Terence Tao
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Terence Tao is a professor of mathematics at UCLA.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Current role: Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 17 July 1975, Adelaide, South Australia (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: BSc and MSc from Flinders University (1991, aged 16); PhD from Princeton (1996, under Elias Stein) (opens wiqqi.app)
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5 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Blog: What's new (opens terrytao.wordpress.com)
“Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era”
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Mastodon: @tao@mathstodon.xyz (opens mathstodon.xyz)
“An update to the parody OpenAI announcement of their release of 500 film endings:”
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Bluesky: teorth.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
“I came across this parody of a rumored upcoming press release by OpenAI: "OpenAI Releases the Final Ten Minutes of 500 Previously Unreleased Films, Ushering in a New Era of Movie Watching" :”
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Blog: What's new (opens terrytao.wordpress.com)
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54 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Most of the value that mathematics and mathematicians contribute to the world will not be replaced by AI, though it could be magnified by it. (opens korrents.com)
“Most of the value that flows into the world from mathematics and the work of mathematicians will not be replaced by AI, but could be magnified.”
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Improper use of AI offloads a person's thinking and learning, which mortgages a field's future development. (opens korrents.com)
“Improper usage of AI offloads thinking, understanding and learning, thus mortgaging future mathematical development.”
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The value of a body of knowledge comes from the process of engaging with it, not just from its end products. (opens korrents.com)
“The value of math, like so many other forms of knowledge, also comes from the process, not just the product.”
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Most of the value that mathematics and mathematicians contribute to the world will not be replaced by AI, though it could be magnified by it. (opens korrents.com)
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8 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Mathematical Problems (opens rcmnd.app)
“David Hilbert, "Mathematical Problems", 1900. (Most famous for the list of 23 problems themselves, but the preamble is highly recommended reading.”
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A Mathematician's Apology (opens rcmnd.app)
“G. H. Hardy, "A Mathematician's Apology", 1940 (somewhat dated at this point, but still interesting)”
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On teaching mathematics (opens rcmnd.app)
“Vladimir Arnold, "On teaching mathematics", 1997 (somewhat provocative in tone, but still interesting)”
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Mathematical Problems (opens rcmnd.app)