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		shoo on Oct 9, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Mathematicians Can’t Find the Hay in a Haystac... i think a dark side to "finding hay in a haystack" is the risk of building up an elegant theory for e.g. a novel calculus of hay, only to realise after some time that the set of hay is in fact empty, or is isomorphic to some other well understood and hence uninteresting structure.

joker3 on Oct 9, 2018 [–]

That's why as soon as you come up with a list of properties your hay should have, you construct an example of it.

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