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jemfinch suggested that the author did not understand the phrase, but it was not obvious to me that jemfinch understood it--a "cargo cult" and "cargo cult scien
by gammarator 16y ago
jemfinch suggested that the author did not understand the phrase, but it was not obvious to me that jemfinch understood it--a "cargo cult" and "cargo cult science/mathematics" are two different concepts, and I find physics literacy on HN rather low.
By "appropriate," I meant to suggest the author's usage of it can be construed as consistent with Feynman's meaning. I linked the source so folks could decide for themselves if the author's claim was correct in addition to having a meaning we could all agree on.
[I don't know anything about Haskell, I was just trying (and apparently failing) to clarify some muddy discourse.]
- applicative 16y agoTo people who had read the essay and were familiar with the post-Feynman epithet "cargo cult X" it will have been plain that jemfinch knew what it meant and that the original author was clueless about how to apply it.