QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷) on Twitter: "@DaltonDEmery @antirobust sorry to hear that man :( yeah i think this is pretty common sadly. lots of, for lack of a better word, math trauma floating around" / Twitter

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Mar 6, 2021

well hm it depends on whether you mean top 1% among genpop or among experts, just realized that could go either way. among experts... hmm this is a complicated question for me to answer. depends a lot on what “experts” means, and also “better”

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@QiaochuYuan

Mar 6, 2021

i guess it depends on what you’re trying to do. i think there’s a big difference between being a research mathematician vs. other reasons you might want to pick up math. i think it is possible to get dramatically better at math by training specific subskills people don’t talk abt

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@QiaochuYuan

Mar 6, 2021

the main one i have in mind is something like “ontology building” - getting an overall sense of what the main objects in a field are, how they relate to each other, the sorts of things you can use them to do. you can often recycle a lot of this by analogy from other fields

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@QiaochuYuan

Mar 6, 2021

and i think one of my main advantages in learning math is a breadth of experience i use to pull out lots of analogies from. not an easy thing to build quickly tho, took me thousands of hours over the course of years

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sorry to hear that man :( yeah i think this is pretty common sadly. lots of, for lack of a better word, math trauma floating around

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