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Comment by michaelt

> Attempting to learn mathematics as some sort of pattern matching, [...] does not work; it isn't mathematics.

It's possible the author was in a "math for engineers" class

Where a math student may see a technique as a swiss army knife that can be used for loads of things, an engineer might only care for the one blade that lets them check the stability of their boost converter and pass their power supply design class.

parent michaelt 4 years ago

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