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You have to apply the context before you call the (correct) headline misleading. This is a physical sciences context so this is the correct use of "ordered" --
by bkanber 9y ago
You have to apply the context before you call the (correct) headline misleading. This is a physical sciences context so this is the correct use of "ordered" -- as in "order and disorder", i.e. symmetry and correlation. You're talking about "ordered" as in "ordinal", meaning "related to position in a series", which makes more sense in a computer science context (and we are on HN), but still -- it is your job to apply the context to the situation, not anyone else's.
- Terr_ 9y agoIf it's all about bloodless scientific rigor, why'd they choose to highlight "Dice" in the headline when it is probably a property of "cubes" in general? I'm imagining some biologists studying how human cells have some unique negative reactions to C3H8O, and then they title the a report "Humans just can't resist alcohol."