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throw-the-towel
24 days ago
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The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol)
To borrow a common wisdom about marketing, half of all mathematics is a waste of time, but you can't know which half.
tsunamifury
23 days ago
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But the issues is you have the ratios wrong. 99% of math theory is useless and maybe 1% has value.
throw-the-towel
23 days ago
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Maybe so! My point was not about the exact percentages, just the fact that you can't predict which avenues of research will yield practical results.
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