Blowing off the door to the cage containing the magnet is a far cry from blowing up the entire lab.

Still cool though.

There is a huge difference between completing a grade school course and having what it takes to succeed in a STEM career like researcher. You don't have to be unusually gifted at math to succeed in K-12 math, nor do you need the level of perseverance necessary to complete a multi-year research project.

Not saying that there is a difference between the sexes, but as someone with nearly a decade of STEM career experience, it's obvious that this study does not say much about career-level work.

This claimed proof of the Riemann hypothesis does not seem right even on a cursory reading. The general structure of the proof is a proof by contradiction. It assumes the existence of a zero off the critical strip and then supposedly derives a contradiction. However, it does not even seem to use the hypothesis that the zero actually is off the critical strip, or even the basic properties of the zeta function.

I firmly believe anonymity has benefits for democracy, but it has this unfortunate drawback as well.

I think you are right, but even people who aren't anonymous are more nasty online than in person, just because there is a screen in the way.

If you come up with a proof and it's wrong, you're banned from Math.

If you say a proof is wrong and it turns out you are wrong, you're banned from Math.

This is not a published paper. It is being reviewed now to determine whether it should be published. That's partially why peer-review exists in the first place. Mochizuki just made his opus available to other mathematicians so that they can determine whether it makes sense to them. That's how research works.

I think the title here is misleading. Outside of Mochizuki's friends (and perhaps even including them), every mathematician involved has had serious doubts about this purported proof since the beginning. That's simply because the papers are written very different than the usual math paper ---- that is to say, leaving very many things not explained or explained poorly.

But I couldn't be bothered to read it.

Actually I do blame them, because Iâ(TM)m old enough to remember how much worse life was fifty and sixty years ago compared to today.

True enough, but anyone has a probability of ending up in a really shitty situation. Even if it's a small probability, the fact that there are so many people on this planet means some will slip through the cracks.

Look, if the worse conditions of days past compared to today was the only thing keeping everyone from attaining happiness, then we probably would have solved that problem long ago.

This doesn't seem surprising, given that new architecture comes out all the time. What's great is that this amazing piece of work is still FLOSS, powering my Macbook as I type this comment.

Exactly. Also, this situation is perfect for the ultra rich, and why there is such a high tolerance amongst execs for piracy. It keeps everyone else distracted with their media consumption while they continue to take the majority of the wealth.

I've become accomplished at public speaking, but I understand where these students are coming from. Part of it is that some students are just facing too much stress, and having to speak out in class is just too much especially since some of these students don't really have the skills to deal with the stress.

Yeah, it's a fact of life _later_ in life. But there's no reason to be harsh on everyone who has a fear of it and make them go up right away. How about instead have counsellors for students to help them deal with these issues, and let students speak in class when they are ready. Sometimes, throwing someone in the deep end is actually too much.

I think you have to look at it on a case-by-case basis. For example, I buy my classical music from Hyperion and they offer direct MP3 download without DRM/syncing restrictions. I can burn them to CDs or copy them to my phone, and I am pretty confident I have full control over them.

Someone should help make a mirror of this distro, as it has run out of bandwidth for downloading it seems. It's also 32-bit only.

What they're basically saying is that 57.55% of IT workers from the named companies are suffering from psychological trauma you'd more likely expect to find in a war zone, a kidnap situation or a maximum security prison.

You should not be finding it in a 9-5 office job.

Except that in today's world, the typical tech worker has to handle more information than we ever have in our past. Not surprisingly, this causes extremely high strain and mental trauma for a fair number of them.

It may not be a war zone but it is a real problem and if we ignore it, it will just get worse for our society.

I don't know if it's the devices themselves or if we raised a generation that we didn't want to let play outside for fear that they would get into trouble or that something bad would happen to them.

No, it's the devices. The human mind is geared to respond to social cues and providing an immense flood of them to anyone is an easy path to addiction. I have seen people that were addicted to smartphones, who at the same time grew up into adulthood before the internet even existed.