#galois

[womenclature]

What is the evidence that they don’t have the required training? These DOGE employees aren’t just your random average coders. They’re some of the best and brightest analytical minds of their generation. Why should they not be able to understand the government’s computer software systems and properly analyze their data? In some ways, these employees have handled far more complex projects in the past… I think the post shown here is not really being fair or taking enough information into account before forming an opinion. I think OP *wants* to believe that anything having to do with Trump is evil, and will therefore ignore evidence to the contrary.

The DOGE Team

Here are some excerpts from an article that shares more about the team.

"Edward Coristine [19] ... is a college student at Northeastern University in Boston. He’s already interned at Musk’s Neuralink and is seen as an expert in his field. “

"Akash Bobba [21] … previously interned at Meta and Palantir, and his background in investment engineering and data analysis makes him a valuable asset in streamlining government operations.” (Akash is also Indian.)

"Ethan Shaotran [22] is the founder of Energize AI, an AI-driven startup, and a senior at Harvard University. With a background in computing and autonomous vehicles, he’s a perfect fit… ...having participated in the xAI hackathon.”

"Luke Farritor [23] is no stranger to high-pressure problem-solving. A former intern at SpaceX … Luke’s AI skills were on full display when he helped decipher ancient Vesuvius scrolls” Please allow me to add something here about that Vesuvius Challenge. Source Farritor figured out how to read these extremely fragile burnt scrolls without unrolling them. He solved a problem that experts has been puzzling over for years.

"Contestants had until the end of 2023 to decipher one of around 1,000 Herculaneum Papyri scrolls recovered from the library of the Villa dei Papyri, which was decimated by the same 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius that froze the city of Pompeii in time. Discovered in the eighteenth century, the excavated scrolls have been sitting in museums and universities around Europe, unable to be touched “without them turning to ash,” Farritor said.”

“Left: the scroll read by the winners. Right: result of an attempt to physically unroll a scroll. (Vesuvius Challenge)” "Farritor explained to me that his AI program took the image of the scroll and chopped it up into “tiny bits of 100 pixels by 100 pixels. And then the machine learning algorithm looks at each one and it asks itself, do I think there’s ink here? Or do I think there’s no ink here?” By compiling these tiles, the AI program can do what was impossible only a few years ago: read the scroll.”

Moving on… (Back to our prior article.)

5. "Gautier Cole Killian [24] … brings his expertise from the high-frequency trading world, where he worked at Jump Trading. … Gautier’s background in algorithms and financial markets positions him to make big changes in how government funds are managed."

6. "Gavin Kliger [25] ... the oldest of the group, has a unique role in DOGE, having made waves by sending a controversial email that shook up the USAID staff. A graduate of Berkeley, Gavin’s no stranger to big decisions and leadership roles. His willingness to leave a seven-figure salary to join Musk’s mission underscores his dedication to reforming government systems.”

My Point

As we can see, all of these young men are quite capable. I think that many posts on Tumblr, like the ones shown in the original post above, oversimplify and misconstrue the actual facts in favor of supporting a more shocking and upsetting narrative. Please take time to review some of the information related to the claims you’re seeing. Take a little time to decide whether you actually want to incorporate a claim into your worldview. Don’t blindly accept anything.

“But these boys are too young!”

-In 1777, when Alexander Hamilton was (at most) 22 years old, "he had captured the attention of the army’s commander-in-chief, General George Washington, who gave him a position on his staff.” (Source) -In 1797, when Gauss was only 20, his "doctoral thesis of 1797 gave a proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra.” (Source) -In 1773, when Mozart was just 17, he had already composed his very famous Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183 (Youtube video link if you’d like to listen).

-Évariste Galois only made it to 20 y.o., but he had already made groundbreaking contributions to mathematics by the time he died in a pistol duel in 1832. "While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem that had been open for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra.” [Wikipedia] -Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) Wrote the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine, making her the world’s first computer programmer at the age of 25 (working with Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine).

-By the age of 25, Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE) had already conquered most of the known world, including Persia and Egypt, creating one of the largest empires in history.

-By the time he was 25, Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) had developed his laws of planetary motion, which were foundational in understanding how planets orbit the sun.

Conclusion

To quote Akash Bobba at his UC Berkeley graduation in 2021: "We live in an age where simplicity reigns supreme, where 30-second TikToks and 280-character tweets come to define our identities,” he then said. “This increasing willingness to simplify even the most complex narratives into sensational tidbits, perpetuates misinformation and in the process divides the communities, families, and relationships we cherish. What’s the solution, you might ask? Seek discomfort.”

It's a heist. Elon is the fraud. DOGE is the fraud. The coders destroying databases are the waste.

[the-time-are-ending]

a drawing of Doth, the masterpiece

@thedawningofthehour

So, I was reading Third From the Son, DOTH, by Faiakishi, and I got to that infamous moment where Galois yells at Leo about his brother being dead and being consumed by crabs at the bottom of the ocean. If in itself the scene of him on the verge of a mental breakdown due to the sadness, confusion and guilt (among other emotions) that thinking about Donatello causes him and his ending brought me strong images, this definitely cements them. As is my custom, I had to use my older sibling's cell phone to draw.

I did my best, don't strangle me too hard. I tried!

I really like this work and its construction, not only of characters, but of worlds. I had made other drawings before, but I didn't dare to upload them. hope you like.

