QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷) on Twitter: "@DaltonDEmery @antirobust i bet there are cheaper ways you can do that but also i see the appeal of the fantasy lol" / Twitter

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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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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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i bet there are cheaper ways you can do that but also i see the appeal of the fantasy lol

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