[HN Gopher] Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful dia...
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       Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams
        
       Author : rg111
       Score  : 139 points
       Date   : 2021-12-24 16:37 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (penrose.ink)
 (TXT) w3m dump (penrose.ink)
        
       | carreau wrote:
       | From 2020, and still not open...
        
         | forgotpwd16 wrote:
         | https://github.com/penrose/penrose ?
        
           | carreau wrote:
           | Ah, my bad, I think it should be higher and the google form
           | should likely be removed. It's also not visible enough in
           | https://penrose.ink/. I guess I've been conditioned by many
           | website, where if I see a email field I think I have to
           | signup to try...
        
           | mhh__ wrote:
           | The website does say it's still to be released or something
           | to that effect.
        
       | tablespoon wrote:
       | Does anyone else think it's weird to name stuff like this after
       | someone who isn't dead yet?
        
         | ijidak wrote:
         | Agree. I assumed Penrose was backing this...
         | 
         | Wonder if he'll have something to say at some point...
        
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         | tiagod wrote:
         | Honestly, I don't like it even after people that are dead.
         | (Apache Kafka, for example.)
        
           | Sosh101 wrote:
           | That one is especially pretentious.
        
         | Sosh101 wrote:
         | Yeah, I thought for a second I missed some news.
        
       | aaaaaaaaaaab wrote:
       | Unfortunate naming. There's already a notation for tensors called
       | Penrose graphical notation:
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_graphical_notation
        
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       | unbanned wrote:
       | That isn't a Venn diagram. It's an Euler diagram
        
       | aygehat wrote:
       | Great!
        
       | codethief wrote:
       | Not sure re-using an already established term, Penrose
       | diagram[0], for something else entirely is a good idea if you
       | want people to find your project through their search engine.
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       | [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_diagram
        
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