NB: Author of post here. Yeah. In general, we didn't think this was horribly ground-breaking work in terms of it being a novel analysis type, the post was mean

NB: Author of post here. Yeah. In general, we didn't think this was horribly ground-breaking work in terms of it being a novel analysis type, the post was meant to explain it in an accessible way for folks who are new to the concept. So we broke down the trapezoidal rule into its more basic graphical intuition so that folks with less of a math background could follow easily.