There are coutless good quotes to the effect of “if you can’t explain it accessibly, you don’t understand it”, and I feel like a disproportionate number come from physicists.
A related idea I love is Tim Chow's idea of "solving a previously unsolved expository problem". With enough effort & imagination I believe we can make great progress on these problems even for such supposedly hard subjects as quantum field theory, rocket science etchttps://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1038476966997852160 …
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Which domains do you think most embrace the idea that refining exposition is as worthy of one’s time as extending the boundary of knowledge? E.g. my impression is that math (folks like Tim Chow aside) is leagues behind physics and CS in this respect.
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None, AFAICT. I don't think physics does particularly. Things like the Feynman lectures are often treated as outliers - valuable, but not really part of what a physicist does, another example of F's eccentricity.
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In some sense, this is why I started https://physicstravelguide.com . It’s an expository wiki where everyone can help to refine how we explain physics concepts.
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It'd be great if
@distillpub did thishttps://twitter.com/girishsastry/status/962143233147940864 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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