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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Uh? It's like any other form of knowledge.

The way to learn it is to go directly to the complex part, fail spectacularly, and only then backstep into the requirements.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is the way

Genuinely actually the way I do everything T-T

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Typical back tracing algorithm when you don't know which path to take.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Like that, yeah. But you don't even get to know what paths exist before you start walking.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Chemists learn it without being taught linear algebra ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Here, you droppen an arm: \

With most markdown renderers you need to use ¯\\\_ (ツ)_/¯, first to escape the \ and then to escape the _ so it doesn't think you want italics with _ (ツ)_, but looks like Lemmy's is fine with ¯\\_ (ツ)\_/¯, go figure ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Me writing a machine learning thesis with the linear algebra knowledge that I completely forgot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Because you will suffer and then you will be corrupted by the demon of shortcutting and never really understanding anything. Yes, embrace the evil! Or resist the temptation and train your spirit (nothing trains the spirit better than abstract infinite vector spaces).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Harsh. Fairly factual.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I can assure you, we had to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Or understanding hermetian matrices See the bottom and the top, well there's some inverse and