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For laymen's sake I think the title should say "First shape (without curves) found that [...]"
by AmbroseBierce 1y ago
For laymen's sake I think the title should say "First shape (without curves) found that [...]"
- bonoboTP 1y agoAnd not "pass through itself" but "pass through its copy"
- KernalSanders 1y agoThe article isn't really for the layperson. It's confusing why several people are nitpicking at the title.
- integralid 1y agoBecause not-laypoeople ale precisely the kind of people who would nitpick the technically incorrect title.
- CoastalCoder 1y agoI'm a lay person w.r.t. this topic, and I assumed the great exposition was meant exactly for persons like me.
- blendergeek 1y agoThis is quanta magazine. It is for lay people. The reason people are "nitpicking" the title is that "shape" is not a technical term. The technical term for what was found is "convex polyhedron". I read so much of the article before I was sure that it was talking about convex polyhedra specifically because the title is so ambiguous.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoQuanta Magazine is very much designed for non-technical lay people. From their About page: Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent online publication launched by the Simons Foundation in 2012 to enhance public understanding of science.
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- MountDoom 1y agoOh come on. Quanta Magazine basically writes for HN. They have very little online footprint elsewhere, but they feature here multiple times a week and I'm sure they know it. The titles are almost always in this mold, implying some profound yet vague discovery. Some real, recent examples: - "Researchers Discover the Optimal Way to Optimize" - "Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle" - "A simple way to measure knots has come unraveled" - "The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View" I don't necessarily mind it, even if I don't find the articles very informative. But it's certainly fair game to nitpick this borderline-clickbait style.