Having been an editor on three journals, I can say that the most difficult thing a journal must do is find referees. So I was thinking last week of how nice it would be to have a “refbot” (software that was trained on what made for a good, publishable article) to use as a referee. And then I suddenly realized that I was contemplating a new kind of singularity.
The word “singularity” comes from Latin, and then French, meaning unusual, exceptional, unique behavior. Scientifically, a singularity is an event horizon, the penetration of which results in the suspension or negation of all the physical rules that govern mechanics, electromagnetism, pretty much everything.
Mathematically, a singularity is when an operation is not defined. It’s not so much that it can’t be done, but rather that it literally cannot be defined or understood using the normal logical rules of premises or induction. Think “divide by zero” or “invert an NxN matrix whose rank K
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