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Generic -> robust. i... i dont know how to explain that. honestly i haven't thought about the necessity of explaining things like this. its... basic mathematics.


I don't think these words mean what you think they mean. Like "science" and "mathematics".


I'm sorry, but if you cannot explain it, you simply do not understand it yourself. That's harsh, I get it, and I'm truly sorry, but that's a basic fact.


Generic != Robust.

It can quite easily be the opposite, they are certainly orthogonal concepts.


This smacks of an unexamined bias. Or maybe we're not using the words to mean the same things?




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