I kind of envy that you figured this out yourself — I learned the parallelipiped hypervolume interpretation of the determinant from browsing forums (probably this MSE question’s responses). Also, please do write that blog article.
And if I keep doing that, hypothetically speaking, some of those discoveries might even be original.
Yeah, I hope you will! I’m reminded of what Scott Aaronson said recently:
When I was a kid, I too started by rediscovering things (like the integral for the length of a curve) that were centuries old, then rediscovering things (like an efficient algorithm for isotonic regression) that were decades old, then rediscovering things (like BQP⊆PP) that were about a year old … until I finally started discovering things (like the collision lower bound) that were zero years old. This is the way.
I kind of envy that you figured this out yourself — I learned the parallelipiped hypervolume interpretation of the determinant from browsing forums (probably this MSE question’s responses). Also, please do write that blog article.
Yeah, I hope you will! I’m reminded of what Scott Aaronson said recently: