Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Jun8 4928 days ago
Here's a link to a paper on this: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4074. Explaining it is well beyond my capacity, though.
2 comments

For a layman the abstract sounds like a computer-generated hoax.
You could say that about any field that one is unfamiliar with. Heck, the most basic art concepts could seem like so to a blind man. Mathematicians have worked for ages on simplifying the concepts so every term is there because it helps a trained mathematician understand what is going on.
It seems genuine, or at least more sophisticated than computer-generated abstracts usually are. It seems to repeatedly mention the same concepts which is something usually lacking in computer-generated abstracts, though it does mix seemingly tenuously related topics.

I have no idea what any of it means though.

The abstract, although it's also far beyond me, actually sounds even more impressive than the article lets on.