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> Also, it seemed that learning and understanding wasn't their primary goal rather than having beautiful lecture notes. Bingo. I commented the same thing and

> Also, it seemed that learning and understanding wasn't their primary goal rather than having beautiful lecture notes. Bingo. I commented the same thing and someone else even suggested solving exercises in latex. Wtf what's wrong with people here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39260895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39260895

KolenCh 3y ago
But I once has a math student in my physics class who prefer submitting her assignment typeset in LaTeX. I told her it’s up to her, but it wasn’t a requirement from us. She basically said it would be more difficult to do the assignment otherwise and she would prefer LaTeX instead. To this day I still don’t understand how it would be easier,l. But I also seen some people prefer doing “analysis” by printing out a plot. To me that’s very inefficient and using interactive plots are much better. I guess the situation is similar, that the ways we think are so different that we can’t imagine how people doing it otherwise would be simpler / better in any way. (You could imagine carrying the next step in a derivation can be much simpler as you can just duplicate the line and modify from there. Also macros can help. With enough abstraction it could be easier in some way.)
- beagle3 3y ago
  I used to submit math assignments in Word for Windows 2.0 (or 6.0, whichever was current in 1994) equation editor - i didn’t have access to a reasonable latex setup at the time. The reason was that my handwriting was slow, messy and hard to read. Taking the effort to write a nice “submission” quality assignment would easily take two or three times as much as it would take me using Word.
  - KolenCh 3y ago
    Thanks for sharing, I haven't thought that could be a contributing factor too. And I appreciate your effort as a former grader—some of the hand writings are impossible to read and they don't seem to put an effort to make my life easier...

KolenCh 3y ago

But I once has a math student in my physics class who prefer submitting her assignment typeset in LaTeX. I told her it’s up to her, but it wasn’t a requirement from us. She basically said it would be more difficult to do the assignment otherwise and she would prefer LaTeX instead. To this day I still don’t understand how it would be easier,l. But I also seen some people prefer doing “analysis” by printing out a plot. To me that’s very inefficient and using interactive plots are much better. I guess the situation is similar, that the ways we think are so different that we can’t imagine how people doing it otherwise would be simpler / better in any way. (You could imagine carrying the next step in a derivation can be much simpler as you can just duplicate the line and modify from there. Also macros can help. With enough abstraction it could be easier in some way.)

beagle3 3y ago
I used to submit math assignments in Word for Windows 2.0 (or 6.0, whichever was current in 1994) equation editor - i didn’t have access to a reasonable latex setup at the time. The reason was that my handwriting was slow, messy and hard to read. Taking the effort to write a nice “submission” quality assignment would easily take two or three times as much as it would take me using Word.
- KolenCh 3y ago
  Thanks for sharing, I haven't thought that could be a contributing factor too. And I appreciate your effort as a former grader—some of the hand writings are impossible to read and they don't seem to put an effort to make my life easier...