An annoying aspect of having mathematics training: if you want to learn about a new topic, X, you'd like to read "X made easy", but most people's idea of "X made easy" is to present X with as much mathematics removed as possible, and that's what most tutorials out there look like to me.

@dpiponi are there different types of "documentation" for math? I've found the division into 4 kinds of documentation for software tremendously useful. I recommend it to everyone who writes software documentation because it makes life easier: documentation.divio.com/

@mjambon @dpiponi I feel like the de facto system is: research papers, survey papers, lecture notes, textbooks, and grad student blogs

@j2kun @mjambon It's 2024, you need to have YouTube videos on there! I'm not a fan of learning mathematics that way but I think the rest of the world is :)

@dpiponi @mjambon even Grant Sanderson says he doesn't think anyone actually learns anything from his videos. It's infotainment, not documentation.

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@j2kun @dpiponi sure. Whatever you call it. I think it's important for newbies.

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