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Comment Re: Ok, so since market has started ignoring him (Score 3, Insightful) 161

No, I'm not going to play that game. You can google yourself.

If you can't be bothered to support your statements don't expect anyone to be bothered to care about what you have to say.

It's a matter of such renowned concern that you'd have to be willfully ignorant to not be appraised of it.

See above.

Comment Re:you can now buy Inside Trading! (Score 2) 161

Stop using the word insider. It's a weasel word. There's nothing insider about this.

Insider is not a weasel word. The president providing advanced notice of material policy decisions to people who pay him so they can exploit the markets is of course insider trading.

Imagine someone finds out that the SEC is going to ban the trading of cryptocurrencies.
Imagine he tells the world.
Everyone who trades on that is guilty of insider trading

For insider trading to be insider trading it has to be an insider doing the trading or disclosing and it has to be material non public information. Your example fails both tests.

Everyone who trades on that is guilty of insider trading....

Given your example is not insider trading conclusions drawn from your incorrect assertion are themselves also invalid.

Comment Re: Ok, so since market has started ignoring him (Score 4, Insightful) 161

Meanwhile the Democrat lemmings here ignore people like Nancy Pelosi. Multiple people in both houses having been doing this crap for decades and you so called educated folks ignore that very obvious fact.

But but but Trump.

This is exactly why I rarely post here anymore. Your TDS has blinded you. Just like how you ignore that the DSA is taking over the DNC while you aren't paying attention.

Do you believe it is possible to ever focus on a given topic without being required to evaluate every other instance of any other situation that could be remotely construed to be similar having ever occurred in human history?

If you were in court defending a client from a murder charge would you chastise the court for their failure to enumerate all the other murders who murder too? Would you drone on about how it is unfair to single out your client while asserting the court is suffering from MDS (Murderer Derangement Syndrome)?

Comment Re:Don't ever use hotel WiFi (Score 1) 30

If you can establish a minimum level of documentation an immigrant must have in order to qualify for assistance or other services, I'd be more than happy to pass that on to our state.

Anecdote: I was stuck in line at the grocery store behind a lady (quite attractive) attempting to buy a moneygram. She presented a piece of paper (I'm guessing) with the amount and recipient. But when prompted for ID, all she could say was "No se. No se." After some time, she got her moneygram and moved on. When I left, I passed her at the door and she apologized to me, in perfect English, for taking so long. So, I'm guessing that minimum ID required in this country, if you understand the system, is zero.

Comment Re:When milliseconds count (Score 1) 161

The distinction here is that they are in that situation getting information about what the market is doing slightly faster, or sending an order slightly faster. But here the information is information that is not publicly available. So yes, the distinction here is clear. This is insider trading. (That the other stuff should also be illegal but isn't is a secondary issue here.)

Comment Re:How? (Score 2) 141

Yes, you and I have disagreed on these matters before here. That you might want to listen even a little bit to subject matter experts should maybe occur to you. But if you don't want to listen to me, then there are other options. Alvaro Lozano-Robledo did a great interview with Francesco Fournier-Facio about it the sofic group problem and why we care https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . Fournier-Facio has done a lot of recent good work in infinite group theory. If you want to learn more about the sphere packing problem and why we care, you can look at Conway and Sloane's book "Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups." For the Ramsey problem, you can check out Ron Graham's book on Ramsey theory, although it is a bit old at this point. A more up to date book is Soifer's "Ramsey Theory: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" but I haven't personally read it. But the upshot is that other than which of these problems I've personally worked unsuccessfully on, there's nothing here that you cannot verify yourself, so you don't really need to rely on me and your own opinion that I have no clue is only a little relevant.

Comment Re:How? (Score 2) 141

Mathematician here. None of the ten problems under discussion here are remotely problems that "nobody really looked for a long time because the problem was not interesting enough." All ten of these were major problems in their subfields; I was familiar with 8/10 before this, and I've talked with people in the other subfields who have confirmed that the other 2 were also major enough. The sphere packing problem has been a problem which people have been thinking about variants of for literally over a hundred years, and is one that I thought about (and made no progress on) when I was doing my PhD. The Ramsey problem is one of the most famous open problems in Ramsey theory, and one I've also thought about, as my own research areas have moved somewhat into graph theory the last few years. Of the remaining other 6, I've never seriously thought about, but are still well known problems.

Your point about there being many open problems, and they've only solved a small fraction has more validity. But that's also just as true for how human mathematicians function. I've probably thought about hundreds of problems, and solved only maybe 5% of those, and nothing I've solved has been remotely of the level of any of these ten problems in fame or amount of prior attention. That these systems are only solving a fraction of the problems is true but is only the smallest hit on how impressive these results are. And these systems continue to improve. We'll likely see even more impressive results in a month or two.

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