Background in math, linguistics, and creative writing. Some machine learning and NLP. Some parsing and compiler work. Have been working remotely for the past 2.5 years for an established company as a primarily backend website and application developer. Also lead the small part time software team for an independent newspaper. Looking for an interesting and challenging position dealing with new technologies and/or research.
Exactly! The beauty of life is in its flaws and limitations. Perfection is boring. Gödel opened the door to a multiverse of mathematics, all flawed in some way, yet not unworthy of study.
Mathematicians of the past sought perfection for the glory of God. Now we have the opportunity to give credit where it’s due: to our fellow human beings, many of whom devoted their lives to the craft of mathematics.
Gödel's work actually echoes Christianity quite deeply. A key theme of Christianity is that humans are incapable of being good (much less of achieving perfection) on their own strength--no more than Hilbert could axiomatize all of mathematics with a consistent, computable set of axioms.
"Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise." (Ecclesiastes 7:16)
"There is no distinction, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." (Romans 3:22-23)
It would be interesting to see an analysis where the most fundamental results in mathematics are looked at under the light of their discoverers' ideological beliefs and psychologies.
I wonder whether Gödel would have pursued the Proof if he did not believe in an omnipotent god.
Do I remember right that the Tor project wouldn't accept a very large number of relays from a single party because it gives too much influence over the network?
IIRC, it takes about 50% of the network to do so. This is a waste of $100k though, as the network is only used by a small number of people, and this would be a permanent sinkhole of the money and these added servers would simply disappear after a year.
This guy/gal definitely needs something more interesting. Perhaps something meaningful, or perhaps just something insanely cool. A temporary addition to an existing worker farm is not a great idea.
I don't know that violent crime per se is a symptom of mental illness. But if a young man walks into a school cafeteria and shoots five people and then himself for no discernible reason, I think that qualifies as a symptom of mental illness. I think the author of this study relies too much on a clinical diagnosis or some prior evidence of serious mental illness. Imagine if a similar study explored the link between hearing voices and mental illness, and concluded that there must be no link because most of the people hearing voices for the first time had no previous clinical diagnoses or any other previous symptoms. The difference is that someone hearing voices for the first time can then go on hearing them for years, while someone who commits gun violence is generally not free to continue committing more. I am also curious why drug and alcohol abuse is not regarded by the author as a form of mental illness.
Are you suggesting that if someone commits a violent crime they must have some kind of mental illness? And that we just haven't defined "prepared to commit an act of violence" as a mental illness.
I'm suggesting that these are commonly held beliefs, not that I hold them personally. More so, I was looking for input on the subject, as my personal experience in this area is virtually nonexistent.
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Background in math, linguistics, and creative writing. Some machine learning and NLP. Some parsing and compiler work. Have been working remotely for the past 2.5 years for an established company as a primarily backend website and application developer. Also lead the small part time software team for an independent newspaper. Looking for an interesting and challenging position dealing with new technologies and/or research.