On: How the Witcher 3’s economy was saved by polynomia...

[gruez]

Did anyone else find the title as a little cringey? The name of the GDC talk was "Witchcraft: The Alchemy of a Crafting-Based Economy", but I guess that didn't sound as high tech as "polynomial least squares".

[gburt → gruez]

Saying "polynomial least squares" to refer to a class of model fitting techniques that...

1) basically dominates the entire space of statistical analysis

2) was almost entirely irrelevant to the article

...struck me as pretty artificial to me too.

[cafebeen → gruez]

Yes, it came across as bragging about using a basic curve fitting technique and dressing it up with jargon. There's probably more interesting work done there that didn't make it to the article though.