Someone called Cornellis Simon Meijer, apparently. It transpires that Meijer was tired of trigonometric functions, gamma functions, step functions and Bessel functions being different things, and invented a function which had all of them as special cases.
Is there a name for this sort of prose? It vaguely reminds me of Things I Won’t Work With in a weird way.
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I’d be concerned that you’re working in an adversarial environment, and predicting adversarial environments by modelling past behavior is, uh, suboptimal at best. (See also, every attempt to beat the stock market ever.)
Is there a name for this sort of prose? It vaguely reminds me of Things I Won’t Work With in a weird way.
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I’d be concerned that you’re working in an adversarial environment, and predicting adversarial environments by modelling past behavior is, uh, suboptimal at best. (See also, every attempt to beat the stock market ever.)
‘War stories’ or ‘cooler talk’?