I've often had that feeling. Last time it wasn't even on anything serious, just coming off some nitrous and aww I totally had the whole thing right there for a glorious few seconds. I got over it a few seconds later when I realised that was not in fact my last box of chargers.
This absolute leprechaun doesn't even know that you have to have edges overlapping on a tiling! That's what makes it a tiling! Escher is spinning in his extremely funny looking grave.
I’m not seeing much to sneer at, here. He had an idea about something
a little complex, put it out there, and adjusted quickly and gracefully
when it was shot down. I guess he used the twitterverse as free labor to
sharpen up his fuzzy and inaccurate thinking?
> I thought I had a complicated impossibility proof visualized in my head, and was leaning more towards "there's an embarrassingly simple impossibility proof I'm missing" than "I lost track of my visualization and there's an embarrassingly simple solution I'm missing".
> But I did consider the latter possibility, and figured that somebody would embarrass me either way.
> Now, of course, I'm trying to reconstruct my original impossibility argument in my head, so I can try to explain what it was, and I can't do it anymore. Well, I suppose that's all as expected.
you say “adjusting quickly and gracefully”, I say “obvious prevaricating to hide wounded pride”
Exactly - if he was really considering it was also possible to do he wouldn’t have phrased the original question clearly presupposing it was disprovable
His back-pedalling is literally “I had a super complicated proof in my head that was super smart but I can’t quite remember it now”
It’s amazing to me how much this crowd confuses “being a poor communicator and also reckless” with “genius.”
I can’t tell whether this is failed ass-kissing or extremely dry mockery, but either way I am here for it.
This is it.
This is my favorite thing on the internet.
Tweet is deleted, receipts?
I’m not seeing much to sneer at, here. He had an idea about something a little complex, put it out there, and adjusted quickly and gracefully when it was shot down. I guess he used the twitterverse as free labor to sharpen up his fuzzy and inaccurate thinking?