thank you paul! if i squint the right way, the article very funny - and that has little to do with grothendieck. confusing the speed of light with the speed of sound is like something from capek or jonathan swift. and there is something like that in every line! huawei hired a fields medalist to build AI toposes! but it's allright because huawei is not a communist enterprise but a self-governing corporation!... speaking of swift, isn't it remarkable that the ways people misunderstand each other were so vividly clear in the XVIII century that they could be illustrated even for children, by gulliver's travels. nowadays it is sort of the opposite. if there is any doubt about anything, just ask the fact-checkers and they will check the facts for you. vaughan said that topos is a generalized universe of sets. if you are not sure, the fact checkers will confirm the truth of the matter for you. deligne is not interested in grothendieck because mathematics is a social enterprise. if anyone doubts that, a well-designed poll will resolve the matter. we understand grothendieck's math, psychologists understand his behavior, the gentle writer of this article is not an expert in any of those things but he understands grothendieck's writing. together, we understand everything. "just do your research" tweets elon musk. and feel the vibrations of fibrations :))) -- dusko On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 10:13 AM Paul Taylor <categories@paultaylor.eu> wrote:

An article about Alexander Grothiendieck has just appeared in the Guardian online newspaper. Be warned, it contains some seriously weird stuff! Toposes get a mention, though "not as we know them", along with Huawei, AI and Olivia Caramello. Beyond that, I'm not going to comment!

Since Microsoft mangles web addresses, here is the address with the punctuation removed:

www theguardian com science article 2024 aug 31 alexander-grothendieck-huawei-ai-artificial-intelligence

Paul Taylor.

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