lance.fortnow.com
Complexity Theorist
👤 Joined on 31 August 2023
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@fortnow.bsky.social@fortnow.bsky.social → @fortnow.com@fortnow.com → @lance.fortnow.comI spoke with The Daily about what’s happening to mathematics in the age of AI—and what it feels like to be a mathematician right now. The conversation went places I hadn’t expected. Thank you to Rachel Abrams, Annie Minoff, and their team. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/p...
Show PostWell, this Navier-Stokes affair did blow up in finite time
Show PostI thought based on your bsky post that it was going to be about Hartmanis & Stearns '66 "Algebraic structure theory of sequential machines", but the results in the blog post were cool too! #MathSky
Show Post"We went from slide rules in mission control to calculators in high school in under a decade" The point of the post aside: I did high school a few decades after Lance, and yet calculator was strict no no for us. Being caught with one during an exam could fail you.
Show PostHe should set up his own non-Elsevier journal - a number of editorial boards have quit Elsevier and set up their own journal.
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