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Comment · 5 months ago
Coding is a tool for thinking in general.The fact that claude is accomplishing task X does not imply that you should retire you own thinking.
Comment · 5 months ago
All of human cooking

With no African recipe.

Comment · 5 months ago
It is because it is populous that it does not have space for foreigners?
Comment · 6 months ago
A better question would have been..who would you consider a formidable rival?
Comment · 1 year ago
How many people on here can truly say that they were considering between two different countries. That doesn’t happen at scale.

Mmmh...How about four countries?US,UK,Canada &South Africa.

As a student,though

Comment · 1 year ago
It is easy to understand the equations if you have physical intuition of what is going on.Then derive from first principles.Memorizing formulas is the key to failing advance math.
Comment · 1 year ago
Are you saying that because they end with "Algebra"?You can get an A+ in basic Algebra and have no clue about Abstract Algebra.It is the chain of reasoning rather than the mindless manipulation present in baby Algebra.
Comment · 1 year ago
Geometry is fundamental to physics and chemistry,not Algebra.Look at the thinking style,not the content.
Comment · 1 year ago
Analytical geometry underlies calculus,not Algebra.And combinatorics is a completely different arm of the two cultures of mathematics.Also Geometry was fine before Rene Descartes messed it up with Algebra and then we christened it Analytical Geometry.The method of exhaustion,amply developed by Archimedes with zero Algebra is the basis of intergration.It is because we start out with differentiation that we think Algebra is super important.Tom Apostol comes close in his calculus textbook when he actually starts with intergration.

A compromise would be to have two streams:The left-brained folks should follow the Algebra ->Geometry->Calculus track;the right-brained folks should have a Combinatorics ->Geometry ->Calculus track.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yes.

Substitute Algebra with Combinatorics and you will be fine.I do not understand this Algebra worship.Speaking as someone who graduated magna cum laude in in College Math.

Comment · 1 year ago
How does that relate to AI?
Comment · 1 year ago
Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization, which is, of course, what this is all about: Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.

Agent Smith,The Matrix(1999)

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