alt Hacker NewsReading the descriptions of their work makes me think of magic. It's an understanding of the principles of math and physics at a level above almost everyone on the planet - these are modern wizards.
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BeetleB • today at 8:12 PM
The description of Yu Deng's work should be accessible to someone who's taken condensed matter physics in grad school.
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layer8 • today at 7:47 PM
Clarke’s third law.
vonneumannstan • today at 6:31 PM
Incredibly impotent wizards. Very little if anything they work on will have direct effects on the world.
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So overhyped. Yet they have no power but some prestige among nerds. The reason why it is bad is that the money/status is very limited relative to the amount of smart people. I would rather praise developments in quantitative sciences.