Sure, but my overall point was meant to refute this:
> But that's a miss, it's like one of those Neal Stephenson moments where the creator is using the right language […snip…] but they don't understand what's actually going on.
And to support the commenter who expressed surprise about that given Vernor Vinge is a mathematician. Clearly he does know what’s going on. And I think the fact you just posted supports this even more.
Anyways I have no horse in this race, haven’t read the book, just another internet pedant who saw something on HN that could be corrected.
> But that's a miss, it's like one of those Neal Stephenson moments where the creator is using the right language […snip…] but they don't understand what's actually going on.
And to support the commenter who expressed surprise about that given Vernor Vinge is a mathematician. Clearly he does know what’s going on. And I think the fact you just posted supports this even more.
Anyways I have no horse in this race, haven’t read the book, just another internet pedant who saw something on HN that could be corrected.