This is a very good post. I particularly like the part about checking whether a result "proves too much" -- I never thought about it before, but I get a lot of Thought Leader mileage out of that trick, and I definitely picked it up from my mathematical training.https://twitter.com/ProfJayDaigle/status/1488913603004563456 …
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it just won't work however, when you write a story or a novel there is literally no tool to stop you from any of thousands of mistakes - have a character named 'a' who changes names to 'b' - have a character named 'a' just vanish bc you forgot - have char a change motivations
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much as your math major taught you the judo kick of "this thing X proves too much", our experience coding taught us that there is a class of error checkers that exist in one field, but does not (but should?) exist in a different field fin.
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not yet working on her first novel very secretive / shy ... prob under a pen name, when it comes time
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[flashback to weird coding bug where some idjit redefined ‘t’ nested 18 .h files deep, fragging 157 files in the process]
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