Re:The Paper That Keeps Showing Up
by roenxi on Monday October 31, 2022 @04:12AM
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Adding to the chorus - you'll probably figure it out with enough time.
With the rise of neural nets, there is some solid circumstantial evidence that human intelligence is a re-purposing of parts of the brain evolved for vision processing (dunno what the biologists have figured out but hopefully they agree). Most of the people who I've listened to talk about how there is usually a sharp change-over moment when they go from being unable to do understand something to grasping it.
Get used to maths being impossible to understand for a long period of time, then suddenly easy to understand after that. IQ is relevant if you have to try and figure it out from first principles, but after that it probably only governs speed of learning rather than what can be done. This math in particular is not hard in the grand scheme, it is basically multiplication but a bit spiced up with multiple perspectives. And outrageously easy to implement wrong.
Although if you try to approach math expecting to be able to 'see' the answer with concepts you already understand it'll be painful. Real Math (TM, taught by Real Scotsmen) is learning to see things that you couldn't see before. The expectation is to encounter concepts that initially you can only access by symbol manipulation and in time, with training, become intuitive suddenly after a long period of practice.
With the rise of neural nets, there is some solid circumstantial evidence that human intelligence is a re-purposing of parts of the brain evolved for vision processing (dunno what the biologists have figured out but hopefully they agree). Most of the people who I've listened to talk about how there is usually a sharp change-over moment when they go from being unable to do understand something to grasping it.
Get used to maths being impossible to understand for a long period of time, then suddenly easy to understand after that. IQ is relevant if you have to try and figure it out from first principles, but after that it probably only governs speed of learning rather than what can be done. This math in particular is not hard in the grand scheme, it is basically multiplication but a bit spiced up with multiple perspectives. And outrageously easy to implement wrong.
Although if you try to approach math expecting to be able to 'see' the answer with concepts you already understand it'll be painful. Real Math (TM, taught by Real Scotsmen) is learning to see things that you couldn't see before. The expectation is to encounter concepts that initially you can only access by symbol manipulation and in time, with training, become intuitive suddenly after a long period of practice.