/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11059586
Yeah, Urs is based. I wish he wouldn't do all the "nice" topology stuff in lectures that seem to take him quite away from field theory. But that might be debatable.

Also
https://youtu.be/ARarjQYOhA4

>>10955391
2010 era internet physics was a good time, when all the infinite resources of the web were just finalizing its emergence and you had 't Hooft citing Ron Maimon in his papers. Or maybe I'm just old and nostalgic.

Like with the online academia culture in general, I find Neumaier pretty tough going, but that might be a matter of interpretation.
He has an educated opinion on everything and I never saw him making any formal mistake. I expect it's worth reading into those papers. He also words just 15 minutes from my apartment actually, but I've never met him.

On that former note, and coming back to OP forum comparison...
There's a similarity between the mathematically minded community and open source developments: Both have those cliques and niches and they want to reel people in. But whereas it's often pleasant to get into a niche programming language, online communities and hacker spaces, when you want to learn some math, you usually have to put on some skin when you ask a question. People get really angry if you misinterpret the intricate of the topics they work on. I'd rather get called a brainlet by an anon than offend the high score PhD student who feels like they need to defend their reputation and exotic subject that they hope will at one point get some sort of relevancy.