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It took me taking a class in neural networks in my thirties to really understand matrix multiplication

• jliptzin 4y ago
  Which class?
  • thamer 4y ago
    A sibling comment to your mentioned Andrew Ng's class, and I actually had the same experience as them with the same class. You can find it by searching for Stanford CS229; the lectures are available on YouTube.
  • enkid 4y ago
    It was Andrew Ng's machine learning class on Coursera
• arcturus17 4y ago
  I did a fairly rigorous linear algebra course in school, and it went over my head despite passing it. Saw it explained in a single slide of Andrew Ng's ML course and everything clicked perfectly. Where I lived math was taught like fucking shit, it was all algebra and zero context as to why it could be useful in real-life scenarios, zero abstraction such as visualization or metaphor. Everyone involved in concocting that pedagogic aberration should feel terrible about it.
  • enkid 4y ago
    The Coursera one? That's the exact course I was thinking of.