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0 pointsttiurani9mo ago0 comments

Maybe.

As a counterpoint: isn't popularity of a library more a metric of API convemience than actual code quality?

And isn't popularity of an essay more about how it conforms to existing beliefs than the quality of the thinking?

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Those are good points and that's why progress is not guaranteed or trivial, just plausible.

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0 pointsttiurani9mo ago0 comments

Maybe.

As a counterpoint: isn't popularity of a library more a metric of API convemience than actual code quality?

And isn't popularity of an essay more about how it conforms to existing beliefs than the quality of the thinking?

Those are good points and that's why progress is not guaranteed or trivial, just plausible.

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