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I've no problem with it. I understand he means superlinear, and I have both a formal and intuitive understanding of what he's getting at. Getting hung up on su
by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
I've no problem with it. I understand he means superlinear, and I have both a formal and intuitive understanding of what he's getting at. Getting hung up on such minutiae is unimportant, it's like someone who will correct your "who" to "whom" - it misses the point.
The bigger problem is those who don't recognise the implications at all, or know but don't care. I've worked with both.
Actually I did exactly this when being interviewed, talked about exponential. The interviewer obviously got annoyed and moved on but didn't do the right thing which was to ask me to be precise. Had he, I could have said I meant quadratic. He didn't so we both lost an opportunity.
- arethuza 6y agoAn interviewee making that kind of mistake is unfortunate an interviewer doubly so. But putting this kind of thing into an article that has presumably been reviewed by multiple people does, in my view, a fair bit to undermine their credibility.