Dustin comments on Is Scott Alexander bad at math? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dustin 04 May 2015 09:37:14PM 0 points [-]

I almost immediately start glazing over when I see some math in a text and it takes real effort to make myself pull it apart.

I find that I almost always understand an algorithm when implemented in a programming language with much less effort than if I'm reading it in some mathematical notation.