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I’m questioning my sense of humor because everyone here seemed to have enjoyed the tone of the article, while I was quite put off by it.
by tambourine_man 7y ago
I’m questioning my sense of humor because everyone here seemed to have enjoyed the tone of the article, while I was quite put off by it.
- adrianmonk 7y agoIt's a good article if you enjoy jokes and references about photographers and how they behave. It's not a good article if you want a minimum of fluff and just want to understand what the discovery is and why it might be significant.
- tambourine_man 7y agoI usually enjoy jokes intermingled with info, those didn’t hit the right note for me, for some reason.
- dentemple 7y agoNot every person finds every joke to be funny.
- mar77i 7y agoWhile I usually enjoy a good amount of fluff, I must say I, too, was underwhelmed by the amount of detail and/or substance reported. The formula makes no sense to me, and was apparently just thrown in in this form for a gag.
- pixelpoet 7y agoI also didn't like it, the title calls him a physicist and in the article it says mathematician, they did an experiment with 500 samples and got how many 9s, the presumption that Newton was the greatest scientist (von Neumann?), the comparison between such theoretical luminaries and someone who did a numerical optimisation of someone else's theoretical work, ... it reminds me of A Beautiful Mind, where the real accomplishments are obscured (and here greatly exaggerated) purely to tell a story to lay-people. More attention to the facts please, less attention to the sandwich.