowing some of the smartest people around to nerdsnipe themselves and each other into spending all their time on beautiful useless shit
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a bigshot professor at berkeley once tried to dunk on ML by saying that it basically only relied on 18th century math; imo this is a much bigger dunk on math
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It’s not Marx or Lenin’s fault that linear programming was hardly developed and some big fixed point theorems were unknown when they wrote.
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