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Counterpoint: much of academia is creating and learning these shorthands. They are genuinely useful - humans have limited context space in their heads, so this compression allows them to work in larger problem spaces. Classic example: Einstein and tensors.

Upshot - don’t hate - pick up the vocab, it’s part of the learning process.





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