Comments on: A speech for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

By: toni

toni — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:26:26 +0000

NSA and GCHQ do “pure” mathematics? No, they hire proffessionals to do mathematic jobs only

By: Harold Jarche » Friday’s Finds #22

Harold Jarche » Friday’s Finds #22 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:18:28 +0000

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Seb Paquet (sebpaquet) 's status on Thursday, 15-Oct-09 11:16:29 UTC - Identi.ca — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:16:36 +0000

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By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:07:29 +0000

Some empirical investigations show that about 20% of people cannot grasp or understand classroom lectures. That is, they cannot understand by hearing, rather by reading. Also, it is known that female students are better at both keeping notes and thinking– while males have difficulty at this.

Therefore, there is no method that is good for everyone, and the internet and on-line lectures give more options for students. This will certainly increase effective learning, not decrease it.

By: גיקדום 30.9.2009 « ניימן 3.0

גיקדום 30.9.2009 « ניימן 3.0 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:24:53 +0000

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By: Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:41:27 +0000

I disagree that the view count is not a definite measure for the number of people who have seen it. Although YouTube counters are not as accurate as they could be, in fact if a person opens and closes a video without watching it, the counter does not register a view. The standard for web video is three seconds of watching time before it can be counted as a “view”. And in the unlikely scenario where a single person watches a video 100 times, it means they really really like it. Therefore, the view count is a strong indicator of the interest in a particular video.

Here’s the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX3VmDgiFnY

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Tweetlinks, 9-26-09 [A Blog Around The Clock] « Technology Blogs — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:46:23 +0000

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By: Terence Tao

Terence Tao — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:40:33 +0000

I suppose the line between pure and applied mathematics can get somewhat blurry, but for the purposes of my talk I had intended to focus on academic pure mathematics, as opposed to industrial or security organisation mathematics, and have amended the talk accordingly.

By: Andy P.

Andy P. — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:58:15 +0000

They are not allowed to talk about their work, so who knows? It probably depends on what you mean by “pure math” — I get the impression that a lot of their work deals with cryptography, and thus that they end up doing some pretty serious number theory.

By: timur

timur — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:01:41 +0000

I don’t know NSA, but given that Microsoft Research does some pure math…