Thanks for pointing this out. A good spike in my programming skills has happened when I started directly reading the code instead of the documentation. The situations seems very similar to the one described in the post.
Yes—but from the post’s author perspective, it’s not super nice to put in one sentence what he took eight paragraphs to express. So you should think about that as well...
The original post has much more value than the one-sentence summary, but having a one-sentence explanation of the commonality between the mathematical example and the programming example can be useful.
I would say it is perhaps not nice to provide that sort of summary but it is kind.
I thought it was a great way to put it and I appreciated it a lot! I’m not even sure the post has more value than the summary; at the very least that one sentence adds a lot of explanatory power imho.
Thanks for pointing this out. A good spike in my programming skills has happened when I started directly reading the code instead of the documentation. The situations seems very similar to the one described in the post.
The general lesson is that understanding the thing directly is better than understanding someone else’s explanation of the thing.
Yes—but from the post’s author perspective, it’s not super nice to put in one sentence what he took eight paragraphs to express. So you should think about that as well...
The original post has much more value than the one-sentence summary, but having a one-sentence explanation of the commonality between the mathematical example and the programming example can be useful.
I would say it is perhaps not nice to provide that sort of summary but it is kind.
I thought it was a great way to put it and I appreciated it a lot! I’m not even sure the post has more value than the summary; at the very least that one sentence adds a lot of explanatory power imho.