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Re:Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996) by pmoriarty on Friday October 07, 2016 @11:28PM (#12665527)
An interesting Freudian slip.

You wrote: "...whether this thing I can do at an incredible actually mattered."

leaving out the word "speed" (another term for amphetamines).

It reminds me of Jung's word association experiments, where his data showed that people would pause for longer periods of time when the words in the test hit on subjects that held a strong emotional charge for them.

Re:Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996) by tedmiston on Saturday October 08, 2016 @12:21AM (#12665660)
Whoops; corrected. I probably ought to stop trying to write multiple sentences at a time on mobile.
Re:Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996) by DiabloD3 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @08:28AM (#12666727)
And people argue there is no market for the old Blackberry style phones. Hah.