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#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media

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Theorem Provers

Do you think math is fundamental to our universe and we're just like slowly trying to understand these patterns? Or is it discovered? Is it just a little game that we play amongst ourselves to try to fit little patterns to the world? That's the physicist question. But everything comes back to it. I mean, all the physics, the fact that the universe is, well, okay, it's a complicated question. How often do you think, how deeply does this result describe the fundamental reality of nature? So the reason I hesitated, because it's something I taught to seminar and did a little work on biological algorithms.

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