alt Hacker News> mangle Joseph Justus Scaliger and Julius Caesar together and try to take the average
Such a person actually existed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar_Scaliger
This sheds no light on the mystery of "Julius Scalier", of course, but it amused me.
Right, I know he existed. But what is he doing in this article? I'm loath to cry "LLM!" but this seems like a really weird error for a human to make. Sort of like getting Babe Ruth, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the Lindbergh Baby confused in your head.