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> just fumbling its way around until it guessed correctly As opposed to 0.999999% of the human population who can't do it even if their life depends on it?
by visarga 2y ago
> just fumbling its way around until it guessed correctly
As opposed to 0.999999% of the human population who can't do it even if their life depends on it?
- dsign 2y agoI was going to come here to say that. I remember being a teenager and giving up in frustration at IMO problems. And I was competing at IPhO.
- kevinventullo 2y agoYeah, as a former research mathematician, I think “fumbling around blindly” is not an entirely unfair description of the research process. I believe even Wiles in a documentary described his search for the proof of Fermat’s last theorem as groping around in a pitch black room, but once the proof was discovered it was like someone turned the lights on.
- logicchains 2y agoI guess you mean 99.9999%?