> For example, random sentences like "The good news is that math doesn’t really care what some Australians or overpaid programmers at Big Tech think."... There's no context for this, [...]

To me this is funny/entertaining w/o taking focus off the topic.

It is the kind of humor you will find in the UK and northern Europe. Dry, and has at least one level of indirection.

I.e. not someone tripping over something and you hear a laughing track dubbed over that – in case you missed that was meant to be funny.

I generally like when a text about a mentally taxing topic is lightly interspersed with such digressions.

Most of my American friends don't grok them and not seldomly react like you – they consider these rants and not funny.

Yeah the west coast doesn't do humor anymore. I lived in San Francisco / Seattle years ago but I avoid all that now. They take offense at everything so everyone frowns in the stores. Coming from Eastern Europe, I recognize the creepy Soviet vibe and this is reflected in the pretty nauseating HN community

Miami is WAAAY cooler

Enjoy this article before it gets pulled

Weird, the example you quoted feels American to me. British comedy tends to be self deprecating, whereas the article constantly takes the position of “I am the smart one, everyone else is doing it wrong”

FWIW I’m not criticising, I enjoyed some of the ideas and they may well be correct.

I removed the jabs at the Aussies - that is dirty laundry I really don't need to be bringing up here as no one cares anymore

I appreciate the feedback - it's a follow up to Part 1 for completeness, I don't expect anyone here to read it.

Bombastic articles get attention but yes I need to tone it down. I don't think anyone cares about the FP cat fights anymore anyway

You bring up an important preface that I forgot to add - thank you. Yes it does seem like I am jumping around and categories have a nasty pedagogical reputation because of how the brain is wired. Categories are a convergent tech but the human brain wants to compartmentalize, so this paper is literally pushing the opposite way we normally process information

To be fair I would have read it, but there was no link, as another comments have pointed out as well.

It was mostly a troll article not worth reading - maybe there is a copy on wayback machine

>For example, random sentences like "The good news is that math doesn’t really care what some Australians or overpaid programmers at Big Tech think."... There's no context for this,

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/07/prime-minister-says-the-l...

It was a poke at a very smart but also very annoying FP troll @dibblego

For a while, FP noobs were terrorized by a bunch of FP thugs on Twitter