@JohnPhilpin I was studying it in 2nd year Uni - getting 80% without trying but spending my time questioning what use is multiplication in more than 3 dimensions.
Well the last 3 years have been a strong lesson in that hubris !! And I’ve learnt a lot about the formalisation of Agentic systems.
@JohnPhilpin that’s pretty mind blowing. I am more of an ardent Applied Mathematician than a Pure Mathematician.
I think the strongest example (embarrassing in a funny way with a not-so-humble brag) is my view on Matrix Multiplication.
@JohnPhilpin I get that, if it’s important it’ll come back!
In the mean time I think you are saying that there are a lot of known unknowns… Like there is something over there but we don’t know what it is…?
I responded immediately and will take a moment to think about it as well, then come back
@mariaa.bsky.social Doing similar! My current to do list:
matt.thompson.gr/2026/01/23/t…
@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social The fidelity of the connections is certainly impressive with embeddings - the benefit of dimensionality!
Slightly related: are you aware of anything that maps concepts in embeddings to external, lower dimension concepts? E.g. the OR logical operator