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I like Sabine and overall enjoyed her book Lost in Math, but I feel like her particular style of "snark" (mockery) is unproductive and kind of cheap. It makes s
by woopsn 3y ago
I like Sabine and overall enjoyed her book Lost in Math, but I feel like her particular style of "snark" (mockery) is unproductive and kind of cheap. It makes some sense on YouTube, but not as much when she's interviewing colleagues for print.
One of her recurring points is that physicists get to sort of make stuff up for their own gain now, because the public (and grant institutions, politicians etc) have become very interested in the field while being mostly illiterate in it. But she does this as well. Lay people aren't fit to judge whether eg the sampling algorithms used at the LHC detector are laughably stupid, nor compact dimensions of space, inflation, etc.