[judk]

People are misunderstanding "trivial". Here what they proved is that there is no way to encode any of the English pronunciation rules as a function purely of context-free spelling of phonemes in a way that is consistent across the language. The data shows that all spellings must yield identical pronunciations, unless English JS inconsistent and/or context senstive. Obviously, the latter is true.

[dahart]

Which people? The writers or the readers? 'Cause the context-free interpretation of the headline suggests the writers intended to make the content of an article that fits the definition of trivial sound profound and mathematical in a way that it isn't.

[gohrt]

The headline is gimmicky wordplay, like most headlines.

"trivial" is mathematical. The headline makes "trivial" sound non-mathematical. Profundity is nowhere to be be found; the article is about triviality.