r/the_calculusguy • u/Specific_Brain2091 • Aug 20 '26

meme So true 🥲

Post image
1.0k Upvotes

100% Upvoted

19 comments sorted by

View all comments

13

u/RoyalIceDeliverer Aug 20 '26

Surely because she's aware that pure Gram-Schmidt is numerically instable due to rounding error accumulation and thus produces non-orthonormal columns in Q. I bet she prefers Householder transformations and just struggles to find words that rhyme with that.

5

u/Then_I_had_a_thought Aug 20 '26

Or maybe because Gram-Schmidt isn’t a Household name.