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That’s a nice approach. (It’s the same one given by bencollier earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27885681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27885
by bumbledraven 5y ago
That’s a nice approach. (It’s the same one given by bencollier earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27885681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27885681). I regard it as requiring a bit of insight, as opposed to my approach, which is more like grinding gears to reach a conclusion.
- lordnacho 5y agoThis is one of my main observations growing up with math: it's the moments of beauty and elegance that are the most exciting, but the grinding gears thing is also a necessity. They complement each other. For instance when you're just learning the basics there's a lot of these "wow what an insight" but over time you figure out that people have distilled it into a mechanical procedure, which also has some attraction to it. Something like quadratic equation turns the search for a pair of numbers that add up some one thing and multiply to another into a simple formula. You then use that mechanism to build ever more elaborate ones.