Comment on Is Scott Alexander bad at math?

Mon, 04 May 2015 18:58:24 GMT

Hm, interesting, I have an aversion to what I see as fluffy and low-info-density content, and I have a hard time pushing my brain in to "high gear" so I can just skim through it. I do think I can shift gears but it seems to take a few months to change my preferred reading mode.

It's interesting to speculate what math notation would be like if there were competing math notation schemes the same way there are competing programming languages; arguably math notation is terrible when judged by the standards of programming languages. reddit thread

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