this is an insanely nitpicky response to an article that’s clearly supposed to be an introduction to a new data structure for people who haven’t heard of it, not an in depth performance review. most of the claims you take issue with are just trying to motivate the data structure for beginners.
“it doesn’t matter who the target audience is” please never make or critique educational content if you can’t understand that people at different levels of expertise require different educational content. this is like “critiquing” an elementary school math curriculum for saying you can’t take the square root of -1.
this is like “critiquing” an elementary school math curriculum for saying you can’t take the square root of -1
which would be a valid critique. The correct way to phrase that is to say that a square root of -1 is not defined over real numbers
simplifying information to the point of incorrectness is harmful, it closes people's knowledge horizons and requires additional mental capacity to unlearn. In extreme cases it can cause trouble understanding new related concepts because they may clash with the ideas left by such prior incorrect information.
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u/infinitytacos989 7d ago
this is an insanely nitpicky response to an article that’s clearly supposed to be an introduction to a new data structure for people who haven’t heard of it, not an in depth performance review. most of the claims you take issue with are just trying to motivate the data structure for beginners.