Which chapter is that? It's not in the ToC
Re:Graphical Linear Algebra
by memoryfault on Friday July 11, 2025 @12:37AM
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3!
Re:Graphical Linear Algebra
by HappMacDonald on Friday July 11, 2025 @05:17AM
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Chapter 6, got it
Re:Graphical Linear Algebra
by vanderZwan on Monday July 14, 2025 @06:22AM
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It's because the graphs are visual metaphors that encode privileged information[0]. Which is an often overlooked aspect of teaching imo. Your own initial dismissive reaction kind of shows why: people don't really get the point until they realize it works, and even then they're not sure why.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140402025221/http://m.nautil.u...
But then ai realized I would always forget the names for all the mathy c' words - commutativity commutativity, qssociativity... and for the first time I could actually remember commutativity and what it means, just because he tied it into a graphical representation (which actually made me laugh out loud because, initially, I thought it was a joke). So the concept of "x + y = y + x" always made sense to me but never really stuck like the graphical representation, which also made me remember its name for the first time.
I am sold.