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soVeryTired on Feb 28, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Car...

Yep, I can absolutely agree with that. It's not just the intuition that matters, the deeper details are important too.

betanalpha on Feb 28, 2017 [–]

+1. As someone who has struggled to understand math for a long time, I have come to appreciate that it's not about finding any "intuitive" description of a system but rather the one that's compatible with the underlying mathematics.

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