Granularity comes at a cost – Game Theory

Re:Granularity comes at a cost – Game Theory by dtgriscom on Monday June 22, 2026 @01:39PM (#48633261)

I hate the use of "granular" in a relative context. If water is not granular, and ice cubes are granular, what does it mean for some ice cubes to be more granular than other ice cubes? Are the cubes in question larger or smaller?

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Re:Granularity comes at a cost – Game Theory by datadrivenangel on Monday June 22, 2026 @03:39PM (#48634993)

Fluids generally aren't composed of grains, where as cubes of ice are grains... More granularity typically means of finer grains... so smaller ice cubes are more fine grained, more granular. [0]

0 - Wikipedia: "The concepts granularity, coarseness, and fineness are relative..."

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Re:Granularity comes at a cost – Game Theory by dtgriscom on Monday June 22, 2026 @07:41PM (#48638079)

Yes, but note that your cited article doesn't talk about "more granular" or "less granular"; it talks about "fine-grained" and "coarse-grained".

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Re:Granularity comes at a cost – Game Theory by emil-lp on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:45PM (#48634279)

I observe that you have strong feelings. There are exercises that help increase emotional granularity.

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