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Does that mean the twitter account is either Farlow, Haggard, or just somebody posting things as their own?
by wodenokoto 6y ago
Does that mean the twitter account is either Farlow, Haggard, or just somebody posting things as their own?
- hombre_fatal 6y agoA cursory scan of their twitter account shows that it's the latter.
- dandanua 6y agoAlso they reposted the story wrong, assuming cans were short.
- kemayo 6y agoThe tweet-author being the original letter-recipient is not necessarily inconsistent with them also having forgotten exactly what they suggested 35 years ago and just substituting in a general sense of what current cat food cans are like. Particularly since they'd be, you know, 84.
- Zancarius 6y agoI feel kind of stupid reading this since I sometimes (often?) forget the exact details of things I've written just 3.5 days ago (!).
- CrazyStat 6y agoWhat makes you say that? I skimmed through a couple pages of tweets and it seems consistent with the twitter account belonging to Farlow. Somewhat surprising for an 84-year-old math professor to have an active twitter account, but not out of the question.
- CrazyStat 6y agoStrong evidence that the account is indeed Farlow: the profile links to a pinterest board [1] which is listed by the NCTM [2] as being run by Farlow. [1] pinterest.com/mathematicsprof [2] https://www.nctm.org/tmf/library/view/75908.html https://www.nctm.org/tmf/library/view/75908.html
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoIt would be a strong evidence if the linking were the opposite way. If I link to the potus piterest page from my twitter page, it would not mean anything.
- CrazyStat 6y ago> if the linking were the opposite way. the linking goes both ways: the pinterest page also points to the @mathematicsprof twitter handle.