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a3wtoday at 12:35 PM5 repliesview on HN

I did not understand https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096439, but I understood this.


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prvctoday at 1:52 PM

I am the complete opposite of that. My attention wanes when someone fails to get to the point, instead dwelling in irrelevant details which are not intrinsically interesting. Have to muster the motivation to concentrate in such circumstances, and doing so is not enjoyable.

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dxdmtoday at 6:19 PM

But Wikipedia tells you in the first paragraph what it's all about.

A "Pareto front represents the set of solutions where no solution outperforms any other solution in the set at every objective, and every solution not in the set is outperformed by at least one solution in the Pareto front in every objective"

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caxco93today at 1:03 PM

I can only imagine the guy that made Mario Meets Pareto waiting for some Pareto related post to hit the front page before sharing his

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fl4reguntoday at 2:31 PM

wiki is usually not great at teaching new concepts, better as a reference for someone who already learned something.

applfanboysbgontoday at 1:39 PM

It turns out a lot of things are extremely accessible to a lot more people when you teach them as concrete, relatable scenarios in simple language with useful visualizations instead of abstract X, Y foos and bars described with an unfamiliar jargon term every 3rd word. We really need to do better when it comes to pedagogy.