[dabauws]

I presume you've never read any quanta magazine pieces before. They like to talk about & emphasize the human side of these discoveries too, instead of merely focusing on the abstract.

"It's like we need our own version of La La Land to glorify the survivors of computer success to motivate more to participate."

lol what

[jart]

It wouldn't be so cringe if they talked about the technical side too. The article says nothing about what "tiny pointers" are. Andrew Krapivin doesn't have a GitHub with any code. His paper is gated so I can't read it. Do they expect me to venerate this kid on faith? We should be celebrating developers whose work is open source, but instead the establishment relegates them to the lowly thankless role of janitors. The only reason a pop science journo would write an article about an open source developer would be not to lionize them but rather put them in their place for a code of conduct violation.

[Davidzheng]

First link is to arxiv

[lupire]

Specifically, they focus on the human interest part, and a pop science into to the field, and avoid discussing the actual result, because the closer they get to the actual piece of research, the more mistakes they make in describing it.