Comment on Is Scott Alexander bad at math?

Mon, 04 May 2015 18:30:55 GMT

That resembles what happens to me when I have to 'read some math'. I hated integrals and multivariate equations because solving them always took so long, and somewhere halfway through I invariably began thinking 'okay, we did this and then broken off this piece to pretend it's actually like that, though we'll have to weld it back on someday... is there really no meaning to what we've already done, except that in some distant future we'll write the final "="?..'

In highschool physics, when they gave you an equation, you sure could use it as kind of a lever to turn the model Earth.

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