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[mothwentbad]

"okay, so, I opened up your thesis just to see what it looked like. and now I suspect you've made a lot of it up. It doesn't look like real math."

- anonymous "friend"

Comments

[mothwentbad]

"I'm just saying...I'm no expert, but it looks made up."

[cdk]

Isn't making up new math what geniuses do?

[mothwentbad]

I guess, but on the other hand, anyone can just make stuff up.

[vaelynphi]

I disagree; it takes real talent to make shit up. I submit Terry Pratchett as an example. :)~

[skepanie]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME.

[mothwentbad]

It puts the lotion in the baaaaaasket.

[skepanie]

You just wait. JUST WAIT. For what, I don't know, but something will happen and then I will take credit.

[mothwentbad]

Backhanded compliment is backhanded.

[vaelynphi]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... sorry that's funny.

Some of the really hard math does look made up. Very made up. It's thus no surprize that someone should think that of your paper. It's hard enough that I've had to read it in pieces.

[mothwentbad]

Well, it doesn't help that if I write "M" instead of "K" in one place it probably takes an hour to figure out what I meant. When you've reading four variants of the same paper long enough, you automatically see the right thing instead of what's written anyway.

[vaelynphi]

Heh; I don't... I'm a serious nitpicker. I mostly make mistakes on one-shots, like text messages or LJ, where I just type and hit "post" and usually don't give it a second thought (or read).

When reading a text that I didn't write, I'm usually pretty thorough about spotting errors. (They occur often in math textbooks--surprisingly often.)

[mothwentbad]

It's surprising how *few* there are, once you've tried to write anything yourself... X-P

[anais_pf]

Well, you did make it up, didn't you? :P

[mothwentbad]

Um... Within certain formal constraints, I guess...

[bec_87rb]

Cause if you didn't make it up, that'd be teh plagerisms.