Sounds like if-else with extra steps.

MIT engineers invent something -> it becomes talk of the town -> every one forgets about it the next day/week.

Not quite everyone. Last year they got $1M from the Musk Foundation and $80M from investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and they're working with their first commercial client.

https://news.mit.edu/2022/cracking-carbon-removal-challenge-....

I have a presumption that this is going to be the talk of the tech-town for the next few days.

"sorting with O(n^2) is no longer a bottleneck as we have fast processors" /s

That makes no sense. Just the brutal math of a polynomial is always going to be poor enough to notice than subpolynomial times.

Often but not always. Cool trick: any bounded limit is always O(1)!

Pick a small enough bound and an O(n^2) algorithm behaves better than an O(n log n). This is why insertion sort is used for sorting lengths less than ~64, for example.

Pick a small enough bound and certain O(n^2) algorithms will behave better than certain O(n log n) algorithms.

Big O notation doesn't take into account constant factors of overhead or plain old once-per-run overhead.

Sorry it was indeed a typo

GitHub Copilot moment

It's strange how Grant Sanderson's (aka 3Blue1Brown [1]) name hasn't come up so far.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown

While I enjoy 3blue1brown's videos they definitely fall under the umbrella of current gen "edutainment" where the goal is to make you feel like you've learned something without have anything really click.

Pretty much everyone I know who claims that 3blue1brown's video helped them understand a topic... doesn't really understand that topic at all.

3blue1brown's video can be fun for topics you already know, providing a bit of new perspective, but I sometimes wonder whether giving people the feeling of understanding without the actual understanding does more harm than good in the long run.

I can't speak generally about all of 3blue1brown's content, but the essence of linear algebra made concepts like eigenvectors and values and what they are click for me, there is no question.

I agree with the GP that you really need to work through a lot of problems to fully understand a mathematical subject. But there are a couple cases where I did have real, lasting moments of insight, and the 3B1B linear algebra series was one of them. Hearing it stated directly that the columns of a transformation matrix are the coordinates of the basis vectors after the transformation (a fact that I had somehow missed across multiple linear algebra classes) turned on a light bulb in my head.

The Borsuk-Ulam theorem is another example of something that seems obvious in hindsight but that I had never run across before.

For me it certainly helped, but only as "additional course material". When I was studying for the LinAlg exam I used the script of my professor and tried to understand chapter by chapter. Afterwards I watched those videos to "check" if I had really understood.

I think those videos are like tantalizing appetizers before you start your entrée(standard textbooks).

Tip: Use "shift + scroll" to read long quotes.

I can't seem to get this to work for me (Firefox on Windows).

Works on my Firefox on Windows, for shift + scroll focus need to be on the element you want to scroll. Arrow keys works even better

It sure does work for me, firefox on windows too.

Really?? Hmm, I wonder what's different on my setup then. Thanks for letting me know.

How do I get Shift here? (Safari on iPad)

I wish they would just use full width of my screen.

1280 pixels. This is the width that should be enough for everyone according to github.

(max-width in .container-xl. Why did they put that there? The website looks perfectly fine without it)