[HN Gopher] A scientist who developed a new way to understand co... ___________________________________________________________________ A scientist who developed a new way to understand communication Author : nsoonhui Score : 31 points Date : 2022-07-12 08:48 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.quantamagazine.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.quantamagazine.org) | jonathanstrange wrote: | Maybe I'm mistaken but it seems to me that some of his work on | communication is relevant for the development of attack-resilient | decentralized networks with potentially adversarial nodes. A lot | of these are under development. | ykonstant wrote: | For those interested in Braverman's actual scientific | contributions, the mathunion.org page offers more information: | | https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/imu-abacus-medal/abacus... | | However, I did find even the citation and write-up there a bit | lacking; the draft of his ICM talk at | https://mbraverm.princeton.edu/files/ICM2022-Braverman.pdf is a | much better source for his work. | generalizations wrote: | The article seems to be an overview of the person, rather than | anything detailed about a specific paper he wrote. Apparently he | received an award recently? | | This looks like it might be the paper the article mentions, | though: | https://mbraverm.princeton.edu/files/ICM2022-Braverman.pdf | yosito wrote: | I couldn't, for the life of me, sus out a clear summary of his | work or why it's significant. | klyrs wrote: | There's a joke here about understanding communication and I | can't quite put my finger on it... | smegsicle wrote: | communication is evolving, quantamagazine.com is being left | behind, and we're pretty sure it's this guy's fault ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-13 23:01 UTC)