Taking Andrew Ng's machine-learning course. Good stuff. One reason math is hard when you're not 'in it'. My god, it's full of reader macros.
@clkunzang … it’s also related to the foundational crisis in math in the early 20th C, and the Hilbert Program that came out of that
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@clkunzang there was a lot of paranoia that maybe math was all just squishy opinions, so it was made as formal and abstract as possible -
@Meaningness Seems to be a fundamental tension in rigorous disciplines between communicating effectively now vs forever, both alienate some. - 2 more replies
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