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Re:Quaternions: A Practical Guide by keepquestioning on Monday August 15, 2022 @02:18PM (#32473322)
Add to the list

- Hidden Markov Models

- Kalman filters

Things which have tutorials that continually fail to explain the tao of the thing.

Re:Quaternions: A Practical Guide by pklausler on Monday August 15, 2022 @02:44PM (#32473616)
Don't forget monad tutorials!
Re:Quaternions: A Practical Guide by eternityforest on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @03:28AM (#32480156)
Kalman filters are so interesting. As far as I can tell they are one of the very simplest things one can do that requires a real understanding of math.

It doesn't seem like you can just drop in a library, in the general case, or if you can, it doesn't seem to be common practice.

Usually things that need an actual understanding are either totally novel, or solved problems with existing tools.

Kalman filters are where you find out that you really did need math all along, if you're like me and don't really see math in everyday life.

I suspect there's still a way to fake your way through if you need to and have a day or two to study, but the first time you see it it really shows what you don't know.

It's like when you see non physicists talking about physics and feel amazed at how they managed to seemingly understand maxwells equations just for fun.

Re:Quaternions: A Practical Guide by wwweston on Monday August 15, 2022 @07:08PM (#32476729)
Are there any tutorials successfully convey the tao of those things?
Re:Quaternions: A Practical Guide by keepquestioning on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @10:56AM (#32483606)
No