There is definite truth to the idea stats people have a habit of writing deliberately impenetrable prose. (Probably due to proximity to economists and political scientists).

I happened to need to implement a markov chain for playing rock, paper, scissors in https://luduxia.com/showdown - once you actually understand it the code is short and took no more than 20 minutes to write, and was by far the easiest part of the entire effort, which was surprising. Vertically centering a div is harder, and involves dealing with even more jargon.