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In other words, it is a sequence of words entirely devoid of any meaning. If it can only possibly convey an idea to someone who already knows that idea and know
by puffoflogic 4y ago
In other words, it is a sequence of words entirely devoid of any meaning. If it can only possibly convey an idea to someone who already knows that idea and knows that idea is the one to be conveyed, then the words carry zero bits of information.
- Elpis1 4y agoNot at all. To the audience the blog is written for, the article is very sensible. When two folks who know computers quite well discuss some esoteric issue, they will use technical language and assume a certain level of competency and background knowledge; it's the same in physics.
- andrewflnr 4y agoNo. Just to elucidate the general principle a bit: sometimes a reminder or different perspective of past learning using vocabulary you already know can be valuable. Humans aren't perfect decoding and recall machines. And that's assuming the author and target audience learned the advanced vocabulary in the exact same way, which is unlikely. Sometimes you need to fill in gaps in some of your audience's knowledge, perhaps that they should have learned but didn't, maybe because they or their teacher was having a rough day in class.