Unreasonable effectiveness is all you need.

Given how much of the talk is about the original paper the title references, and how the Fourier transform turns out to be unreasonably effective at allowing communication over noisy channels, I'd say it's a reasonable reference.

It's a play on the famous essay 1960 "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".

I agree this is getting old after 75 years. Not least because it seems slightly manipulative to disguise a declarative claim ("The Fourier transform is unreasonably effective."), which could be false, as a noun phrase ("The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform"), which doesn't look like a thing that can be wrong.

The Antipode of unreasonable effectiveness ness

Agreed, these kind of titles are very silly.

FTs are actually very reasonable, in the sense that they are a easy to reason about conceptually and in practice.

There's another title referenced in that link which is equally asinine: "Eugene Wigner's original discussion, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences". "

Like, wtf?

Mathematics is the language of science, science would not compound or be explainable, communicable, or model-able in code without mathematics.

It's actually both plainly obvious for mathematics then to be extremely effective (which it is) and also be evidently reasonable as to why, ergo it is not unreasonably effective.

Also the slides are just FTs 101 the same material as in any basic course.

How about The unreasonable effectiveness title considered harmful?

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of LLMs.

Ironically a very relevant and accurate title.