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Oh my God you guys have to google one time pad decryption for God level shitpost check the images

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To my knowledge, one time pad decryption (bottom group) is impossible to break, as would be extrapolation of a truly random sequence.

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You mean that it's impossible to break? What are your thoughts on it?

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Yes, thanks, "impossible to break". I fixed it.

If the one-time pad is constructed from a truly random sequence, then it would be impossible to break. Of course, I don't discount the existence of remote viewing and other forms of ESP, but I will counter that that isn't mathematical code breaking.

There are also more existential questions about whether the universe contains randomness.

There are also deeper

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Existence is crazy and the depth is so incredibly far away what we can comprehend.

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Hairy ball theorum?

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It's real, I have proof.

I have no idea wtf that is lol

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I’ve seen nearly all of that trench, in person. Two or three are not familiar. The others are.

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How involved have you gotten with Hairy Balls?

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Easiest answer:

Roughly stated, it’s the reason you can’t multiply two vectors in the plane. The result wouldn’t “behave” right.

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You can't brush the hair of a coconut (without a cowlick). But you can on a doughnut.

Interesting.

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Wow. I've some knowledge past the "serious math" gap, but not that much. I'd be surprised if many, or even any, mathematicians take things in the bottom group seriously. Thoughts?

The 4 color problem seems sorta obvious to me, but I can't prove it.

To be fair, I've devoted much time to other things. One subject, I wish I knew more about was chemistry, which I stopped after first year in college.

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For instance, the Poincaré conjecture has been proved; it is no longer a conjecture. It is now a known fact the only bounded 3-manifold without boundary and with a trivial homotopy group is a 3-sphere. This is also a Millennium Problem.

Some of the topics listed in the diagram after “Serious math” are part of an undergrad curriculum. Everything listed under “Genius”, down to the last section, are fairly standard grad school topics.

Some of the stuff at the very bottom is not really a thing, like “poly-dimensional topology”. “Random sequence extrapolation” carries a lot of unstated context in the diagram. “System entropy deconvolution” may sound ominous, but again, there is a lot of unstated context.