"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm not posting a shallow dismissal. I'm legitimately asking what this applies to since I didn't see anything in the article about potential application. It's fine if there aren't any potential applications too, just like the videos/articles about Rubik's Cubes solving - the people/solutions are impressive even if it doesn't have any practical applications.

I would say the main marker of shallow dismissal in your comment was the "Ok, but" (and to some extent the "Like how"). If you say you were asking out of curiosity, I believe you, but in that case your comment pattern-matched to the opposite of your intent, because a question asked out of curiosity would not normally include those markers and would not normally be phrased this way.

Hmm, interesting. I'll try to avoid that pattern of speech in the future.

You must be confused, the title specifies computer science and mathematicians - the default assumption here should be that if it is useful no one is going to realize for some decades.

> Ok, but what's the use of this data set?

Same use as the rest of mathematics: Entertainment for those interested in the topic.