I really like how the posts in this sequence use technical analogies. You refer to some advanced concepts like expanders, but they don’t feel tacked into the ideas. I even learned about implict representation of graphs! (though I knew bounded-degree graphs)
One nitpick is that Ramanujan probably had an amazing Prune too. I feel he’s impressive because he was right so many times. And when he went astray, it was apparently because his lack of schooling in mathematics made him overlooks some aspects of the problem. That feels like the combination of an amazing Babble and Prune, with the Babble getting the better of the Prune for the mistakes.
I really like how the posts in this sequence use technical analogies. You refer to some advanced concepts like expanders, but they don’t feel tacked into the ideas. I even learned about implict representation of graphs! (though I knew bounded-degree graphs)
One nitpick is that Ramanujan probably had an amazing Prune too. I feel he’s impressive because he was right so many times. And when he went astray, it was apparently because his lack of schooling in mathematics made him overlooks some aspects of the problem. That feels like the combination of an amazing Babble and Prune, with the Babble getting the better of the Prune for the mistakes.