[HN Gopher] A scientist who developed a new way to understand co...
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A scientist who developed a new way to understand communication
Author : nsoonhui
Score : 31 points
Date : 2022-07-12 08:48 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.quantamagazine.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.quantamagazine.org)
| jonathanstrange wrote:
| Maybe I'm mistaken but it seems to me that some of his work on
| communication is relevant for the development of attack-resilient
| decentralized networks with potentially adversarial nodes. A lot
| of these are under development.
| ykonstant wrote:
| For those interested in Braverman's actual scientific
| contributions, the mathunion.org page offers more information:
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| https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/imu-abacus-medal/abacus...
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| However, I did find even the citation and write-up there a bit
| lacking; the draft of his ICM talk at
| https://mbraverm.princeton.edu/files/ICM2022-Braverman.pdf is a
| much better source for his work.
| generalizations wrote:
| The article seems to be an overview of the person, rather than
| anything detailed about a specific paper he wrote. Apparently he
| received an award recently?
|
| This looks like it might be the paper the article mentions,
| though:
| https://mbraverm.princeton.edu/files/ICM2022-Braverman.pdf
| yosito wrote:
| I couldn't, for the life of me, sus out a clear summary of his
| work or why it's significant.
| klyrs wrote:
| There's a joke here about understanding communication and I
| can't quite put my finger on it...
| smegsicle wrote:
| communication is evolving, quantamagazine.com is being left
| behind, and we're pretty sure it's this guy's fault
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