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That's how I feel every time I stumble into a math thread. It's always interesting to see real people discuss this stuff. Like, I don't have any close friends who have likely multipled a matrix in the last year or probably decade. It seems so far away from ordinary life.

Then you go on HN and there are people just casually chatting about it. They're speaking English but neither the words nor the relation to other words means anything to the uninitiated.

But then there's a few that stand out, like someone will say "You don't really need Bloof tensors, you can model it just as well as a Randolph set of quadrispheres", and it's recognizable as technical discussion comparing the merits of models, but thats about it.




Hehe indeed; I had a similar experience with this article -

"...its plasmon ... is a quantized (OK) collective (right) oscillation (yup) of its electron (got it) density (fine)"

... it's a what what of its what?

It is indeed humbling and gratifying in equal measure to be keeping such company!




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