[wafflesorpancakes555]

Just learnt about this dude Galois, absolutely crazy. so basically, he:

- tries to get into "Ecole Polytechnique", the French school for science at the time, and fails

-publishes several papers on polynomials

-his father dies

-tries again (and fails) to get into the Ecole

-publishes several papers basically founding group theory

-attends a lesser school, gets kicked out and eventually arrested for political beliefs

-died in a duel shortly after he got out of prison

AT THE AGE OF 20

[miscellaneousmathematics]

[libriaco]

Non c'è tempo

Évariste Galois Parigi, ospedale Cochin, 31 maggio 1832. Non ha più tempo. Muore di peritonite alle dieci del mattino. All’alba del giorno prima un misterioso sfidante gli ha trapassato l’addome con la spada e lo ha lasciato in fin di vita sulla riva dello stagno della Glacière, che ha visto tutto ma non dice niente. La notte del 29, indovinando l’esito del duello, l’ha passata in bianco. Ha pregato che quel giorno l’alba si dimenticasse di alzarsi. Ha scritto al signor Chevalier la lettera più trafelata che si ricordi, cercando di riempire di tutto il suo sapere quei pochi fogli, in cui non sta. «C’è qualcosa da completare in questa dimostrazione», ha annotato febbrilmente qua e là. Gli manca il tempo per diventare un genio dell’algebra, che in arabo, per un capriccio delle lettere, vuol dire «riduzione delle ossa dislocate». Gli mancano quattro mesi per compiere ventun anni. Domani lo accompagnerà alla tomba quella povera madre che, forse per mancanza di tempo, lui obbligava a fargli da sguattera. Se n’è andato presto. È la prova che nel tempo abbiamo poco tempo.

E. Baroncelli, Mosche d'inverno. 271 morti in due o tre pose, Palermo, Sellerio, 2010

[timideartilleur]

Imagine how today's world could have been if Galois had won the duel.

[suparanoid]

wdym you don't want to talk about galois theory the whole night with radiohead's songs in the background ?

[reesespiecesofart]

AHHHH SCREAMING OVER THIS CHAPTER (and every chapter) PLEASE GO READ IT

kudos to my friend @thedawningofthehour

[dehnsurgeon]

I am working on expository writing this summer - head over to my handwritten (and in the works) blog to read about the analogy between covering spaces and field extensions.

[falseandrealultravival]

Science education should be mandatory in university education

In my view, the prosperity of IT in India and China is superficial. It all boils down to the absence of any Fields Medal winners in the mathematics that underlies computers in these two countries.

When I told a Japanese blog friend about this, he replied, "No, Indians have produced presidents of MS and Google, and SEs who graduated from Indian Institutes of Technology are highly paid." However, I had written to him in advance as a premise that "India is inferior mathematically, not in terms of economic success," but he ignored it.

So I compared Ramanujan, a leading mathematician from India, and Galois from France, and wrote that there was a huge gap between the two in their achievements, and that Ramanujan was far inferior. He didn't listen to the logic, moved on to other problems, and fled.

He is a graduate of the private Keio University, which is said to be an excellent university in Japan, and is a liberal arts major. As a common practice of this kind of student, they only trust what they hear and their ears, and do not try to think for themselves. Such graduates will only cause harm to the world.

Science courses should definitely be included in university education. A liberal arts-only education is 'harmful and useless'.

Rei Morishita

大学教育は、理科系教育を必須とすべし

私は、インド、中国のITの隆盛は、表面的なものだと見ている。コンピュータの基礎になる数学において、この両国にはフィールズ賞受賞者が皆無であることがすべてを語っている。

さて私は日本のブログ友に、この話をしたが、「いや、インド人はMSやグーグルの社長を輩出し、インドの工科大学卒業のSEは高給取りだ」と返した。もっとも、私は前提として「経済的な成功ではなく、数学的に見て、インドが劣っている」と彼には予め書いたのだが、彼は無視した。

��こで私はインドの代表的な数学者：ラマヌジャンと、フランスのガロアを比較し、両者はその業績において雲泥の差があり、ラマヌジャンがはるかに劣る、と書いた。彼はその論理に耳を貸さず、別の問題にすり替えて、逃げまわった。

彼は、日本では優秀な大学と言われる私立の慶応大学の卒業生で、文科系である。この種の学生の通弊として、聞いたこと、耳のみ信用し、自分の頭で考えようとはしない。こんな卒業生は、世の中に害悪を流すだけである。

大学教育には、理科系の教程を、必ず組み込むべきであろう。文科系だけの教養は、「有害無益」だ。

[zorocomunista]

me at college: okay but how does this subject relate to evariste galois

guy who only thinks about his interests when anything happens: getting a lot of 'my interests' vibes from this

[primeideal]

I was delighted to find your piece on the funeral of Nicolas Galois - what is your source for this? I'd like to be able to cite it (all the better if it is in French). Hwyl fawr - Roger.

Based on a quick search of the books I would have had access to at that time, my best guess is that it was Laura Toti Rigatelli's biography (which I read in English). I'm not 100% sure on that, though. Good luck!

(Assuming this is the post in question.)

[zorocomunista]

gay as fuck to leave all your notes in the hands of your dearest friend in the hopes that he can make sense of all your mess after youre gone while you go die in a duel for someone else

[cupcakeslushie]

Big congrats to @thedawningofthehour for completing your second massive book in The Dawning of the Hour series!!! This is a scene from Chapter 39 of Third From the Son, and I could scream about more, but Im scared to say any spoilers from the very last chapter! THAT ENDING!!!!

I can’t wait for book three, but for now Fai, take you a well deserved break!✨

Also very very very belated birthday!

[libriaco]

So di non sapere

Purtroppo, la gente stenta a rendersi conto che i libri più preziosi e più utili sono quelli in cui l’autore non esita a confessare francamente la sua ignoranza, perché il maggior danno che questi può fare al lettore è di nascondergli le difficoltà.

Évariste Galois, citato da L. Infeld, [Whom the Gods Love. The Story of Evariste Galois], Tredici ore per l'immortalità, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1957 [Trad. G. Galteri]

[bagalois]

i really enjoy this font