Via Sarada: Professor Babai of the University of Chicago recently made an alleged breakthrough in theoretical computer science which concerns the problem of graph isomorphism. In lecture, we have often been told that there are massive networks in biology and social media, to only name two areas, that can not be effectively visualized because of the sheer mass of links and nodes; these networks can grow to be so convoluted that computers occasionally have a difficult time telling if two networks are, in fact, identical or not in an acceptably short time.

Via Wired : A pure mathematician, when stuck on the problem under study, often decides to narrow the problem further and so avoid the obstruction. An applied mathematician interprets being stuck as an indication that it is time to learn more mathematics and find better tools.

Via [NYT](When a Unicorn Start-Up Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt): This article shows the painful reality of employees who worked at a $1B valued start-up, that went south. Instead of they getting paid to work, the employees ended up paying to work for the start-up.

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. - Bertrand Russell

“You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again. Shall I say it again? In order to arrive there, To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.