azuarc posted...
And to those who say "just look it up," I have no idea why, but as good a reader I am and as fast a learner I am, I seem to lack the ability to understand anything technical in written form. So unless somebody explains it to me, sadly, I probably never will understand it.
I can sympathize with this. There are definitely ways in which my brain just does not learn effectively. I actually got out of academic mathematics for similar reasons--I just didn't like reading research papers--not that I could never understand them, but math research papers are a whole new level of special where you need to spend about an hour on every paragraph to understand it, even if you know the field very, very well. I decided "screw that" and now I make videogames.
But if your brain works like that...WHY are you reading research papers? Research papers are BY DEFINITION technical results in written form.
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