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The title is alluding to an old article called „The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences“ by physicist Eugene Wigner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...

Most people recognize the reference, it's a very overused reference, hence PCs complaint.

And "considered harmful" was popularized by the Dijkstra’s article "GOTO Statement Considered Harmful".

I think at this point everyone knows that.

https://xkcd.com/2501/

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/

I think at this point everyone's seen this comic.

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