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Teachers/Professors always pretend that you can find it, eg. you get it as a homework. And it works that way, yes, kind of - as an excercise and for "relatively simple" challenges. But for tough problems it's a "memorization of the solution challenge" and not one where you lose too much time trying to figure them out. This particular one makes it pretty obvious as well: Even understanding the solution is a challenge.

Today, there is at least one of the most advanced Neural Networks entering each car: A human being. If we could just implement the AI to add to this person and not replace it...

It didn't change the world. The iPhone did 10 years later. I guess the article is of interest because it has this wrong claim weaved in and even at it's time the "Nokia Communicator" wasn't a big success. Maybe we didn't know what FAANG-like success looks like at that time and everyone thought "Nokia is such a respectable, successful company in Scandinavia". Probably the article is of interest now because, we didn't see 2006 (year the iPhone came out) and all the years after.

Shrinking a laptop to the size of a telephone wasn't the right thing to do.

GBA = Gameboy Advanced

The solution is great, but it shows a fundamental flaw in mathematics, that I am thinking about a lot: You have to be smart, no doubt, but you also have to know the answer to get to the solution - It requires so many steps first until "the solution / the proof is clear". If you go down a different route (as I would have done), then you'd likely not succeed and certainly be in "rough" unknow territory, making it difficult for others to help or assess your approach. And this is expected: The hard problems will take the smartest people to solve eventually. I wish we could be more honest about that, that Math is a lot about "memorizing problems". And that was always the case (over history): At some point in history all this was a frontier. And there will be people willing to fight on this frontier and I am not disputing that intelligence/logical thinking is also required. I am just wondering if all this couldn't be put to more practical use. But then maybe it is and as fascinating as it is, most of us move on from Math and work on real world engineering tasks, eventually and from time to time still look back to these problems, as we do today. And absorb them, adding them to our repertoire and looking/assessing for real world application, which likely is limited / none.

When people fight, then the alternative (not fighting) must be (or at least seems to be) worse for them. So what is it, that is so bad, that fighting (it) is worthwhile? Western societies fought these wars, too (WW2) and the outcome was clear: Equality / individual liberty and freedom, in short "left" leaning values, rather than "right", which would be dictatorship/Nazis and conservatism. Today these societies are in decline, get replaced by foreigners and they have accepted this (because of the lost world wars). This result is visible to Afghan people. They don't want or share these values. They value their own people and their own offspring more than foreigners. They are right-leaning/conservatives. They don't want their women to "invent stuff", maybe they even doubt that they can. They certainly don't want them to. They want a setup of their society to maximize the prosperity of their own people: Women as housewifes, having a lot of kids with them and women taking care of all of them, while the husband protects the family (men are on average stronger than women, which unfortunately became a topic of debate in the west). While the west abolishes itself and replaces itself, they don't want that and they also don't want that to be forced upon them. It also imposes such a great threat to their society (it's extinction, rather than it prospering), that it is worth fighting it. It is the choice between certain death and likely death. And they chose "likely death". In the face of extinction they chose "(very) likely death" and they won, which I am very happy about. I wish Afghanistan, the Taliban and it's people a successful and prosperous future!

By fighting and winning this war, Afghanistan was actually able to export a lot of people to other countries (as refugees) and keep their own country for themselves, which is (turned out to be) -only because they won the war- a double win for them. So the result "winning this war" was very attractive to them, which ofc boosted their motivation (to do so). What's the motivation for men in having women do men's stuff? Would men really fight for that?

Media was once so money intensive, that no privat endeavour could provide it, thus the public media was created - payed by the public in general with a fee/taxes. When the private TV/Radio came up, the question was if they could survive. Advertisment money is good money, which we came to know much later, when those streams of revenue past over to the big internet companies (mainly Google and Facebook) and they thrived. Today we still see the first generation of media being still around ("public"), the second "private" also struggling and we have a lot of private persons (eg. "YouTubers") making big money, today. There are huge shifts and ignoring that is probably because of the "if your job depends on it". So the encumbents bent and twist themselves, like CNN ("fake news") and claiming things like "freedom of the press is in decline". No!,... times change and we need to and are all adapting and shifting. Except for those still working in the "private" and "public" news sector. With it also it's characteristics change: You rather follow the person(journalist), who is an expert in his field and someone you like and trust, like "Tim Dodd, the everyday Astronaut" (reporting on SpaceX) and others with bigger reach and smaller, weirder and less weird, with more attack surface and less. Some of them get themselves into trouble and need to move to other platforms or vanish completely. I remember Anonymous being expelled from Facebook and moving over to the Russian VKontakte network around 2015. Some stuff seems to only surface on 4chan. Bans or defunding of channels/outlets do get noticed and discussed in those "alternative" communities, or on the original platform/community itself. There is no hiding, it's getting less and less, actually. The freedom of the press got actually... democratized.