There's a distinction that's probably only obvious to people with some grad-level math: Corner cases are not the same as rare cases. Neither implies the other. "Corners" are a measure-0 subset of a space where open-nbhd/non-singleton methods don't apply Ie "special treatment"
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Replying to @vgr
but there is some kind of relationship here though, right? even if its just semantics/labeling it's something. if a majority of cases of a thing were "corner" cases we would definitely not label that as the corner. corners are always some kind of minority.
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Replying to @danlistensto
Not necessarily, when the majority is corners, we switch language and start talking about how it's a diverse/varied context. Like say the food scene in a cosmopolitan city with lots of food carts.
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Replying to @vgr
I'm not convinced. to me that signals wrong-abstraction.
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Or just a hard-to-abstract state of affairs. Like the edge of a generative, creative-destruction dynamic
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