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Some paragraphs on wikipedia are truly heinous (thelemmy.club)
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I'm sure some math grad could understand this but like nah this shit above my pay grade.

Ok I'm not being paid at all, but still ...

link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochner%27s_theorem

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[-] Keld@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There is genuinely a problem where anything remotely math related is just unreadable to a general audience, same for some philosophy stuff, and that is genuinely a failure of wikipedia. The solution would be the Simple English wikipedia being fucking mandatory on technical subjects, but no

[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

I get that writing about certain topics for a "general audience" can be difficult or unrealistic, but these feel like they're incomprehensible to anyone outside of the exact same sub-field.

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