I'm saving you time. Those platforms are optimizing for user-engagement hours noob you don't need to learn half of this shit
I am sorry but anyone doubting mathacademy is a dimwit
Nope. One of their core tenets is rigor
I am TELLING you that you will NEVER need to know how you get from spectral theory to principal component analysis
Their courses are harder than college classes
Dont care.
I know these things but I am a special big boy
Now that I've seen the truths I can't blend in the ordinary society any longer
We teach math as if we were training an aspiring professional athlete or musician, or anyone
looking to acquire a skill to the highest degree possible. This isn't edutainment, this isn't
enrichment, this isn't a “math appreciation” course. We expect our students to actually master
the material and develop as strong a command over math as a musician's command over their
instrument. If that's not what you want to get out of your math learning, then Math Academy
probably isn't a good fit for you.
But if mastery is what you want to get out of your math learning, then it's important to realize
that climbing a skill hierarchy like math is not just about conceptual understanding. It's also
about reliable execution – and a high frequency of silly mistakes indicates that you need more
practice with the material.
Why? Because if you don't clean up your silly mistakes on low-level skills, then you eventually
hit a wall where no matter how hard you try, you're unable to reliably perform advanced skills
due to the compounding probability of silly mistakes in the component skills. Think about
gymnastics: if you’re “almost” able to land a backflip, then that’s great… but at the same time,
you’re not ready to try any combo moves of which a backflip is a component. Even if it’s a silly
mistake keeping you from landing the backflip, you still have to rectify it. (And this is the most
optimistic scenario – other times, silly mistakes indicate a deeper conceptual misunderstanding
that you don't even know you have until you are held accountable for rectifying those mistakes.)
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Stop trying to have me see things your way and realize I'm cooking
Im spreading my religon
Jokes on you regardless; i learn these subjects on math academy and then have to learn them in the classroom as well.
There is ZERO downside.
The joke is always on you. You don't code.
I took courses in 2020.
Software Engineer? You're already done with math it's time to code
The best part about having money is i dont have to care about having a job.
You don't seem to care about engineering software, either.