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yeah I really dislike this style, and you see it everywhere. For some reason this sort of pop science article always needs to start with a person doing somethin

• posterboy 8y ago
  Just today I remembered the well known fact that story telling facilitates memorization. The other day I wondered whether story telling was the highest form of art, prompted by HN comments on the reception of art. Later I wondered how much the sequential nature of histories facilitated the development of language, and how the need to express parallel developments using a sequential medium created syntax, recursion and dialogue. Here, the author isn't in the place of the protagonist, neither is the reader. But a story needs a hero. Especially in topics such as this it helps to remind that these could be familiar people. Naturally, in science the heroic result should be most important. In that regard this is click bait. It paints a stark contrast. It does not present a new way, just another stepping stone to high fidelity measurements. It's way over the top for entertainment purposes. The style doesn't prohibit skim reading though. If jumping to the highly abstract abstract would be too terse ... maybe the story you are trying to compose by reading nothing in particular is highly parallel, but lacking interaction.