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[-] Hegar@kbin.social 90 points 2 years ago

Obviously almost everyone who claims this on the internet is full of it. Full of themselves and full of shit.

That said, with time, patience, study and luck you can contribute meaningfully to an expert understanding of the world! A year or two back it was an amateur enthusiast who discovered that some markings near cave paintings of animals may correlate with reproductive cycles for those animals - an interpretation that gathered some expert support.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 70 points 2 years ago

Someone once solved a 25 year old math problem and posted the proof on 4chan.

[-] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 years ago

I love the subtitle. The fact that it was

A debate over the most efficient way to watch a cult classic TV series' episodes, in every possible order

makes it completely believable.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

Wasn't the formula to calculate turbulence from a russian math genius who lives somewhere in the woods, appeared with the solution and disappeared again?

[-] quilan@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

I think you may be conflating something with the story of Perelman, who solved the Poincare conjecture (with its 1 million dollar prize), rejected the prize and basically told the math world to stuff it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

Yeah, not super long ago some kid discovered that an animal wasn't endangered while doing a research paper for school.

[-] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I would love to hear more about this!

[-] Hegar@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

There's a lot of over hyping about 'writing' but here's the first article I found with a reasonable sounding headline: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-64161861

If you search for 'cave painting animal reproductive cycle' you'll find a lot of major outlets reporting on it, which should include the names of the paper's authors if you want to dig deeper.

[-] suction@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago

Not even almost. The internet is done, thanks to Russia

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

thanks to Russia

I thought it was China that ruined the internet. Or maybe it was North Korea? Idk, the point is that it was definitely an evil foreign government who ruined America's premier information sharing network.

Not a profit-hungry former Yahoo executive who failed upward into the world's most successful internet company or the founder who made a multi-billion dollar bad bet on VR or the guy who bought Twitter and proceeded to wage a War on Woke.

[-] suction@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Just what a Russian bot would say.

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