The challenge comes from a person like me, who doesn't know off the top of my head which Greek letter ξ is. So for each of these symbols I'd have to google them and learn it, or have some notepad where I can copy paste the needed symbol
> strongly agree with readability in my opinion its cause Academia people live in "bubbles" and they assume everyone knew what a domain specific terms and greek letters means
In any case, I program HPC stuff myself with pytorch and no - I don't know the Greek alphabet and probably don't understand "non trivial math". The assumption that these people can't contribute is pretty off-putting honestly. More engineers would join such efforts if there wasn't so much gatekeeping.
They should instead tread carefully and dispose of all Greek letters in their code to ensure you are not put off, because that's the real reason that stops you from making useful contributions?
No. I suggested I myself have seen gatekeeping and referenced your comment as example. Make of that what you will, but don't extrapolate it to a conspiracy theory I didn't suggest.