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Interesting Concepts:

  1. Occam’s razor

Beautiful Quotes: (unknown or falsely attributed authors are not included)

  1. ‘Education Is Not the Learning of Facts, But the Training of the Mind To Think.’ — Einstein

  2. ‘Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number-theory the queen of mathematics.’ — Gauss

  3. ‘In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.’ — Neumann

  4. ‘Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.’ — King

  5. ‘Ask the right question is more significant than blindly try to solve a question.’ — Musk

  6. ‘If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.’

  7. ‘Two things could be equivalent, however they look very differently. Two things could be different, however they look very similar.’ — from propositional logic

  8. ‘Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.’ — Russell

Random thoughts:

  1. For a perfectly rational mathematician or computer scientist that graspes the essense of algorithm/optimization, why would that person not always follow the optimal strategy when solving tasks in real life? The first major assumption is that for a single objective optimization problem, we suppose the objective is THE goal. While in reality, this objective needs to be justified most of the time, and the justification of the goal is not easier than solving the problem itself. If we resort to multi-objective optimization, things get more interesting and complex. However, we are probably wasting our time and missing some other beautiful parts of our lives.