• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    When Faraday demonstrates his electric motor to his peers, everyone calls him a genius. When I do it, I get arrested for driving through the convention floor.

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    I once heard it took Robert Frost almost two years to write “the road not taken” well, with a little practice, I was able to write it ib a little less than two minutes!

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    The most disappointing part of school is taking a 101 class and making a bunch of deductions based on what you learn, and then taking the 201 and learning that other people had the same ideas first.

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      I dunno, I kind of enjoyed that. What is more disappointing is when those people thought of similar ideas but then made a very inconvenient way to describe them the “convention”, e.g the direction of electrical current or pi.

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    Poincaré? (I know, his insight somehow still came short of Einstein’s, but it’s interesting how close he came.)