You are Officially Lost

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You are Officially Lost Wed, Aug 1. 2007


Found in the pamscale(1) man page:

If you don’t know what the mathematical concept of convolution (convolving) is, you are officially lost. You cannot understand this explanation.

Is this pointing out a shortcoming of the author or the reader? I'm sure you could make an argument either way.

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#1 - Evelyn 2007-09-08 15:53 - (Reply)

It's so easy these days to point someone at Wikipedia, that's it's hard to justify being that rude.


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