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by DoritoChef 2866 days ago
This really drives home a sentiment I've acquired during the course of my college education: CS/Math is often considered "hard", but I feel that's just because we've struggled with getting good visual/verbal communicators to dedicate their lives to CS/Math education. I really feel that when explained properly (and the definition of "properly" sometimes need to be adapted from person to person), topics like Gibbs Sampling or Fourier Transforms or Backpropagation aren't topics that should take entire weeks of self-study to grasp in 2018. Yes, they require some math background, but there's some strong intuition behind them. Maybe I'm just slow or thick in the skull.