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by jimmyvalmer 1588 days ago
Attempting to learn mathematics as some sort of pattern matching... does not work

China (and other countries who put American math education to shame) disagrees.

For you, math may have been a deduction from first principles, but to us mere mortals, math is a decade-long slow reveal through wax-on-wax-off repetition.