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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

i continue to have no idea why this is but it’s always been weird to me how much better physicists are than mathematicians at naming things. mathematicians study “riemannian manifolds” or “shimura varieties” or whatever and physicists study “lasers” and “black holes” twitter.com/liminal_warmth

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

i guess it’s kinda cute that mathematicians are so insistent on honoring other mathematicians by naming stuff after them but it gets old after awhile. there’s a lack of imagination to it. very few mathematicians who seriously try to name things good, except like conway

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the worst names in any scientific field i’m aware of are probably the ones in anatomy tho. “dorsolateral prefrontal cortex”? “thoracic vertebrae”? fuck off with that nonsense. it’s fucked up gatekeeping to give these high-falutin’ hoity-toity names to stuff everybody has

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@harveykrishna_

bespoke: “sonic hedgehog” protein

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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i'm kinda with the "frivolous" crowd on this one actually

8:30 PM · Sep 24, 2020Twitter Web App

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@harveykrishna_

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100%. scientists gone mad. instead of “bespoke” should’ve labeled with whatever is more broke than broke

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@PallidPalladium

Croak

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