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Hasn’t this been tried already?

I thought Stephen Wolfram had already done some victory laps.

You might be thinking of the Langlands program

The Langlands program is about correspondences between analytic number theory and harmonic analysis. You could think about it as a unification of parts of mathematics that seem to have no reason to join up but turn out to have deep and non-obvious connections. It doesn't have anything to do with formalization.

Here's a really good and accessible intro to Langlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dyytPboqvE


You give me too much credit. I was just being tongue-in-cheek about Principia Mathematica.


From your link:

> A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals (not news publications) that set out to test Betteridge's law and Hinchliffe's rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those that were questions, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no".

> A 2018 study of 2,585 articles in four academic journals in the field of ecology similarly found that very few titles were posed as questions at all, with 1.82 percent being wh-questions and 2.15 percent being yes/no questions. Of the yes/no questions, 44 percent were answered "yes", 34 percent "maybe", and only 22 percent were answered "no".

> In 2015, a study of 26,000 articles from 13 news sites on the World Wide Web, conducted by a data scientist and published on his blog, found that the majority (54 percent) were yes/no questions, which divided into 20 percent "yes" answers, 17 percent "no" answers and 16 percent whose answers he could not determine.


It's actually based on country of birth. If your parents were French but were living in India when you where born, you will be in the India quota, even if your nationality is French.


It's 100% based on country of birth. What do you mean?


Country of birth is a protected characteristic. You cannot discriminate against people on the basis of country of birth, but the government has a sanctioned policy to do exactly that.

So, yeah, it is not about race, but is very much discrimination that should be illegal.


Since we are talking for other people, "devs" wouldn't have supported someone downloading all those copyrighted works from the pirate bay and profited by, for example, selling them. I don't see any 180.


Weren't they already rebuilding it a couple of years ago?


? In general, it is, unless it has some collector value, for example.


No it is not. Can they be used to solve similar issues? Sure. But value isn’t the same and they are not identical. Just like a token.


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