But the point I'm trying to make is that despite common perception that current problems are "too hard", people are still solving age-old problems today.
Sure, it may be only a handful of mathematicians that can do this on Earth, but it means that problems remain to be solved and the solutions are possible to find.
And as time goes on, more solutions, computer-based or otherwise, will appear. That'll be interesting to see.
This is another reason why math isn't dead. The world's problems aren't solved, and they aren't impossible, either.
I was just having a conversation about this yesterday with my math teacher.
Lots of people think that high level math is just advanced adding and subtracting.
This is good stuff. Props to Zhu Xiping and Cao Huaidong- this shows people that a career in studying mathematics is actually an interesting and rewarding career.
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I remember getting a laugh out of this one a while ago: Animal Cruelty Buy and sell Animal Cruelty on Ebay.
Recently, I watched a lecture on Google Video about Human Computation, and it discussed this.
Luis von Ahn apparently developed the idea. Check it out here.,
Very interesting stuff. He also discusses a different game to identify certain parts of an object that are associated with the labels.
I wondered if Google would (or was) taking advantage of the information gleaned from the ESP game. Apparently they have.
Content Scramble System? That's why! Microsoft's Internet Explorer team just had the wrong definition!
But the point I'm trying to make is that despite common perception that current problems are "too hard", people are still solving age-old problems today. Sure, it may be only a handful of mathematicians that can do this on Earth, but it means that problems remain to be solved and the solutions are possible to find. And as time goes on, more solutions, computer-based or otherwise, will appear. That'll be interesting to see.
This is another reason why math isn't dead. The world's problems aren't solved, and they aren't impossible, either.
I was just having a conversation about this yesterday with my math teacher.
Lots of people think that high level math is just advanced adding and subtracting.
This is good stuff. Props to Zhu Xiping and Cao Huaidong- this shows people that a career in studying mathematics is actually an interesting and rewarding career.
I'm pretty sure they just couldn't be bothered to rewrite Picasa.
When you look at it that way, it looks more like a shot at Microsoft than a compliment.
Well, I don't use Picasa much.
But this is a huge step for Google- and I've heard somewhere that they will be looking into porting the rest of their software suite...
This means that a well-known company is acknowledging Linux as an operating system, which says something for the worldwide acceptance of Linux.
Maybe this is the "tip of the iceberg"?
Maybe I'm being hopeful...