In the process of learning about a family of algorithms in machine learning I also gained some physical intuition of determinants (same diagram as 3Blue1Brown,

In the process of learning about a family of algorithms in machine learning I also gained some physical intuition of determinants (same diagram as 3Blue1Brown, but applied in a different context of "squashing and stretching" probability mass): https://blog.evjang.com/2018/01/nf1.html https://blog.evjang.com/2018/01/nf1.html