{"id":1356,"date":"2006-10-16T05:20:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T12:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2006-10-16T05:20:25","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T12:20:25","slug":"ah-the-life-of-a-theorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/10\/16\/ah-the-life-of-a-theorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, the Life of a Theorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing quite like staring out at the beautiful mountains of Innsbruck while Scott <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/\">Optimizes<\/a> and I <a href=\"http:\/\/dabacon.org\">Pontifficate<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1353\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Thinking In Innsbruck\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/optpont2.jpg?fit=525%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/>\nDave: &#8220;Gee I wonder what the meaning of life is?&#8221;<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1354\" height=\"300\" alt=\"More Thinking In Innsbruck \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/optpont3.jpg?fit=525%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/>\nScott: &#8220;That&#8217;s not a very precise question.  Could you please state some conjecture about the meaning of life that I can prove?&#8221;<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1355\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Even More Thinking In Innsbruck \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/optpont1.jpg?fit=525%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/>\nDave: &#8220;Let x be a postive integer&#8230;.&#8221;<br \/>\n[Thanks to Hans Briegel for these amusing pictures.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing quite like staring out at the beautiful mountains of Innsbruck while Scott Optimizes and I Pontifficate. Dave: &#8220;Gee I wonder what the meaning of life is?&#8221; Scott: &#8220;That&#8217;s not a very precise question. Could you please state some conjecture about the meaning of life that I can prove?&#8221; Dave: &#8220;Let x be a postive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/10\/16\/ah-the-life-of-a-theorist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ah, the Life of a Theorist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self","category-wheres-dabacon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}