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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> And that means that you can replicate a math paper by reading it. wife and I are both coders by day, and writes novels by night we've had many a conversation that code is sanity tested by compiling / running it you can't declare a variable named 'a' and then try to use 'b'
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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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Solution here is clearly a domain-specific language that enforces strong typing for characters’ traits, and automatically outputs a novel when you’re done defining them.
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Ah, dang, just received word that I have invented tabletop RPGs, my mistake.
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