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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine
In late October I was demoing 0.47 and to-be-0.48 features at an exhibition. When it came to the Spray tool, I put my hand on my heart and said: "I'm sorry, guys, but I don't know what the hell half of those options mean". "No worries," - said a guy in the front row - "I'm chemist by contract. You don't scare me with Gaussian distribution."
That's not my point. You can use any terms and any math, if it is indeed critical for understanding and using a tool. But you shouldn't use them in inconsistent, poorly defined, approximate, or otherwise confusing ways. You should really put effort into explaining your terms if they are not in widespread use. When the same concept can be presented in a less technical way, as seems to be the case here, there's no reason to use scientific terminology at all.
Is Gaussian a scientific terminology ?