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solomonblast Thursday at 10:25 PM1 replyview on HN

My experience talking with high level mathematicians is that they tend to know their subjects so well and are so excited to share it that they can and will scale their explanation to match their audience.


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_carbyau_yesterday at 4:23 AM

I mean, they likely have practice!

Dating or maybe a significant other, parents, siblings, any BBQ event IE any social event outside academia where someone asks "So what do you do?"

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