I just finished reading this:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mb566/papers/tacc-hs09.pdf

It's a very cool paper and everything. Some very interesting ideas in 
there. The only problem is... large chunks of it are utterly beyond my 
comprehension. For example, there are several figures which consist 
entirely of bizarre symbols, hitherto unknown. And the body text uses 
several words in a way that clearly indicates that they are technical 
terms rather than just plain English, but I have no idea what the 
meaning of these terms might be.

The fact that all this notation and jargon is casually banded about 
without the merest hint of an explanation suggests that it's the 
standard "well-known" language for some subject area or other (as 
opposed to something the authors came up with themselves). Does anybody 
have any clue what that subject area might be? (And where I can go read 
about it?)

Post a reply to this message