Florida rejects math books with 'references' to critical race theory

[old as dirt]

18. My best guess is that some Fundamentalist saw something that offended him.

In my experience, Fundamentalists don't believe in many of the entities that I believe in, which is fine until they try to Cancel my Culture with their intolerance.

Then their religion becomes too small for me.

Oracles Are Subtle But Not Malicious

Scott Aaronson
University of Waterloo

Abstract

Theoretical computer scientists have been debating the role of oracles since the 1970’s. This paper illustrates both that oracles can give us nontrivial insights about the barrier problems in circuit complexity, and that they need not prevent us from trying to solve those problems.

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https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/subtle.pdf

Of course, it could be the Physicists, but they are generally more willing to accept that we come from different cultures with different beliefs, even if we do sometimes give them a hard time for not believing in the same things that we believe in, and vis-versa.

The odds that P=NP is 3% | Scott Aaronson and Lex Fridman

"...but because we are mathematicians, or descended from mathematicians..."

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler