Links: Patience, Moonbeam (+3)
- I am really enjoying the new album Patience, Moonbeam by indie pop band Great Grandpa this week (AM / S). It feels like a throwback to the melodic, ambitiously arranged sort of indie pop music that I loved as a teenager. Thoroughly recommended.
- I started reading Proofs and Refutations by Imre Latakos (a PDF is available here). It’s a great look at how mathematicians think and in particular how mathematical arguments, known as proofs, are devised. It’s interesting to read this book in the age of artificial intelligence where the current trend in mathematics is “formal verification”: using formal languages to allow computers to verify mathematical statements. The philosophy in this book makes me a little sad that we may be losing something when we do this.
- This poem by Charles Bukowski was new to me and really resonated.
- I enjoyed reading about this town in Japan where Pokemon-like trading cards based on old men in the local community have gone viral among young people.
Photograph: Cats in the grass in spring at my old apartment in Tel Aviv, 2018.