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Re:Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return... by wink on Friday May 29, 2026 @04:26AM (#48320556)
Writing it down by hand and then doing OCR on a high quality photo is a completely different ball game than writing it down and... not having it in digital form though.

I'm not disagreeing at all here, I tried live latexing my math courses and it was hard. I wish I had had access to a cellphone + good digitization back then. (just scanning it in was kinda pointless and I graduated about the time Android came out)

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Re:Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return... by delta_p_delta_x on Friday May 29, 2026 @09:30AM (#48322882)
> I tried live latexing my math courses

This was by far the biggest time sink in my maths courses, and frankly, a giant waste of time. Sure, the end result looked beautiful but I think I understood less of it than if I'd just written it all down on A4 ruled paper in gel pen.

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