[HN Gopher] Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born ___________________________________________________________________ Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born Author : savagejohn Score : 70 points Date : 2023-07-26 19:22 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz) (TXT) w3m dump (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz) | nwoli wrote: | Kind of a great quote by Altman there | wintogreen74 wrote: | I personally hate this train of thought. It sounds identical to | the "all great things originally looked like toys" and then | this gets twisted to the invalid conclusion that "all toys will | eventually be great". His logic also seems to contradict their | early validation mantra. I'd appreciate an even more strict | filter on startup ideas, preventing so much waste on multiple | versions of the same unneeded projects. | henrydark wrote: | > Grothendieck was, to be clear, a strong mathematician compared | to most anyone, but these peers were the most talented young | mathematicians in France, and unlike Grothendieck, who had spent | the war in an internment camp at Rieucros, near Mende, they had | been placed in the best schools and tutored. | | Weil was also in a camp. Honestly, I can't stand Geothendieck. | Where's the piece about how sociable Serre and Deligne were (and | still are), and how much they contributed along side | Geothendieck, but without going full bonkers? | | Fine, schemes and etale topology are great, the category theory | viewpoint is enlightening, but at the end of the day I'm | interested in Deligne's (two) proof(s), in Mazur's torsion | theorem, in Wiles' theorem, etc. Grothendieck's foundation is | said to be fundamental to all of these, but I'm not so sure. | jjgreen wrote: | J.-P. Serre is indeed a gentleman, I had occasion to be a | passenger in a car with him (and Giles Pisier) many years ago, | me a no-mark grad student sitting with two giants. He quizzed | me about my work and seemed genuinely interested in my relies, | I knew this was all kid's stuff to him; kindness personified. | wwarner wrote: | I thought it was a good read. Basically the essay argues that one | should make time, and summon the requisite courage, to look for | new ideas and new ways of thinking. Imo it applies to any | decision that must be made alone. | analyticcadep wrote: | [dead] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-26 23:00 UTC)