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"extinct marine arthropod" = trilobite Why use one word when you can use 3 with less precision?
by zasdffaa 4y ago
"extinct marine arthropod" = trilobite
Why use one word when you can use 3 with less precision?
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- vanderZwan 4y agoLet's put that quote into context shall we? > An article titled "Trilobite-inspired neural nanophotonic light-field camera with extreme depth-of-field" by Q. Fan et al. proposes a metalens design inspired by the bi-focal vision system of an extinct marine arthropod. Oh look at that, "trilobyte" was already used in that same sentence, which is the first one in the blog post. How nice of the author to not presume that everyone knows what a trilobyte is, and give a three-word summary that clarifies it enough to make sense of the rest of the article. I suppose "this extinct marine arthropod" instead of "an extinct marine arthropod" might have been even better, but I'm not going to nitpick that.
- bufferoverflow 4y agoWhen you get paid per word. And indirectly search engines incentivize longer texts with more keywords.
- corndoge 4y agoI'm sure you already know the answer to your question, but the answer to your question is that it's to make the subject of the article comprehendible to people who do not know what a trilobite is.