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I understood a fair bit of it but only because I've been studying elliptic curves for a while - Quanta does a good job of straddling the line between informing
by commandlinefan 2y ago
I understood a fair bit of it but only because I've been studying elliptic curves for a while - Quanta does a good job of straddling the line between informing and educating, but they usually err on the side of presenting results rather than proving or explaining them.
- unnouinceput 2y ago>...but they usually err on the side of presenting results rather than proving or explaining them And that's exactly what I like about it. They are a news site, hence they present the news. If the news presenters start to chime in you get what you see at CNN / Fox etc, and that's called propaganda, not news. I want news.
- jrvieira 2y agoyou're worried that they'll explain 3rd degree polynomials with a leftist bias?
- defrost 2y agoThe overwhelming majority of their publication on organics has an unmistakable bias toward D- sugars ...
- ClassyJacket 2y agoI mean, look at all the insane places leftists have shoehorned gender crap into lately. I wouldn't put it past them.
- tenuousemphasis 2y agoAh yes, leftists shoehorning gender into checks notes elliptic curve math discussion.
- throw_a_grenade 2y ago[flagged]
- jrvieira 2y agointroducing the concept of mathsplaining