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Agreed, but as a slight counterpoint, some research is about stripping away unnecessary middle layers, to find abstractions, a quicker way to the surface in oth
by algorias 14y ago
Agreed, but as a slight counterpoint, some research is about stripping away unnecessary middle layers, to find abstractions, a quicker way to the surface in other words.
If we didn't do this, research would inevitably stop, unless eternal life lies inside a 100 year radius of the sphere (and we can keep learning and getting smarter forever, which I doubt)
- mturmon 14y agoAnd, some stuff has been forgotten. Even if it used to seem pretty important. Speaking about spheres, there's lots of stuff about spherical trigonometry that you can find in old books (say, 1880s to 1920s [1]). They used to think it was math, but it has been determined to not be math any more. It's now stuff that "everyone knows". [1] http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=math;cc=math;rgn=full%20text;idno=00640001;didno=00640001;view=image;seq=9;node=00640001%3A5;page=root;size=100 http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?...