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by bauldursdev 21 days ago
This is much much more complex than a traditional program, which can be followed line by line. Trying to understand every bit of the literal logic is like trying to understand a person by thinking about the neurons fired in their brain to make them say or do something.

Unfortunately you have to learn to let go, and say, "I'll never be able to keep this all in my head", and learn to think about it in terms of of the outputs/inputs and how you can create a model capable of efficiently modeling your problem and how parameters can be nudged to get an output which is kinda shaped how you want.

Maybe some really genius savant could keep it all in their head but I doubt it, like I said it'd be like trying to understand a person by reasoning about their neural pathways.