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yhlee ([personal profile] yhlee) wrote in [personal profile] ursula 2019-10-03 12:34 am (UTC)

Your article is actually very lucid. The problem is I know juuuuuust enough math/physics to know that I am hopelessly outclassed by all the things that you are eliding. For example, I've never done tensors (although I used to watch Joe reduce 100-term tensors for his 500-level gravitational physics course senior year, ugh). The last time I attempted to teach myself category theory in order to read an extremely ambitious cross-disciplinary book on...I think it was AI or some such thing, I didn't have enough background and ended up quitting. And I likewise ran away from quantum anything--I never got that far in physics, but I audited a quantum computation/cryptology course from Prof. N. David Mermin for about two weeks before dropping out because my actual courses were killing me.

...I am the world's most inept math B.A.

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