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When I first learnt complex numbers in school, I couldn't understand their purpose or why they are called imaginary etc.

I checked where they are used and found examples of current, magnetism etc. But I couldn't understand, electricity is a measurable physical quantity, how can you use imaginary numbers there??

Then I searched internet and found a Stack Exchange answer telling the story and how, instead of, complex (sounds like difficult) or imaginary (sounds like not useful practically), if we had better terms for them, then it would have been easier for beginners to understand them more intuitively.

It's completely true in my case.

After learning usage of vectors, thanks to Godot, for rotation and movement, and then about matrix etc. I now feel like "complex" numbers etc. are the representation of data through multiple numbers where a single value (scalars) is not enough. I may not be right in strict mathematics terms, but at least that's how I was able to understand them.

I traveled in the flight for the first time 2 months back and I find this article so similar to my experience.

I had so much confusion on the entire protocols on what is allowed and what is not and all those terminologies, such that a week before travel, I had my friend do a full end-to-end guide on everything we must do since entering an airport to coming out of it.

Even then when I visited it, it was a little different than what my friend told me. But thankfully it is not a rushy airport, so I frankly told my situation to the person issuing boarding pass and he told me in detailed manner everything (my biggest confusion was with luggages).

Unlike a bus or train which you can at the worst case run through and board, for airplanes, you need to go through a lot of checkings and phew...

When in flight, there were a few instructions, messages from pilot etc. However they spoke so fast that it was so unclear. The passangers around me were also talking a little loudly, so I couldn't understand anything.

May be from what I understand, these instructions are so regular, so people who frequent flights find it boring.

For me it was both curiosity and feae of missing important details. And since it was India, they said the instructions in both English and Hindi only (I know only a little Hindi), even though the flights were for different language speaking region.

At the end, it somehow ended up fine. But I think if it were my parents in my place, the journey could have been a nightmare :)

Update: it was my ISP. After switching networks and flushing the cache, it fails for me too.

Sorry for the mistake :(

(Clicked "hide" option in the post from my side,don't know if it is possible for me to delete it)

I found this by accident when searching for a command in `M-x`. It is really a nice lorem-ipsum generator but it adds some "subversive" words (as described in the manual), so was quite afraid to use it in public/team projects to avoid "unnecessary attention" :D.

We tried making a library for GT, but as Tao says, given the very broad scope of number of games, strategies and players, etc., giving a unified and generalized interface was quite difficult for us.

We also wanted to make a library and a simulation software to make experiments easy.

But we dropped the plan after looking at the scope. :(

If anybody has a better idea on approaching, please feel free to reach out.

Very cool (literally) stuff. I drew a straight line and it keeps spinning :D