[HN Gopher] Doubts about teapot supremacy: my reply to Richard B...
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       Doubts about teapot supremacy: my reply to Richard Borcherds
        
       Author : EvgeniyZh
       Score  : 65 points
       Date   : 2021-04-21 12:13 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | klyrs wrote:
       | Protip: value village has hoards of teapots for cheap
        
       | strikelaserclaw wrote:
       | I don't have anything intelligent to say about this article but
       | damn, i find it surprising that Richard Borchards is a prolific
       | youtuber.
        
         | queuebert wrote:
         | His math lectures have renewed my love of the subject that I
         | had lost in poorly taught undergraduate classes.
        
         | taliesinb wrote:
         | I've been learning representation theory (among other topics)
         | from his Youtube lectures! They're a real treasure trove. And
         | he's got a dry sense of humor that I quite like.
         | 
         | I can also recommend this interview with him by Curt Jaimungal,
         | which is filled with his insights and opinions about his
         | practice of mathematics, and his life as a mathematician:
         | https://youtu.be/xu15ZbxxnUQ
        
       | woopwoop wrote:
       | I don't find this compelling at all. I'm not in the least
       | convinced that there is a way for a classical computer to
       | determine how many pieces a dropped teapot will break into given
       | an arbitrarily detailed description of it's structure. Handwaving
       | about wind tunnels does nothing to assuage my doubts.
        
         | a1369209993 wrote:
         | On the other hand, I'm not in the least convinced that there is
         | a way for a _teapot_ to determine how many pieces a (specified,
         | in-general-different) dropped teapot will break into given an
         | arbitrarily detailed description of it 's structure.
        
       | AbrahamParangi wrote:
       | Unrelated, but the image of Scott Aaronson playing with teapots
       | with his children brings me great joy. I suspect that Covid has
       | increased my appreciation for domesticity, I wonder if this is a
       | common trend?
       | 
       | Cursory googling suggests that Covid has been bad for family
       | formation but I've heard anecdotally that "everyone is getting
       | married."
        
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