Message from @Hagel
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you only truly understand something if you can derive it
I haven't got a good grasp on calculus yet.
in my field I am notorious for being the guy who actually digs up the first papers on the subject and traces the chain of discovery from the beginning, questioning basic assumptions along the way. I think it's really important to do that
yeah and even more, if you understand why it needed to be derived
Agree!
calculus is amazing, i would recommend learning it
I wish I had more of a reason to finish learning it
so far I haven't really encountered any problem I need it to solve in my own life though, for better or for worse
Yeah I will learn it because I need it for my projects.
for whatever reason my life has taught me to be attentive to quality and big picture/situation/context more than precise quantity
hoo boy I am screwed up today
morning migraine, now coked up on an assload of caffeine, stumbling and groaning
What drove me to learn math on my own as an adult was to realize projects I was thinking of so I struggled to learn all the necessary steps on the way to acheive the end goal. I like to work that way because you have a goal, and you have to learn a variety of sometimes completely new things.
Through the projects it gives the math an immediate purpose.
Then it's easier to learn.
is this in the field of graphic design?
yeah and as you applied it to a specific goal you desired, you probably remember it more easily
you should post these gifs on r/dataisbeautiful and r/oddlysatisfying
you could roll in upvotes
In the past, we would put people like White Pride World Wide into groups so they could channel their autism together for every one's benefit
Today we fail them in school
This is the final result of the decision to learn math after many failed attempts over the years I finally succeded after just understanding vectors. So from that point it took almost a year to finish it.
yeah clearly this is a gift he has
who knows what this guy could invent
a method if not a physical device
There was a community during the medieval era which tried to figure out how to solve polynomials of increasing degree
Everyone wanted the glory of taking it one step farther
I do this thing where I might pick something up to learn, but eventually give up. Some time passes, then I go at it again, I give up again, then after a number of tries I eventually always get it.
if I were fuhrer he's the guy I would commission to make the deep learning software to crunch racial quality scores from a huge database of profiles containing a few head photographs and other personal info
I think things sometimes have to take time.
maths definitely does
But you don't need to entirely give up.
math is one of those things that seems to improve by revelation/"eureka!" moments
it's often described as constantly bumping into walls until you know the layout of the area
only makes sense that it requires backing off to let things settle in your mind at times
there's an amazing documentary about this actually, about the guy who solved fermat's last theorem in the 90s
That cabinet is the first CAD model I ever designed.
And the game that runs on the arcade is the first software that was something I've coded from scratch.