#Gödel

Jose Jorge

josejorgexl

And the series continues!Last week was about the history behind one of the greatest discoveries of all times: Gödel's theoremsToday, I'm going to explain those theorems along with some misconceptions

Jose Jorge

josejorgexl

Today I want to start a potentially little series of threads about one of my biggest passions...Gödel's theoremsOne of the biggest discoveries of all time that I'm sure will blow

Willis Domingo

WillisDomingo

1/ A few random and very disjointed thoughts: 1) There is logical ontology and there is physical ontology. An object of logical ontology is anything that can be designated by

Owain Evans

OwainEvans_UK

1/ Second thread on exciting philosophy from outside philosophy departments...https://twitter.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1326645830963634179 2/ Gerry Sussman. Hofstadter said Gödel invented LISP in proving the incompleteness theorem. Sussman

pete wolfendale

deontologistics

Since I've just done a deep dive into CS on my timeline, it might help if I frame a question that I think you need to appreciate all the relevant

Albert Pinto

70sBachchan

RIP Freeman Dyson. Breathtakingly original mathematician & physicist who also wrote beautifully about our place in the world. His essays on the morality of strategic bombing & nuclear weapons, the

Kate Taggart

qkate

This is terrible, and I fear is one story among increasingly many.Time for one of my esoteric rants, I see An uncomfortable fact about modern American academia is that we

Carlos E. Perez

IntuitMachine

Walter Pitts, the other half of the duo that formulated the first model of an artificial neuron, burned his PhD thesis and drunk himself to death. Why? Ludwig Wittgenstein, after

Alexander Kruel

XiXiDu

What's the most counterintuitive fact of all of mathematics, computer science, and physics? Here are some suggestions I received. Let's start with some of the classics:Monty Hall problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_prob

RIVAL VOICES

nosilverv

in honor of v-@krzhang and @visakanv's requests: 100-tweet @threadapalooza of things that get me going IN DIFFERENT VOICES - i think voices would be unclear and hard to tell apart

Basil 🔬🔎

Basiluisco

Hilo recopilatorio de curiosidades, excentrícidades y locuras de grandes científicos de la historia. Tycho Bache (astrónomo) contrajo una infección de vejiga después de aguantar las ganas de ir a orinar

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