[lioeters]

Damn, local LLM just made it up. Thanks for the correction, I should have confirmed before quoting it. Sounded true enough but that's what it's optimized for.. I just searched for the quote and my comment shows up as top result. Sorry for the misinformation, humans of the future! I'll edit the comment to clarify this. (EDIT: I couldn't edit the comment anymore, it's there for posterity.)

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> Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

— Oliver Heaviside

In 'On Operators in Physical Mathematics, part II', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (15 Jun 1893), 54, 121.

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Also from Heaviside:

> If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

> "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.

> There is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

[karparov]

> Damn, local LLM just made it up.

> I just searched for the quote and my comment shows up as top result

Welcome to the future. Isn:t it lovely?

And shame on you (as in: HN crowd) to have contributed to it so massively. You should have known better.