I took Gilbert Strang’s course at MIT, and it profoundly shaped how I think. One fun memory: an acappella group stormed into class on Valentine’s Day to serenade a student, Prof Strang was thoroughly amused!
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IN 1999 MIT FILMED A MATH LECTURE THAT QUIETLY BECAME THE FOUNDATION OF EVERY AI MODEL YOU'VE EVER USED AND ALMOST NO ONE WAS TAUGHT TO SEE IT THAT WAY
39 minutes from Gilbert Strang, who taught this at MIT for over 60 years -- the linear algebra course an entire generation of engineers and data scientists grew up on.
-> The shift it creates: you stop seeing matrices as boring grids of numbers and start seeing them as the language of space, data, and motion itself.
School drilled you to crunch matrices by hand and never told you why. Strang shows you what they actually mean.
Every neural net, every embedding, every model you prompt is linear algebra running underneath. The math you skipped is the engine of the thing you use all day.
Memorizing the steps was never the skill -> seeing what the numbers do is. This is where it finally clicks.
Most people fear linear algebra and move on. The ones who watched this see straight into how AI actually works.
Bookmark & Watch it today, this one's a legend ↓
