Re:Machine learning is easier than it looks
by nilkn on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:05AM
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Writing it all as code would exclude nonprogrammers just as much as this excludes people not familiar with basic mathematical notation.
At least everybody should share some common mathematical instruction from school. The same certainly cannot be said of programming.
As somebody who can read both code and math, though, I'd greatly, greatly prefer to see math in math notation, not code. Code would be so much more verbose that it would take easily twice as long to digest the information. You'd also completely lose all the incredibly powerful visual reasoning that comes along with modern mathematical notation.
At least everybody should share some common mathematical instruction from school. The same certainly cannot be said of programming.
As somebody who can read both code and math, though, I'd greatly, greatly prefer to see math in math notation, not code. Code would be so much more verbose that it would take easily twice as long to digest the information. You'd also completely lose all the incredibly powerful visual reasoning that comes along with modern mathematical notation.