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.
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Replying to @clkunzang
@clkunzang and all the variables are called “x”. deliberate obfuscation if you ask me1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness Problem with notation is no effective way to load reader macros without replaying very long source files from the beginning.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @clkunzang
@clkunzang everything about math teaching is designed to make it unnecessarily difficult, I think1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness Is there a non-cynical interpretation for why that might be?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @clkunzang
@clkunzang well I think the cynical interpretation is probably mostly right. However, …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@clkunzang … it’s also related to the foundational crisis in math in the early 20th C, and the Hilbert Program that came out of that1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@clkunzang there was a lot of paranoia that maybe math was all just squishy opinions, so it was made as formal and abstract as possible2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness Seems to be a fundamental tension in rigorous disciplines between communicating effectively now vs forever, both alienate some.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @clkunzang
@clkunzang hadn’t thought about it that way… yes, that’s probably part of what’s going on.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@clkunzang although formalisms change, so advanced math texts from 100 years ago are unreadable without extensive historical research
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