Re:Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008)
by mindcrime on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @05:27PM
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I now regret not taking calculus, but it's so much easier to learn something these days.
It's funny to hear you say that. I don't know how old you are, but lately I've been trying to teach myself some additional math that I never took before (like Linear Algebra) and refreshing on Calculus, and now - at the ripe old age of 42 - I swear I find it easier to learn this stuff than I did when I was in college 20 some odd years ago.
Maybe it's just a question of motivation, or maybe I have more context available now, or, hell, maybe I've gotten smarter... but whatever it is, I'm not going to complain, considering how you always hear about how our minds slow down as we age and things are supposed to get harder to learn.
It's funny to hear you say that. I don't know how old you are, but lately I've been trying to teach myself some additional math that I never took before (like Linear Algebra) and refreshing on Calculus, and now - at the ripe old age of 42 - I swear I find it easier to learn this stuff than I did when I was in college 20 some odd years ago.
Maybe it's just a question of motivation, or maybe I have more context available now, or, hell, maybe I've gotten smarter... but whatever it is, I'm not going to complain, considering how you always hear about how our minds slow down as we age and things are supposed to get harder to learn.