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The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves (2020)
- PavleMiha 5y agoI absolutely love Quanta. Everything I read from them seems to strike the right balance for an interested layman to get enough from, without feeling like I'm being tricked into a false sense of understanding.
- willis936 5y agoIt's unsatisfying to read a long article about waves and have frequency, impedance, and resonance not mentioned once. Casino metaphors do little when trying to understand the phenomenon.
- voldacar 5y agoTotally agreed. I have never actually learned anything from a quanta article. They write articles with headlines like "Mathematicians discover new equation!!!" and then never even state the equation in the article, instead giving vague allusions to its content and significance. What even is their target audience? People who like math but not enough to actually be shown any math?
- PaulHoule 5y agoThe kind of math that they are talking about (anything having to do with extreme values) is particularly hard, exotic and (in my mind) still pre-paradigmatic. It is 2021 and physicists still bin events by magnitude, draw a line through the points, announce they discovered a power law. It's like nobody ever taught them there was such as thing as an "estimator"; actually in the 1990s I was doing that too, knew it was half-baked, and found the stats literature wasn't useful to outsiders at all.
- voldacar 5y agoFair enough, I was just venting about quanta in general
- teleforce 5y agoVery interesting read on a phenomenon that once was considered a myth. This reminds me of the Quranic story mentioning the rogue like ocean waves during the prophet Noah sailing thru the sea during the great flood [1]. [1]https://quran.com/11/42 https://quran.com/11/42