Mathstodon was not a big enough ecosystem to get the job done on its own. I had to summarize the state of the art in a blog article to attract the attention of the right expert.

I'm not saying this is a bad thing! It's just how it works. I often help solve problems that are too hard for me personally by running around and talking to different people until I bump into the right one. These people are not all sitting in one "place".

(4/n, n = 4)

The road runner coyote series always struck me as a metaphor for the scientific method.

The coyote is mankind tirelessly seeking deep transformative knowledge (the roadrunner), and the moral is how ingenuity is often thwarted but much practical value is learned along the way.