Otherwise you’d end up like the MD who’ve “rediscovered” numerical integration (the trapezoid method) and got it published in the journal of diabetes or whatever.
> Otherwise you’d end up like the MD who’ve “rediscovered” numerical integration (the trapezoid method) and got it published in the journal of diabetes or whatever.
This was shocking because calculus is a required subject in American high schools, and this American doctor presumably went to American high school, not because the doctor didn't check in with mathematicians. Frankly, it would be equally shocking if the doctor had asked a mathematician if integration were a thing, because presumably a doctor is an educated member of society.
Nonetheless, even though it's highly embarrassing to the parties involved, with a little bit of self-deprecating humor if I was the doctor, I could tell people at parties that I, along with Newton and Leibnitz have been published on a foundational numerical integration method. ^_^
"SQLite looks nice, but I would have double checked with Oracle engineers before announcing this as something novel"