There's honestly a certain element of truth in this.
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RE: https://mastodon.com.br/@xkcd/116480390342730879
There's honestly a certain element of truth in this. A mathematician specialising in topology once got chatting to a lady who was knitting, fascinated by the parallels, of which there are many.
He approached her, very excited, a week later, with a whole new way of doing it.
"Yes, dear, that's called a purl stitch."@_thegeoff Mathsplaining
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@_thegeoff Isn’t that a Dirac story?
(Possibly featuring Peierls’ wife as the knitter …)
@BashStKid Ah, thank you, was trying to remember the source. (But does sound very chatty for Dirac!)
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RE: https://mastodon.com.br/@xkcd/116480390342730879
There's honestly a certain element of truth in this. A mathematician specialising in topology once got chatting to a lady who was knitting, fascinated by the parallels, of which there are many.
He approached her, very excited, a week later, with a whole new way of doing it.
"Yes, dear, that's called a purl stitch."@_thegeoff reminds me of the economist "discovering" likert scale-type measurement in a paper in 2020-something.
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My father, as an airborne air controller in Korea, was directing a fighter aircraft returning at night who reported a pursuing aircraft that he could not shake. Sent two fighters out to deal with it. Confusion when they arrived. But they quickly identified the light as Venus.
@JeffGrigg @_thegeoff @simonbp Planets: Threat, or Menace?
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RE: https://mastodon.com.br/@xkcd/116480390342730879
There's honestly a certain element of truth in this. A mathematician specialising in topology once got chatting to a lady who was knitting, fascinated by the parallels, of which there are many.
He approached her, very excited, a week later, with a whole new way of doing it.
"Yes, dear, that's called a purl stitch."@_thegeoff @ShaulaEvans When I was young I got very excited once when I came up with a sorting algorithm. Until a more senior dev looked at it and said: great, you invented bubble sort
This is btw exactly what’s happening in tech over and over, made worse by LLM’s so now everyone can reinvent something -
@JeffGrigg @_thegeoff @simonbp Planets: Threat, or Menace?
Planets are unrelenting. The do not give up.
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@_thegeoff @ShaulaEvans When I was young I got very excited once when I came up with a sorting algorithm. Until a more senior dev looked at it and said: great, you invented bubble sort
This is btw exactly what’s happening in tech over and over, made worse by LLM’s so now everyone can reinvent something @johan @ShaulaEvans Independent discovery at least feels a bit satisfying when you find out you'd have been cutting edge or won a Nobel if you'd done it 100 years ago...you don't even get that with "AI" stuff. (Researchers using ML properly aside, e.g. protein folding.)
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@johan @ShaulaEvans Independent discovery at least feels a bit satisfying when you find out you'd have been cutting edge or won a Nobel if you'd done it 100 years ago...you don't even get that with "AI" stuff. (Researchers using ML properly aside, e.g. protein folding.)
@_thegeoff @ShaulaEvans Oh very true, I felt super smart even after he told me I just reinvented it
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@_thegeoff @ShaulaEvans Oh very true, I felt super smart even after he told me I just reinvented it
@johan @ShaulaEvans We do the zinc electroscope and UV light experiment without initial explanation, a few ~16yo students have independently proposed the quanta
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@johan @ShaulaEvans We do the zinc electroscope and UV light experiment without initial explanation, a few ~16yo students have independently proposed the quanta
@_thegeoff I love it when young people come up independently with things that are already known. I just hope there's always someone around to point that out to them. Otherwise we get idiots like you know who inventing trains again
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