@GabrielDuquette @St_Rev @sarahdoingthing in context it seems to mean "the better method isn't something we tried that didn't work"
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@tipsfromkatee@ozymandias314@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing But the problems themselves change over time.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@tipsfromkatee@ozymandias314@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing Lots of pathologies vanish if you keep problems & progress locally defined.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@tipsfromkatee Also, there's no reason that all problems need be solvable. Most aren't. But it's a target-rich environment.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@tipsfromkatee i.e.: In a small neighborhood of this moment & this being, problems are XYZ and progress is any movement toward solving them.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@tipsfromkatee cf. the moral implications of the Hairy Ball Theorem: points in moral space where no progress is possible.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@tipsfromkatee That's a far less fraught problem than trying to define a global progress vector field, as any geometer knows.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@tipsfromkatee But that doesn't mean progress is never possible, it means there's no globally definable Progress that forever reigns.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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