they should’ve called it “amateur intelligence”. not in a derogatory way… but it helps amateurs like me venture into other fields. and it mostly produces amateur results. whether that’s ok or not depends on what you’re trying to do
people who say stochastic parrots etc: skill issue. i couldn’t for the life of me understand Lp spaces when i read about them two years ago, but chatting to claude for a few minutes helped me get the right idea. you *do* absolutely need to learn to ask the right questions but it’s extremely useful
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he keeps doing it! i’m glad this moved to a separate repo. seems like, ten chapters in, might be a good time for me to revisit Analysis from the Lean perspective [github.com/teorth/analy...](
the biggest adjustment in learning mathematics is when somebody says “we can easily show it”, it might still mean you have to spend half the page doing it. that’s normal
maybe it’s worth clarifying explicitly but whenever i complain about the algo, i mean it in extrapolated terms. if it’s shitty for me, it’s probably shitty for a lot of people. it’s definitely MUCH shittier than X algo. if this site wants to win, it needs to get its algo in order
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watched vercel ship 2025, kinda sad there was almost no talk about next.js. i guess there’s nothing new there per se but an update on “use cache” and dynamic IO would’ve been nice
not sure when that happened but mathematical education videos are really good these days. in the past it used to be 3b1b for precise stuff and some more pop channels for intuition/history but now i feel like even precise stuff has good and approachable treatment. really a golden age
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