gwern comments on Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 16 February 2011 06:07:22PM 0 points [-]

There's one funny quote I like about partially uniform k-quandles that comes to mind. Somewhat more relevantly, there's also Von Neumann on the danger of losing concrete applications.