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What is something that was explained to you wrong such that you could never understand it, and you received a clarifying explanation that finally made sense? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Did you take linear algebra?

Did you ever understand eigenvectors? (I didn't.)

BEHOLD

They could have showed me this video, and saved me quite a lot of time and difficulty.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Love 3blue1brown

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had no idea there even was a graphical interpretation of matrices, why did no one tell me this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You should watch the whole series if you haven't yet; it is phenomenal. There's another one on calculus (in addition to videos on all sorts of great stuff) but the linear algebra one is just especially mind blowing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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the whole series

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

behold

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.