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gjm11 1y ago
What is the purpose of this comment? It seems to be taken directly from the article, but it doesn't begin at the beginning or end at the end or shed any light on the part of the title most likely to be puzzling ("beyond arithmetic"). If the intention was to help out readers who don't know what a quadratic form is, I think a more helpful piece of advice would be: if you don't already know what a quadratic form is, then it is very unlikely that you will get anything much out of this article.
- coderatlarge 1y ago
  i started my comment with a double-quote indicating that the content is directly from the article starting right at the beginning of the introduction section (to your point about starting at the beginning). i went down to Euler’s sums of two squares identity which i think demonstrates clearly that even middle school algebra suffices to get a sense of depth from this work showing that a product can also be seen as a sum in a more sophisticated context (ie beyond arithmetic structure emerges). i fail to understand your disapproval on my providing additional context from the page to indicate that this is likely a more interesting post to a wider set of readers than most might assume just from the title. i didn’t feel the need to editorialize further because i thought the quote says it all on its own.
  - pavel_lishin 1y ago
    > i fail to understand your disapproval on my providing additional context from the page But this isn't additional context. It's just a few copy-pasted paragraphs.
    - coderatlarge 1y ago
      in retrospect, i can see why you might say that, but as noted in my previous reply i selected those paragraphs deliberately though i understand now it would have maybe helped to say a few words about why i thought those paragraphs would be helpful in particular (see my previous comment about middle school algebra).
  - Jtsummers 1y ago
    Comments that are just copy/paste from articles almost always gets downvoted and/or flagged. People can always read the article in question to get the same material. If you think something is interesting about the quoted bit, it's more helpful to add your commentary or even just a "Hey, look this section pretty much just requires middle school math." so people can understand why you're copy/pasting from the article. Without that contextual clue, your comment appears to just be noise.
    - coderatlarge 1y ago
      ok thanks for explaining, that helps.

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What is the purpose of this comment? It seems to be taken directly from the article, but it doesn't begin at the beginning or end at the end or shed any light on the part of the title most likely to be puzzling ("beyond arithmetic"). If the intention was to help out readers who don't know what a quadratic form is, I think a more helpful piece of advice would be: if you don't already know what a quadratic form is, then it is very unlikely that you will get anything much out of this article.

coderatlarge 1y ago
i started my comment with a double-quote indicating that the content is directly from the article starting right at the beginning of the introduction section (to your point about starting at the beginning). i went down to Euler’s sums of two squares identity which i think demonstrates clearly that even middle school algebra suffices to get a sense of depth from this work showing that a product can also be seen as a sum in a more sophisticated context (ie beyond arithmetic structure emerges). i fail to understand your disapproval on my providing additional context from the page to indicate that this is likely a more interesting post to a wider set of readers than most might assume just from the title. i didn’t feel the need to editorialize further because i thought the quote says it all on its own.
- pavel_lishin 1y ago
  > i fail to understand your disapproval on my providing additional context from the page But this isn't additional context. It's just a few copy-pasted paragraphs.
  - coderatlarge 1y ago
    in retrospect, i can see why you might say that, but as noted in my previous reply i selected those paragraphs deliberately though i understand now it would have maybe helped to say a few words about why i thought those paragraphs would be helpful in particular (see my previous comment about middle school algebra).
- Jtsummers 1y ago
  Comments that are just copy/paste from articles almost always gets downvoted and/or flagged. People can always read the article in question to get the same material. If you think something is interesting about the quoted bit, it's more helpful to add your commentary or even just a "Hey, look this section pretty much just requires middle school math." so people can understand why you're copy/pasting from the article. Without that contextual clue, your comment appears to just be noise.
  - coderatlarge 1y ago
    ok thanks for explaining, that helps.