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gsf_emergency_2 · 4h ago

Math: intuition is earned, the payment is in the proof

Physics: intuition favors the favored (some say you earn those favors by shutting up and calculating but in practice most prefer riskier but flashier routes to justify their funding) the flavor is in the pudding

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I'm a physicist by trade, not by training, and that matters

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