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I remember getting a very helpful tip as an undergrad Math major: once you start doing senior undergrad/early graduate level classes, expect each textbook page

I remember getting a very helpful tip as an undergrad Math major: once you start doing senior undergrad/early graduate level classes, expect each textbook page to take a long time to read. Upwards of an hour is not uncommon. And I found this to be very true in my own experience. I'm always struck by this thought when I see code like this. It's not a lot of code, but if I had to actually go through and internalize it, it would certainly take me a while.

vanderZwan 6y ago
> It's not a lot of code, but if I had to actually go through and internalize it, it would certainly take me a while. Oh yeah, I definitely didn't mean to imply that it was easy code. It has that elegance that you really only see in the kind of concise code that can only be written by people who really grok the underlying system (both programming and FFT).
- content_sesh 6y ago
  For sure. As Brooks might say, code like that is high in "essential complexity". There's almost no boilerplate - there's a nearly 1:1 ratio of lines of code to important idea.