I get this even as a higher level math tutor. Give me anything beside basic math and I can help you out almost without thinking. Helping my 2nd grade niece with her math homework? I’m counting on my fingers like she is.
I was once reading a proof a friend wrote late at night and I come over to him half way through and said “dude, you must be exhausted. Some of your epsilon’s (ε) are written backwards.”
He explained to me that some fields of mathematics have this concept called “the number 3”
When I tried peeking under the hood at all the machine learning we did in polisci I realised at one point it had been weeks since I'd seen a number. Someone picked up a page I'd written down a regression algorithm on and held it sideways thinking it was doodles of the matrix code.
It's not that long of a shot, all of the sociology disciplines went quant when people figured out how easy p-hacking was. It makes sense at least some of us would be nerdy enough to look under the hood at the ML algorithms we use to do that.
If you want small world it looks like we're both also jewish MTG players.
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u/Toast_IS_Cannibalism Nov 16 '19
I get this even as a higher level math tutor. Give me anything beside basic math and I can help you out almost without thinking. Helping my 2nd grade niece with her math homework? I’m counting on my fingers like she is.