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1459 points Group_B | 4 comments | 04 Feb 25 18:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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duxup ◴[04 Feb 25 18:43 UTC] No.42936755[source]▶
I like the idea, but one thing about Wikipedia is that with technical or granular topics it approaches things in a focused way. A specific molecular biology term's page isn't there to explain exactly how it fits into a larger biology topic. It makes random pages difficult to glean information from.

Even wikipedia articles I understand, more on computer topics, fall into the category of "the only people who understand this page are people who ... already understand it / don't need to read this".

Granted sometimes the social media context is kinda opaque, but usually "man fall down it funny" is pretty universal.

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myself248 ◴[04 Feb 25 18:59 UTC] No.42936967[source]▶
Math articles are excruciatingly bad on this. I find myself setting the language to "simple english" and it helps.
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1. duxup ◴[04 Feb 25 19:08 UTC] No.42937108[source]▶
Wikipedia math articles all remind me of what i learned in High School, that math is absolutely the worst to learn from someone who "just gets it" as often those folks have no concept how someone else might not "just get it". I suspect the wikipiedia articles are written by folks who "just get it".
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2. wwweb ◴[04 Feb 25 20:06 UTC] No.42937857[source]▶
A wiki (or any encyclopedia, for that matter) is not meant to be an introduction or a HOWTO.
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3. hnuser123456 ◴[04 Feb 25 21:02 UTC] No.42938623[source]▶
I'm around calc 2 level, and spent some time learning ANN architectures, but it's taken a very long time to increase my ability to parse the more arcane topics since graduating.

For example, this[1] is something I'd like to be able to just glance over and know all the applications and appreciate the beauty... but it's very hard to prevent my eyes from glossing over. Maybe someone has a youtube video on the topic that makes it easier to catch up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp_space

4. duxup ◴[04 Feb 25 22:54 UTC] No.42940304[source]▶
I can understand that. Having said that some topics (history) are surprisingly easy to pick up articles with lots of background and etc. If you look up a battle you'll get a short history of the war, days before the battle, explanations why say a given soldier might struggle and etc.

Other topics are almost dictionary level simplistic.