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skybrian • today at 4:17 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Maybe math is more like a science now, though? It's as if ancient astronomers saw the results from a modern telescope. "Why even look at the sky anymore," they might ask. "And we don't even own the telescope!"

Maybe the answer is to look into how Big Science works? There's still plenty of work to be done figuring out what to do with the outputs from these new math-observing instruments.