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What graphical illustration do you think this is missing? How would that make things better? Have you ever seen http://matrixmultiplication.xyz/? Great graphical illustration. Also: a really unhelpful way to understand matrix multiplication.

This is part 2 of a series, all under the same name; the first part is extensively illustrated (and I'm not sure the part 1 illustrations are all that helpful).





I agree that's a poor way to teach matrix multiplication. This topic arose last year. [0]

Don't introduce any clumsy nonstandard transformations like 'rotating' a matrix, just highlight the relevant row and column. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41402224

[1] https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/images/matrix-multiply-a.... (from https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/matrix-multiplying.html )


I kind of hate all these, because matrix multiplication is easiest to think of as simply repeated matrix-vector multiplication, which you need anyways (and earlier).

Illustrating the dot product using the projection of one vector on another conveys the geometric idea. Then it's transparent why "orthogonal" means dot product = 0.

The author seems to be taking a different tack though, and maybe doesn't want to be too tied to this particular geometric picture




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