A feast of form in my twitter-stream today
And yet this playful spirit is what brought us Weil‘s conjecture and Pierre Deligne‘s Abel Prize, and the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture and Wiles‘ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.
Serious playfulness is key… to serious, magical breakthroughs. In any and all domains.
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With that in mind, here are the rest of the patterns I recognized in todays feed.
Let’s start with self-reference, which can hardly get more succinct than the hackers hacked:
There’s also a self-referential paradox at work in the question of a defendant appearing in his own defense — something that gives judges pause, because they see how tightly the serpent is chasing its own tail. Defendant defends self, From Raff Pantucci:
Even tragedy can take self-referential form.
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But lets move on to Turkey, which provided a rich dividend:
There was this problem:
Turkish I couldn’t read, Dutch I can more or less make out — but for an English tweet making the same point let’s go to Zeynep Tufekci, who has expertise in both matters Turkish and matters Internet, and tweets about Erdogan disapproving of tweeting:
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