I still wish "Nash equilibrium" and "optimal play" weren't treated as synonyms.
We need more papers like this in the world:
Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog
From the paper:
2.1. Terminology New technologies, when introduced, are typically given names that overstate their capabilities, usually by equating them with existing familiar systems or technological artefacts. For example the first computers in the 1940s and 1950s, often little more than glorified electric adding machines, were nevertheless described as “electronic brains”. More recently, large language models (LLMs) have been touted as “artificial intelligence”, and complex physics experiments have been touted as “quantum computers”. In order to avoid any confusion with actual computers like the VIC-20 with which they have nothing in common, we refer to them here as “physics experiments”. Similarly, we refer to an abacus as “an abacus” rather than a digital computer, despite the fact that it relies on digital manipulation to effect its computations. Finally, we refer to a dog as “a dog” because even the most strenuous mental gymnastics can’t really make it sound like it’s a computer.
Spotted on a homework submission from one of my students:
I remember you are solving, and struggling with this hilarious problem on TV while I was eating breakfast before going to school
It was AMC 10B 2022 problem 18, which I must have done during one of my AMC 10 runs.
thinking about all the time i wasted during high school on writing inspid english essays or making posters or whatever
what if i'd spent that time learning something like ipad art instead
why don't high schools teach anything fun?
i will still never understand how installing tex live on windows is an overnight process.
maybe i can use this to convince more windows users to switch to linux