> To know what something is about, a natural way is to do it yourself.

literally what software engineers were doing for decades though

software is mostly just simple math, for the most part, until you need to do something more complex for some hairy algos lol

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password54321 19 hours ago | parent [-]

Actually, if you were to convert most software into mathematical notation it would look incomprehensible. We are not interested in gatekeeping as much by making things look more convoluted than they need to.

	▲	CuriouslyC 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is a great point. When I was learning machine learning in the early 00s, there were many papers where I would struggle to understand exactly what the mathematics was trying to communicate, but where I would look at the matlab source code and say to myself "that's all?"