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Re:Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao by muragekibicho on Sunday July 12, 2026 @08:21AM (#48880592)
The article's awkward opening statement proves it wasn't written by AI.

I have been interested in machine-assisted ways to do and teach mathematics from as far back as 1999, when I started coding several applets in Java 1.0, both for my complex analysis and linear algebra courses, to visualize various mathematical objects I was interested in (such as honeycombs or Besicovitch sets).

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Re:Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao by kccqzy on Sunday July 12, 2026 @09:39AM (#48881164)
It’s very much Terrence Tao style. His style is having long sentences that could have been broken down into shorter sentences but he chose not to. It doesn’t really affect reading comprehension.
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Re:Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao by r_lee on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:12AM (#48881797)
i would take this every single time over some Claude rewrite slop
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