Mochizuki had invented a new branch of his discipline, one that is astonishingly abstract even by the standards of pure maths. “Looking at it, you feel a bit like you might be reading a paper from the future, or from outer space. Mochizuki has estimated that it would take a maths graduate student about 10 years to be able to understand his work, and Fesenko believes that it would take even an expert in arithmetic geometry some 500 hours. So far, only four mathematicians say that they have been able to read the entire proof.
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2015-11-02 @ 13.31.29 ∈ In English
"The new analysis of these past solar storms also confirms that they were several times stronger than the most intense solar storms that have been recorded on Earth [such as the Carrington Event]."
2015-11-02 @ 12.49.10 ∈ In English
(Article from last July.)
via Artem Russakovskii
One of the most terrifying things I've ever read. Mother Nature is scary. Very scary.
It's a long read but just trust me on this and read it through.
2015-10-31 @ 15.36.58 ∈ In English
This week's reminder that, though it's not the one from Back To The Future, we are living in the future.
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2015-10-30 @ 14.10.14 ∈ In English
(Nothing new or particularly insightful in the article, just a brief overview of common North European species.)
For The Love of Crows
2015-10-29 @ 11.08.55 ∈ In English
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2015-10-25 @ 19.26.03 ∈ In English
2015-10-25 @ 17.17.26 ∈ In English
"Morency and his colleagues are particularly interested in using machine learning to trace connections between facial expressions and emotional state among depressed people. And what they’ve found so far is unexpected. For one thing, depressed people and non-depressed people smile with the same frequency. But the kinds of smiling they did were different. So while depressed people smiled as often as non-depressed people, the depressed people’s smiles lasted for a shorter period of time. […]
There was also a pronounced gender difference in facial expressions among depressed people. In one University of Southern California study, Morency and three other researchers found that depressed men frown more often then non-depressed men, but observed the opposite effect among women: Depressed women frowned less frequently than non-depressed women."
