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Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ... by enkid on Sunday January 01, 2023 @01:54PM (#34209419)
It took me taking a class in neural networks in my thirties to really understand matrix multiplication
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Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ... by arcturus17 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:41PM (#34209994)
I did a fairly rigorous linear algebra course in school, and it went over my head despite passing it.

Saw it explained in a single slide of Andrew Ng's ML course and everything clicked perfectly.

Where I lived math was taught like fucking shit, it was all algebra and zero context as to why it could be useful in real-life scenarios, zero abstraction such as visualization or metaphor. Everyone involved in concocting that pedagogic aberration should feel terrible about it.

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Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ... by enkid on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:05PM (#34210274)
The Coursera one? That's the exact course I was thinking of.
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Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ... by jliptzin on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:28PM (#34209831)
Which class?
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Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ... by thamer on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:08PM (#34210301)
A sibling comment to your mentioned Andrew Ng's class, and I actually had the same experience as them with the same class. You can find it by searching for Stanford CS229; the lectures are available on YouTube.
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Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ... by enkid on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:10PM (#34210323)
It was Andrew Ng's machine learning class on Coursera
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