Writer of this article: Thank you! I don't mind the snakry comments. In fact, I welcome them as I think they are pretty funny themselves. We'll most certainly be working on more dark magic in the future.
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Then again I was once a pure math grad, so "beautiful, fascinating, albeit completely practically useless" is something I mean as a compliment.
I need to read up on Stem and then come back and read this post of yours again to better appreciate it, I suspect. But that sounds like fun.
not much is novel nowadays. great job!