When reinventing the wheel makes sense

Re:When reinventing the wheel makes sense by SemanticStrengh on Thursday May 19, 2022 @12:35PM (#31436834)

rederiving knowledge from inference chains can be an effective form of data compression

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Re:When reinventing the wheel makes sense by chrisdave on Thursday May 19, 2022 @04:39PM (#31439878)

This is a cool concept. I'm curious if you have other (non math) examples in mind?

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Re:When reinventing the wheel makes sense by ravi-delia on Thursday May 19, 2022 @05:25PM (#31440371)

I scraped by on many a physics exam with a few equations, constants, and invarients that let me derive the rest. That's pretty close to math though

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