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On not being scared of math

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Written quickly for the Inkhaven Residency.[1]There’s a phenomenon I often see amongst more junior researchers that I call being scared of math.[2] That is, when they try to read a machine learning paper and run into a section with mathematical notation, their minds seem to immediately bounce off the section. Some skip ahead to future sections, some give up on understanding the section immediately, and others even abandon the entire paper.I think this is very understandable. Mathematical notatio

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