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by sidlls 3225 days ago
It's not buzzwords, it's jargon. Speaking as a physicist, here, it also reeks of someone trying to show off GR101 skills.

It's like a CS guy responding to "hashtables are O(1) lookup" with a wall-of-pedantry about different implementations, complete with complexity analysis by evaluation of recursion equations and whatnot.

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Agreed. The level of pedantry when trying to explain a topic doesn't sound like it comes from someone who's internalised the core physics concepts they want to explain. It reminds me of when I was trying to explain from-first-principles classic thermodynamics to a layperson as a second-year student. It didn't go well.