eli_sennesh comments on Beyond Statistics 101 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 29 June 2015 12:25:43PM 0 points [-]

How much of our impression of mathematics as a creepy, mental-health-harming cult

Er, what? Who do you mean by "we"?

comes from pure stereotyping?

The link says of Turing:

Finally, Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker, father of computer science and homosexual, died trying to prove that some things are fundamentally unprovable.

This is a staggeringly wrong account of how he died.

Comment author: [deleted] 29 June 2015 11:07:17PM 1 point [-]

This is a staggeringly wrong account of how he died.

Hence my calling it "pure stereotyping"!