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by ordu 10y ago
I think problem is deeper. If one predicts heads as result of coin toss and other predicts tails, than one of them will be right. It says nothing about their abilities to predict. We always can find some outlier who predicts results differe
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I agree with "we should teach mathematics to non-mathematicians in the same way we do to mathematicians". But I do not agree with teaching mathematicians the same way as we do to non-maths. I personally was taught like non-math. A
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> And more importantly, there's no reason to believe intuition works... Yes, there is. Humans are alive, they survived the evolution and they used intuition much more frequently then rationality. Logic was invented by greeks less th
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> in languages like Python, with syntax built-in, people build large apps without ever doing this, making their code far more understandable for the next person that touches it. No. Lack of macros makes code bigger, more error prone and
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> When calling a simple function like this within a large loop, would it make a noticeable difference in speed to inline the computation vs. having a function call? Maybe. Inlining small functions can reduce cache load, and it means no c
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If they don't know where to stop, then how they can learn where to stop? The only way, I think, is making errors. It's nothing bad in taking a glimpse of something too difficult to understand. Even failed attempts to understand so