Hurrah, Jon! > On Oct 18, 2026, at 12:51 PM, Jon Zingale <[email protected]> wrote: > > One thing that continues to bore me about the whole thing is that what seems > to most surprise Strogatz is still just interpolation. He feels that the unit > distance problem is creative because there are these two highly developed > areas of mathematics where researchers failed historically to look for > functors between. > > Ok, yeah, I get it. As an institutional doctoral student, one is likely to be > handed a small segment of one of these interpolation problems so that they > can work toward it while showing the world that the accreditation is > deserved. That kind of thing never really impresses me, maybe it should. I > don't care much for industrial education anyway. > > I think it is novel that all these years later, my favorite introduction to > Number Theory (Niven 2 or 5) is effectively *just* a retelling of > Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. > > Before the usual objection is made, about humans not being all that special > because if I can say what humans do (in language) then I have effectively > stated a recipe and some Turing machine can halt. I suspect LLMs can be made > to do the thing I would like to see, ML already does things like enhanced > sampling (weighted ensemble, etc...). It will eventually happen and I will be > impressed when these machines begin to scout effectively beyond the convex > hull. Because I tend to believe that there is no free lunch, this effective > extrapolation will be ugly just as it is for us, for ants, for anything. > > I suppose my objection is that if we become self-satisfied with what these > machines are doing we may fail to continue looking at what legacy systems do > surprisingly well. > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... > --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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