Why are programmers always so attracted by these interactive/over-simplified/lightweight versions of linear algebra? They all focus on the visual aspects while ignoring the real stuff (theorems, proofs, etc.).
Because, realistically that's all programmers ever need, would be my guess. I do think linear algebra is an extremely interesting topic in its own right / outside, but yeah.
What makes someone a "programmer" vs a mathematician? If you suspended your arrogance for a few moments you might realize you've wasted our time with a question that answers itself.
I mean it's also a generalization of very little value. Is someone doing linear algebra in lean not doing "the real stuff"? What is a programmer to you? Your question is why do some people not follow an area that is tangential to them to the maximal extent? Or to some arbitrary level of "real" as you subjectively define it? Is your claim that the level of linear algebra offered here is inherently useless unless paired with the "real stuff"?
Or did you just want us all to know you are a practitioner of such arts? Gold star for you.
This is super nice. Seeing interactive graphics like this along with tutorial videos and the new Prism LaTeX editor from OpenAI make this an exciting time for math education. At the same time, AI advances on open problems in research and with LLM technology like with Axiom are making it an exciting time for math research as well.
Very nice. Clean presentation that tells you what you need to know to move from one section to the next, which is more than I can say for most of these efforts.
The 'tooltips' are also a nice touch. If someone wanted to go nuts with this concept, they could allow the user to highlight any sentence, equation, or individual symbol to bring up an 'Explain this' popup option.
Why are programmers always so attracted by these interactive/over-simplified/lightweight versions of linear algebra? They all focus on the visual aspects while ignoring the real stuff (theorems, proofs, etc.).
Because, realistically that's all programmers ever need, would be my guess. I do think linear algebra is an extremely interesting topic in its own right / outside, but yeah.
Can you read your own writing?
What makes someone a "programmer" vs a mathematician? If you suspended your arrogance for a few moments you might realize you've wasted our time with a question that answers itself.
I mean it's also a generalization of very little value. Is someone doing linear algebra in lean not doing "the real stuff"? What is a programmer to you? Your question is why do some people not follow an area that is tangential to them to the maximal extent? Or to some arbitrary level of "real" as you subjectively define it? Is your claim that the level of linear algebra offered here is inherently useless unless paired with the "real stuff"?
Or did you just want us all to know you are a practitioner of such arts? Gold star for you.
This is super nice. Seeing interactive graphics like this along with tutorial videos and the new Prism LaTeX editor from OpenAI make this an exciting time for math education. At the same time, AI advances on open problems in research and with LLM technology like with Axiom are making it an exciting time for math research as well.
Making intuitive illustrations and graphs was very time consuming.
Now with LLMs it is so much easier and faster. Hopefully books will be rewritten.
Agreed on hoping books will be rewritten. It seems to be happening, but slowly. E.g., Harvard Machine Learning Systems: https://mlsysbook.ai/vol1/
I LOVE this book! Where was it when I was learning algebra, years ago??
Thanks for posting. I wish there were many other books done similarly.
Selfishly, I'd love to see statistics, probability and advanced robotics displayed this way.
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lowkey wish I was in school again. this is so cool
Very nice. Clean presentation that tells you what you need to know to move from one section to the next, which is more than I can say for most of these efforts.
The 'tooltips' are also a nice touch. If someone wanted to go nuts with this concept, they could allow the user to highlight any sentence, equation, or individual symbol to bring up an 'Explain this' popup option.
dude i remember seeing this a long time ago from explorabl.es