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What? Did you not read the parent of this thread? > strongly agree with readability in my opinion its cause Academia people live in "bubbles" and they assume e
by ShamelessC 5y ago
What? Did you not read the parent of this thread?
> strongly agree with readability in my opinion its cause Academia people live in "bubbles" and they assume everyone knew what a domain specific terms and greek letters means
In any case, I program HPC stuff myself with pytorch and no - I don't know the Greek alphabet and probably don't understand "non trivial math". The assumption that these people can't contribute is pretty off-putting honestly. More engineers would join such efforts if there wasn't so much gatekeeping.
- tagrun 5y agoSo you think there's a cabal of "gatekeeper" scientists who are trying to hold the hordes of capable (yet somehow unfamiliar with the corresponding mathematical literature) engineers from making useful contributions to their libraries, because they use the conventional notation from the scientific literature? They should instead tread carefully and dispose of all Greek letters in their code to ensure you are not put off, because that's the real reason that stops you from making useful contributions?
- ShamelessC 5y ago> So you think there's a cabal of "gatekeeper" scientists No. I suggested I myself have seen gatekeeping and referenced your comment as example. Make of that what you will, but don't extrapolate it to a conspiracy theory I didn't suggest.