<i>trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one</i><p>if you don't specify that someone is actually yourself, it makes grad students seem too bourgeois.*<p>*Meshing Rainer Weiss' dictum[0] with Anglo-Saxon dictum [1] we have the post-PG (unintentional extremist[2]) dictum:<p><pre><code> Make it possible or make it accessible.
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In 4-letter-words<p><pre><code> Make it real or show it's easy
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Usually, both the reading and writing of papers violate these dictums. (The trying to explain to yourself in babytalk, <i>day after day</i>, is naturally kosher.)<p>[0] there are only 2 games worth playing: the opening-game and the end-game<p>[1] do something worth writing about or write something worth reading<p>[2] <a href="https://note.com/tokyojack/n/n64147f0ff2f3" rel="nofollow">https://note.com/tokyojack/n/n64147f0ff2f3</a>