What amazes me most about mathematics is that it’s a library of code and data structures that is (in its current form) under active development for hundreds of years, uses a single global namespace, no actual package management and no versioning.
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Replying to @Plinz
It’s because hiding it, even for a minority, is disadvantageous to the group. Anyone could make a connection you or your subset could not make alone. So everyone has to have the chance. Anything else is wasting time.
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Replying to @bloodyquantum
I think that everyone has the chance. But to make a dent in a problem that has kept some of the sharpest minds of the past five generations awake at night will usually require many years of full attention. Such attention is so rare that it has a medical name.
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Replying to @Plinz @bloodyquantum
I like this framing! (Though I think incremental opportunities for progress are always available to fresh eyes, specially for taking things in different directions, under different definitions of progress.) What’s the medical name for this rare kind of sustained hyper-attention?
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Aspergers :)
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