The more complex you make something -- even if it's only structured, constructive complexity -- the more people you are excluding. Simplicity is accessibility
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Do you have an example in mind of something intentionally unnecessarily complex?
Most scientific papers, which tend leverage complexity of form in order to appear serious and clever, sometimes to cover triviality of substance.
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It's also something you see in immature creative writers. Seeking to make prose more complex, with the intent to make it appear more prose-like, when the better approach is actually to reduce it to its simplest form.
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I appreciate the clarification. When I read your first tweet I imagined the example of media and news - where, obviously, oversimplification is in some cases exactly what does not help.
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It should be pointed out that this is not necessarily caused by the authors but is a byproduct of the scientific review method. Papers with "trivial substance" can still be useful and important, yet they can get published only if they appear serious and clever.
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Small communities doing any kind of deep work for prolonged periods are naturally going to expand language in their domain. It’s hard to remember what people don’t know, and this complexity can arrive quite innocently and accidentally.pic.twitter.com/R9AvyUfEhQ
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I became very irritated early in my initial attempt at learning ML because i felt simple concepts were cloaked in unusual terms. ‘Stochastic gradient descent’ could be explained much more simply. But ultimately there is value in the specificity that’s keeps these terms around.
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