Re:‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
by robinhouston on Saturday December 17, 2022 @04:15AM
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Meta: I’m fascinated by the way that a string of five comments, by different users, have all copied the misspelling of Terence Tao’s name from the original comment by isaacfrond.
Re:‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
by pyinstallwoes on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:26AM
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Is that something GPT would do?
Re:‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
by Ygg2 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:48AM
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Not really. Terrence and Terence are too visually similar and tbh I've seen more former than latter.
Re:‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
by ndsipa_pomu on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:25AM
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I hadn't realised I'd misspelled his name until I saw your comment. For some reason, it looks better with two 'r's.
Re:‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
by supernewton on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:33AM
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It's not too weird -- "Terry" is always spelled with two r's, and yes English is weird but if you didn't have any more specific knowledge you'd also assume the name Terry is derived from is also always spelled with two r's.
Re:‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
by thereare5lights on Sunday December 18, 2022 @12:05AM
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Context matters.
Commenter was replying to someone who said
> I feel that Terrence Tao doesn't get much recognition outside of maths circles but he's one of those people who just seem to be in a totally different league.
and I highlight
> one of those people who just seem to be in a totally different league.
> Don't let the existence of someone be the excuse you use to tell yourself you couldn't also do something cool or great.