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gerikson@awful.systems to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 months ago

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024

gerikson@awful.systems to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 months ago
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    if you know who this is this is the funniest fucking headline

    Grothendieck. 'He was in mystic delirium': was this hermit mathematician a forgotten genius whose ideas could transform Al - or a lonely madman?

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      Someone help me; I don’t know who this is and don’t know what to Google to decide if this is funny or not!

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        That is Alexander Grothendieck. He’s involved with some abstract algebra I’m way to sober to grok rn. My only knowledge of him is that his stuff basically established category theory as a thing, although apparently that was completely unintentional on his end.

        He seems to have been an… interesting character in his later years

        Local villagers helped sustain him with a more varied diet after he tried to live on a staple of dandelion soup.

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          Thank you!

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            9 months ago

            Okay yeah this is funny.

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