Comment by hdm41bc

Yeah, working code snippets would be great. That would provide an unambiguous implementation that someone could use to dig into the underlying functions used and learn the basic concepts that would be tedious for the author to go through.

In terms of the notation, it seemed like the author actually tried to keep his paper accessible, so my complaint isn’t with the author. My gripe is more with math notation in general.

In my opinion, unless you’ve read the appropriate textbooks or taken the right classes, math notation is hard to learn. The symbols are hard to Google for. Integral symbols, R for real numbers, sigma, delta, the round E that stands for IN are not found on a standard keyboard so it’s challenging for a layman to Google and learn that notation on their own. Math evolved over millennia and the notation wasn’t constructed with SEO in mind, so I understand why things are the way they are, but it’s a stumbling block for the uninitiated trying to learn more advanced math. Maybe there are resources like math.stackexchange out there that I’m unaware of that would help make learning notation more approachable.