Felix2 comments on The Simple Math of Everything - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 November 2007 10:42PM

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Comment author: Felix2 18 November 2007 01:34:50AM 2 points [-]

Beautiful idea!

Is a Wiki separate from Wikipedia needed?

Similar problem: One thing I run in to often on Wikipedia is entries that use the field's particular mathematical notation for no reason other than particular symbols and expressions are the jargon of the field. They get in the way of understanding what the entry is saying, though.

Similar problem is there seem to be academic papers that have practical applications and yet the papers are written to be as unclear as possible - perhaps to take on that "important" sheen, perhaps simply because the authors are deep in their own jargon and assume all readers know everything they know. Consider papers in the AI field. :)