Visual priors

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Pure intuition-building via 3Blue1Brown's visual series and Colah's Visual Information Theory — no intellectual-history context needed. The Essence of Linear Algebra series is the single most leveraged math investment you can make.

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See a matrix-vector product as a geometric transformation, not just a grid of numbers.Explain eigenvectors and eigenvalues visually.Explain what a derivative and integral are, geometrically.Understand entropy intuitively as "how much a probability distribution surprises you."

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●Essence of Linear Algebra— 3Blue1Brown (Grant Sanderson)anchor · video series
●Essence of Calculus— 3Blue1Brown (Grant Sanderson)companion · video series
●Visual Information Theory— Christopher Olah (Colah)companion · blog post
○Neural Networks— 3Blue1Brown (Grant Sanderson)optional · video series

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