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Re:Do the math: too much calculus? (2012) by FT_intern on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @04:57PM (#12747598)
Thinking in matrices and vectors is much more complicated and abstract than calculus.
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Re:Do the math: too much calculus? (2012) by microDude on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @06:31PM (#12748286)
I disagree. Especially, if you combine it with a graphical tool like Matlab or the Python libs.

Take a lower triangle matrix multiply it by a vector, and "boom" you just explained causal convolution. Wash and repeat for several other topics.

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