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Re:Surprise Computer Science Proof Stuns Mathematicians by deredede on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @03:26PM (#35251246)
Proofs (both results and techniques) are a mathematician's ammo. It is not good strategy to wait for a war to start before building ammo.
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Re:Surprise Computer Science Proof Stuns Mathematicians by riku_iki on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @03:50PM (#35251581)
And then you open ammo storage when you need it and see it is polluted by 99.9% of irrelevant garbage.

Math is like code: technical debt makes moving forward much harder.

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