Paul Graham on Twitter: "11 yo tried to get out of doing his math homework on the grounds that the questions were, technically, valid answers. I explained that what he's really doing, and what most math is, is transforming quantities to a more useful form."

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1. ‏ @bayesianmarxist 27 Apr 2020
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  *applied math
  
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1. Shawn Pereira ‏ @Incept_shawn 27 Apr 2020
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  Smart kid. School math is mostly just transformation as you've said. I wonder how kids would take to learning a concept like how mathematicians came up with it. eg. Explaining the astronomy problems that led Newton to come up with calculus
  
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1. Ganesh‏ @ganesh__s 27 Apr 2020
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  So precocious. Reminds me of what Herbert Simon said. All math is change of representation: making evident what was before true, but obscure.
  
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1. Tim Berglund‏ @tlberglund 27 Apr 2020
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  And the skill he’s learning is the intuition to recognize in the presented problem what set of transformation tools apply. The transformation itself is mechanical. (15 years of math homeschooling summarized there. )
  
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1. James Slezak‏ @jslez 27 Apr 2020
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  Soon he’ll explain that power plants don’t generate energy but reduce the amount of usable energy in the world and contribute to the ultimate heat death of the universe
  
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1. Jinx Da Cat‏ @jinxdacat1 27 Apr 2020
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  Your 11 yo has a bright future as a, SCOTUS justice with a earned reputation for, uh, "creative" jurisprudence.
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1. pranav_modi‏ @pranav_modi 27 Apr 2020
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  :) another useful lesson might be, can't always get out of work by using clever arguments... maybe for another time.
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