<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 6:45 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><p class="MsoNormal"> Mike, perhaps to become first to discover the bad news about mathematics. In the meantime… distrust away, me lad. It’s not an issue, it’s a solution, to the problem of excessive trust. I have been cured of that one, with plenty of medications to combat excessive trust coming this past week.<br></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">I like math, but I must admit I skim the long algebraic proofs as so many sqiggles. Really good (imo) math is explained geometrically/visually. Yeah, I know that might make an engineer raise an eyebrow, but I'm going to trust that experience with your scouts has shown you a hands(eyes)-on approach can be more effective than reading the manual for those with a modality preference. :)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">To that end, I recently discovered a youtube channel called Mathologer that has an inspiring speaker and a visual explanation of some pretty cool math stuff</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC1_uAIS3r8Vu6JjXWvastJg">https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC1_uAIS3r8Vu6JjXWvastJg</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">But I digress, for I want this thread to continue along the line of using the new tools such as OpenAI to create companion bots. </p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">Are we talking about highfalutin ideas followed by QED... or actually outlining a plan to make a deliverable product? I hate to tell you, this is isn't an easy road from great idea through hand-wavey step to buttload of money. I know that is your oft-stated motivation for doing things</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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