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• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s a pretty cool attitude to have about it. What’s the situation for the last time this happened to you?

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It should happen every time you do a literature review. It’s part of the process!

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Last time this happened to me, more or less, I was trying to find the original source of some commonly (in the field) understood thing. After digging deeper and deeper I came out at Einstein or some similar physicist from the early 19 hundredths. That was wild and unexpected, as it was decades earlier than what I expected. The experiments they did to get us here is amazing.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      it’s really impressive how smart people were back then. we completely tend to underestimate that.

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  • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The most groundbreaking moment in this sense for me was when I was writing course notes for an introductory course (level 300 on my specialty, I was ready). On a small topic, I had my references lined up, until a colleague shared that the obvious, well-known, widely referenced result had been disproven a couple of years prior. The new proof is far from simple, does not belong in a level 300 class and made me scrap the whole section.

    For the interested: the course was Introduction to Numerical Analysis, the topic was the order of convergence of the bisection method. Widely known but wrong result Ironically, I can’t quickly find the paper disproving it.

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What we call a learning opportunity.

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i hope we never run out of fossilesque meme fuels

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Me looking for a Gap at the mall. (Do those even still exist?)

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  • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Your mom told me they did

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      For a second there, I thought I was playing Call of Duty on Xbox.

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