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I don’t just not know things, I don’t even know how much I don’t know.

This is beautiful but so far beyond my comprehension:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-decades-old-conway-knot-problem-20200519/


 
Posted : 24/05/2020 8:52 am
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Meh!


 
Posted : 24/05/2020 10:11 am
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Two dimensional spheres in four dimensional space? They is slice.
Wooosssh.


 
Posted : 24/05/2020 12:06 pm
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If I could have one wish it would be to have the level of intelligence required to understand this sort of stuff. As it is, it just looks like a collection of randomly selected words thrown on the page.


 
Posted : 24/05/2020 12:13 pm
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it just looks like a collection of randomly selected words thrown on the page.

+1 🙁


 
Posted : 24/05/2020 12:32 pm
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I get lost after a bowline with a stopper knot or a figure eight.


 
Posted : 24/05/2020 12:38 pm
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Clever stuff yes, but she rides a bike with open toe sandals and no helmet.


 
Posted : 24/05/2020 12:40 pm
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Clever stuff yes, but she rides a bike with open toe sandals and no helmet.

😍 Babe!!!


 
Posted : 24/05/2020 12:57 pm
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Wow!
For solving a problem I don't understand so....+1 for 'it just looks like a collection of randomly selected words thrown on the page'.


 
Posted : 24/05/2020 1:00 pm
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Can she explain how earphones that are left out carefully untangled become a tangled know of wire overnight?


 
Posted : 24/05/2020 1:04 pm
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@frankconway are you related?


 
Posted : 24/05/2020 1:07 pm
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Can she explain how earphones that are left out carefully untangled become a tangled know of wire overnight?

... and how duvet covers turn themselves inside out in the washing machine, but don't come out the right way if you put them in inside out?

Lisa Piccirillo: So smart it makes my brain hurt just thinking about it, and she rides a bike - my ideal woman right there.


 
Posted : 24/05/2020 6:42 pm
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For those whose eyes glaze over trying to read / understand the  linked article , theres a picture of a pretty girl on a bike 3/4's way down to focus on instead.

Thank me later.


 
Posted : 24/05/2020 6:49 pm
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Ta. Brilliant at mathematics but still hasn't got to grips with efficient use of bicycle gears.


 
Posted : 25/05/2020 1:17 pm
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Read it, watched the video, still can't see where the rabbit,the tree and the hole come in. Baffled


 
Posted : 25/05/2020 1:32 pm
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Can she explain how earphones that are left out carefully untangled become a tangled know of wire overnight?

Quantum, innit.


 
Posted : 26/05/2020 8:52 pm

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