On: Ways YC has changed in the last year

[j7ake]

I wondered what was the last time you could say that "half the YC batch is working on an X startup", for any value of X.

When did this pseudo math talk creep into normal speech?

It reeks of charlatans pretending to be technical when there is no need to be technical.

[steve_adams_86 → j7ake]

It reads fine to me. Is it really all that technical? It’s just a variable. People with basic math skills with figure out what this means easily. Even if it was technical, the author is also working in a technical space, so technical speak seems par for the course.