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I'm glad it helped, this encourages me to write more explanations of tricky subjects :)


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Thank you for sharing this! It is helpful in explaining things easier

I wish more explanations would go like this: iteratively. It's much easier for me to see where I suddenly start to struggle. The author also used language that feels more familiar to me, which helped a lot.

Unfortunately, a lot of writers just dump the information and use terms from different fields. And I get that, but it makes me slower to understand it.


I love that it includes an explanation too. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks! Glad you liked it. It's always been a frustration of mine (even reading / writing academic papers) when the author obfuscates or makes something more complicated than it needs to be.

You only truly understand something when you can explain it in lay (or close to) terms, I find.


Glad to have helped! I often get asked to explain things by family and friends so I've got a knack for 'dumbing things down'.

Glad I could help! So satisfying to find a concise name/explanation/rule/heuristic for describing complicated phenomena. ^_^

That was a really good explanation and tip. Nicely done.

I just want to say thank you to everyone who takes the time to write explanations and publish them for free, so that people like me can learn. Be that in the form of good insides like the ones in this article, blog posts, docs, tutorials, videos, etc.

What most help me is seeing different points of view. Sometimes the first explanation doesn't make sense, or the next one, but then you find someone who explains it from a different perspective and that's the one that makes you go ooohhh!


Thanks, I did actually find that explanation useful

Thanks for writing this up. It’s one of the best explanations of this problem I’ve seen.

I loved how you used your skills to address a ~seemingly~ simple problem. The explanation was also cool

I really appreciate your feedback, thank you!

> interesting tangents

Yeah, I’ve found that explaining things by first giving an example and then generalizing often works better than trying to start with raw theory.


I'm glad you liked it! I wasn't sure that it was well explained.

Just wanted to say that I think you did a pretty good job with the explanation.

Wow I am a lot less lost after reading the explanation

This was explained really well! I feel more knowledgeable now.

I adore explanations like that! I was very good in math in school, but I always prefer this kind of explanations, that give a more intuitive vision (and it is a lot better to explain to other people).

Thanks.


Nice article. I like these kinds of explanations that go into all of the difficulties of a task that aren't obvious from the outside.

Nice article. I like these kinds of explanations that go into all of the difficulties of a task that aren't obvious from the outside.
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