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by kgeist 872 days ago
There's also this type of articles where the first half of the article is easily understandable by a layman but then they suddenly drop a lot of jargon and math formulas and you get completely lost.
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A friend once described these kin of descriptions by analogy with a recipie that went;

Recipie for buns, First you need flour, this is a white fined grained powder that is produced from ground wheat that can be acquired by exchanging for money (a standardised convention for storing value) at a store which contains many such products. When mixed with the raising agent and other ingredients you should remove the buns from the oven when golden brown.

For this situation, if it feels worth it, I have been applying chatGPT Q&A on the jargon to bridge the gap. I haven’t read this article through yet, so can’t recommend, but in many cases it’s a super useful contextual jargon clearer.