Oh, glorious day! 🎉 The pinnacle of human intellect has graced us with a groundbreaking revelation: printing toys with wires! But wait, first you must prove your worthiness by battling the formidable foes called
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17452759.2026.2613185 #printingtoys #innovation #techrevolution #humanintellect #HackerNews #ngated🚀 Wow, groundbreaking news: someone finally solved a math problem from the last century! 🎉 Meanwhile, the internet continues to be a mysterious enigma to most, and Quanta's readers are expected to celebrate this triumphant victory of human intellect while pretending they understand it. 📚💡
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proof-settles-decades-old-bet-about-connected-networks-20250418/ #mathbreakthrough #internetmystery #humanintellect #QuantaScience #celebration #HackerNews #ngated
New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks | Quanta Magazine
According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in the late 1980s. They’ve now both been proved wrong.
“But synthetical reasoning, setting up as its goal some unattainable abstraction, like an imaginary quantity in algebra, and commencing its course with taking for granted some two assertions which cannot be proved, from the union of these two assumed truths produces a third assumption, and so on in infinite series, to the unspeakable benefit of the human intellect.”
https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/08/13/but-synthetical-reasoning-setting-up-as-its-goal-some-unattainable-abstraction-like-an-imaginary-quantity-in-algebra-and-commencing-its-course-with-taking-for-granted-some-two-assertions-which-ca/
"But synthetical reasoning, setting up as its goal some unattainable abstraction, like an imaginary quantity in algebra, and commencing its course with taking for granted some two assertions which cannot be proved, from the union of these two assumed truths produces a third assumption, and so on in infinite series, to the unspeakable benefit of the human intellect." - The Hermetic Library Blog
But synthetical reasoning, setting up as its goal some unattainable abstraction, like an imaginary quantity in algebra, and commencing its course with taking for granted some two assertions which cannot be proved, from the union of these two assumed truths produces a third assumption, and so on in infinite series, to the unspeakable benefit of […]
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