Or the only person who phrases your issue this way) so many times I’ve found out that I just state my problem in an unusual way

They talk about many things, but the one that stands out is incentives. There is a lot of competition in academia, publish or perish, with big prizes, so some people are taking shortcuts.

These were great, really enjoyed them, especially the coverage of the Data Colada story

Probably because they reveal that fact to you?

Can get your name on an academic paper

“Damn you, Lucius!”

Toasty!

Hmm, how would they even “choose”? Is it like, in different compartments?.. And wouldn’t the material go bad after all that time?

Another fun fact about bats that will stick with you

Yeah, you probably learned about bat’s dicks more than you ever wanted to know. You’re welcome.

First it makes you laugh, then it makes you think

ScienceAlert is a genuinely decent source of science news, I have been following it for a long time.

That’s a good way to think about the actual practical question this result can be used for.

For me, it was just fascinating to learn about Ramsey theorem in the first place, not even this new development. I’ve never heard of it. I couldn’t find any specific practical applications for these type of results, but it is just so elegant.

Probably these two paragraphs sum up the background for the problem nicely

A common analogy for Ramsey theory requires us to consider how many people to invite to a party so that at least three people will either already be acquainted with each other or at least three people will be total strangers to each other.

Here, the Ramsey number, r, is the minimum number of people needed at the party so that either s people know each other or t people don’t know each other. This can be written as r(s,t), and we know the answer to r(3,3) = 6.

I was more interested in finding out about Ramsey theorem, though, rather than this new result.

Even the result with 6 people is super neat. Sent me down a rabbit hole of things like Ramsey theorem and the pigeonhole principle. On a side note, the guy Ramsey was a fucking genius.

Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss

Oh well, maybe LK 100 will show more promise

Maybe the technology wasn’t available?

A little weird why this only got published in PNAS and not something like Science, but hopefully the results is legit. What happened with that superconductor, btw? Did not replicate?

Laserpunk?