Software is now literally everywhere, doing everything. Picture if there was a website dedicated to Math News. Some articles talk about how amazing Tangents a

Software is now literally everywhere, doing everything. Picture if there was a website dedicated to Math News. Some articles talk about how amazing Tangents are. Some talk about Bayesian inference. It would be a mess. Yes, Hacker News is a mess. That's pretty unavoidable. All conversations take place within a domain - a culture, a set of shared assumptions. And if you start talking with someone new, yes, it will take you quite a while to find out what assumptions they have that are different from yours. Like, I wander in to an economics class, and they put the independent axis in the wrong direction. I open up a computer graphics library, and it's using the left-hand rule. One textbook says negative charge goes this way, and the textbook for a different course says it goes the other way. Yes, people don't even understand that others MIGHT not understand their domain. Yes, that is the world.