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traes • yesterday at 10:26 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

If you don't find the way he presents e.g. linear algebra intuitive I think our brains must work fundamentally differently.


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gobdovan • yesterday at 11:00 PM

Even if you find them intuitive, they produce no learning gains for anyone. Take a lin alg test, watch the 'Essence of lin alg' videos, take comparable test again. I guarantee you won't see any change even if you 'understood matrices better'. They are pure mathporn.

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dboreham • yesterday at 11:34 PM

fwiw the fact that brains work fundamentally differently was my big penny dropping realization after digging into what LLMs are doing. Everything (I assert) a brain does (the function between inputs and outputs) is due to training data. There is no "instinct" and there is no "ROM-driven way to think" in any brain. It's training data all the way down. As a consequence different brains do indeed think in fundamentally different ways.