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What is something that was explained to you wrong such that you could never understand it, and you received a clarifying explanation that finally made sense? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Did you take linear algebra?

Did you ever understand eigenvectors? (I didn't.)

BEHOLD

They could have showed me this video, and saved me quite a lot of time and difficulty.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Love 3blue1brown

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I had no idea there even was a graphical interpretation of matrices, why did no one tell me this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You should watch the whole series if you haven't yet; it is phenomenal. There's another one on calculus (in addition to videos on all sorts of great stuff) but the linear algebra one is just especially mind blowing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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the whole series

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

behold

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I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.