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> in typical "mathematician minimalist style" it squeezed everything into one enormous, terse, but useless blob You're complaining that it's both too minimalis
by gspr 6y ago
> in typical "mathematician minimalist style" it squeezed everything into one enormous, terse, but useless blob
You're complaining that it's both too minimalist and too enormous?
- whatshisface 6y agoImagine War and Peace, but every word is abbreviated like it's written in shorthand.
- gspr 6y agoFair enough. But also not a problem if the intended recipient is well-versed in that shorthand. An important difference is that a novel doesn't typically require a specialized skillset, but a mathematical development does.
- whatshisface 6y agoNaming functions with acronyms instead of names is totally unrelated to familiarity with math notation. You don't even use acronyms in papers, you use greek symbols and letters written in special fonts.
- gspr 6y agoYeah, and compact acronyms is the closest a lot of programming languages will let you get.