Why did Google give birth to the Transformer? Because Google created an ecosystem where everything could flourish, while the old man in Switzerland lacked such an environment—what could even the smartest and greatest individual do against that?
As an organization, fostering an organically growing context is like governing a great nation with delicate care. A bottom-up (organic growth) environment is the core context for sustained innovation and development!
If we distinguish between form and content: Mathematics = form; language = content. However, mathematics is only one type of form, and subject-predicate-object grammar also belongs to form, yet grammar falls under language.
For example: "Matter determines consciousness." If we apply first-principles thinking—where does matter come from? This statement then becomes: "XXX created matter, and matter determines consciousness." At this point, our interest shifts to the first-principle subject "XXX," focusing our attention on it. Who is XXX? God?
In this thought process, we use the subject-predicate-object grammatical structure to trace back the original subject "matter" in "matter determines consciousness"—where does matter come from? Although this formal reasoning does not involve specific mathematical formulas, it indeed employs formal logic to uncover a flaw and opens the door to deeper rabbit-hole
The research direction has gone off track—it's overly fixated on proteins "chasing fireworks" (metaphorically trivial pursuits), while mitochondrial and other molecular pathways represent a far more substantial and impactful frontier. The academic world is mired in stagnation and decay, demanding external pressure to break its complacency.
mitochondria work by using proteins. Many mitochondrial diseases are due to misregulation of proteins. few molecular pathways are untouched by a protein at some point. Research into fundamental properties of proteins is important because it results in high impacts due to the prevalence of proteins in nearly all aspects of life.
It comes across borderline comical when a man gets asked for his sources while he is clearly stating his formed opinion based on his impressions.
It is hard to think of an example without sounding like I am exaggerating. Imagine if you shared on a thread that Rust has a great ecosystem but it is a little bit too overhyped and someone so cleverly asked for you to cite sources.
Do you really rely on academic studies to form any impression of anything? Is your chain of thought full of citations?
I have this screw I want to undo but Schonenberg et. al. has demonstrated that a Philips screw should be used for this situation. Unable to find any citations on the feasibility of a blunt knife in this situation. Further research needed.
There was a thread on HN semi-recently where I observed that if you think about classifying complexities ("big-O of n squared") by polynomial degree (so we think of O(n^2) as "2"), the logarithm function gives you a literally infinitesimal value.
I was then asked about sources for what amounts to an easy homework problem.
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Why do people keep talking about it? Is it because they've fallen into a dialectical trap? No, it's because they lack the awareness that "Context is King."
As an organization, fostering an organically growing context is like governing a great nation with delicate care. A bottom-up (organic growth) environment is the core context for sustained innovation and development!