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An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression

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Re: An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression

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The pattern looks nice, but I would have asked some mathematicians before announcing this as something novel.

Come on, does every cool thing need a stamp of approval by "experts" before publication?

"SQLite looks nice, but I would have double checked with Oracle engineers before announcing this as something novel"

Re: An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression

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post #4

The pattern looks nice, but I would have asked some mathematicians before announcing this as something novel.

It's a blog post, not a peer-reviewed paper. And the tone certainly sounds to me like an invitation to mathematicians "Hey, we're amateurs who found this cool thing, can you tell us more about it?"

Re: An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression

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post #7
post #4

The pattern looks nice, but I would have asked some mathematicians before announcing this as something novel.

Come on, does every cool thing need a stamp of approval by "experts" before publication? "SQLite looks nice, but I would have double checked with Oracle engineers before announcing this as something novel"

Well, to some extent, yes.

Otherwise you’d end up like the MD who’ve “rediscovered” numerical integration (the trapezoid method) and got it published in the journal of diabetes or whatever.

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