alt Hacker NewsI wish people would stop generating stuff they don't understand only to forward it to someone who does. Something about that really rubs me the wrong way.
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auggierose • today at 9:30 AM
Lol. If Gowers sends you a piece of math he doesn't quite understand because he thinks that you might, that is something you celebrate.
May I remind you that this is Timothy Gowers. He says he doesn't understand, but he most certainly has far greater capacity than most to detect complete junk from a maybe plausible argument. His colleague is even better able to judge this, hence why he sent it to him.
Also if he did send me complete junk, I would still parse it for multiple days to see what is there.