José Carlos García Muñoz

A note to U2’s audience from Bono: "We are in the studio, still working towards a noisy, messy, 'unreasonably colour xerox’ album to play LIVE… which is where U2 lives. We still look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance against all this awfulness on our small screens. These are for sure ‘wilderness years’ for so many of us looking at the mayhem out there in the world. It’s a time that has our band digging deeper into our lives to find a wellspring of songs to try to meet the moment… With Easter Lily we ended up asking very personal questions like: Are our own relationships up to these challenging times? How hard do you fight for friendship? Can our faith survive the mangling of meaning that those algorithms love to reward? Is all religion rubbish and still ripping us apart…? Or are there answers to find in its crevices? Are there ceremonies, rituals, dances that we might be missing in our lives? From the rite of Spring to Easter and its promise of rebirth and renewal… Patti Smith’s album Easter gave me so much hope when it was released in 1978. I wasn’t yet 18. The title is a nod to her. We will attempt hoopla and fanfare at a later date to remind the rest of the world we exist but in the meantime… this is between you and us." Easter Lily EP available now. u2.komi.io

I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself. -- Richard Feynman

That would make the conductor of Beethoven….into Beethoven. I play Vivaldi. I execute. But the ideas are absolutely his. Not mine. I hate to keep making this point, but we are living through this backlash against thinkers, ideas, and non market contributions. It’s suicidal.

It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time. -- Paul Erdős

"Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out."

📁 Terence Tao, mathematician and Fields Medalist, says AI may look like it reasons, but it does not understand. Language models imitate the steps of human reasoning without solid foundations. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they collapse entirely. The output looks convincing, but it is fragile. It feels like understanding, yet it is probability pretending to think.

What do you think? ✍️

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. - Isaac Newton

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. - Richard Feynman

In 1697, Isaac Newton received Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit to solve the problem of the brachistochrone. Newton got the message on 29th Jan and solved the problem the same night before going to bed.

Mathematician G.H. Hardy on proof by contradiction

This is Feynman's last blackboard - "What I cannot create I do not understand"

Physicist Paul Dirac was known for his extreme taciturnity. There's a story about him saying: I was taught never to start a sentence unless I knew how to finish it.

Anecdotally, when Oppenheimer was working at Göttingen, Dirac supposedly came to him one day and said: "Oppenheimer, they tell me you are writing poetry. I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say... something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand." -- mentioned in Brighter Than a Thousand Suns : A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists (1958) by Robert Jungk 📷 Paul Dirac (center) with Director Robert Oppenheimer (left) and Abraham Pais (right), Professor in the School of Mathematics (1950–63), during afternoon tea at the Institute For Advanced Study, November 1947.

The Road to Reality by Sir Roger Penrose ✍️

Sir Isaac Newton's handwritten Trinity college notes put together between 1661-1665 while he was an undergraduate student at that same college. Page one reads, “Not fit to be printed. 25 Sep 1727” written by Thomas Pellet. 📷 Cambridge, Trinity College

Happy 381st Birthday to Sir Isaac Newton! An English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author whose mind unlocked the laws of motion and universal gravitation, and is recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time. Sir Isaac Newton worked 7 days a week, 18 hours a day. He had given up his personal life, he probably never had any intention of getting married or raising a family. He wanted to devote all his life to the works of science and the pursuit of mathematics and so he did.

President Joe Biden has announced the recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The awards will be presented today. Bono is one of the recipients of the Medal. Press release here: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. -- Stephen Hawking