Exactly. The 1-to-1 tutor-style education was also mainly responsible for OxBridge producing some of the greatest minds to have come out of Europe. (I am not sure but I think to some extent this is still the case at Cambridge?)

this is fair only if i have enough time to decipher.

Every language has its own quirks. In Chinese, you don't have this a/an difficulty, but the grammatical tenses are so fluid that a lot of contextual cues are needed to make sense whether "I went" [zoule 走了] means I really went in the past, or I am going now (ignoring the semantic diff as well, since zou also means to pass away).

A more natural way to see it is that Chinese does not really have tenses in the first place.

Actually, it does, it's just not so fixed about them.

For instance: "I have gone", "I had gone" are said the same way, but there is a slight difference when you say "I have been going" and there is really no way to say "I had been going" unless contextual tokens are added onto.

Talking about frontier mathematics? Even the common for-mere-mortals version of mathematics is totally inaccessible to most people. Even to those who want to really learn it.

Take a good look at the textbooks that teach mathematics and tell me I am wrong.

If there is any barrier, it is not intentional, I assure you. Math is just hard.

It is but not so hard as it appears now.

Part of the difficulty is artificial.

Whether intentional or not, it's there. I have yet to see a textbook that really taught learners as they deserve to be taught. Some are good in some aspects, but a perfect textbook does not exist.

"Here are some theorems and some proofs and here are some ideas left as exercise to the student". smh.

There are many amazing Youtube channels that explain complex math well, for example https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown

I am well aware of all the sites and YT, what you probably thought I live in a cave? I taught mathematics at Tsinghua for over a decade, so I know what I'm talking about.

3B1Br is great but only for a 'hobbyist'. There's no systematic progression to teach from A to Z. Also, you can't learn mathematics just by watching videos.

... and quaternions?

The books exist and are possible to understand. They teach maths at most universities. You should try it, learning is fun.

please have a look at my profile before making silly comments. :)

I don't see how your profile possibly could make your point valid.

OK.

Try university courses rather than books.

Yeah like that didn't occur to me. LOL.

The more salient point is why is this happening.

That is to say, it also mean less and less younger people, as 'modernity' induces fewer marriages and fewer children.

It's pretty easy to follow if you know which neoliberal polity forced Japan to abandon traditionalism.

yep. That, and also the porn.

This is great. I can't imagine why would anyone be unappreciative of this. Since AI is going to be here anyway, why not make it safer and more useful?

However, this also means acknowledging that AI will never be error-free (which is the truth; all AI is heuristics-based).

Attempts to tackle why in science are actually, underneath, just a how-it-really-happens, or what-happens answers.

No scientist can explain the why, and most can't even explain the how (Heisenberg uncertainty, for one accessible example).

The fact that i am being downvoted on my previous comment means i am on to sth. Truth maybe?

I didn't really understand what you wrote in your comment above. Re-phrase a bit maybe?

Sure. In the first comment: science can only explain what happens, and even that, with no certainty.

In the second comment: my first comment was getting downvoted heavily by the pseudo-quacks whose religion is science.

This thread, which I read most of, reads like a 'how to be a language-war thread without explicitly being one'. :)

Just use the language the (keeps putting) puts bread on your table. All languages have their own 'baggage'.

Wrt to AI, I agree with pron's comments that for very large code bases, AI can't do 4$hit.

Orwell is claimed to have written his books directed at the other side of the Curtain, but in fact, he was merely predicting the effect of power at the hands of the few self-elected (due to randomness -> wealth --> power).

"All animals are equal, some animals more equal than others."

Is it because they're using LLMs? LOL. This is just the beginning.