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Framing Practicum - LessWrong

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Framing Practicum Much of the value I get from math is not from detailed calculations or elaborate models, but rather from framing tools: tools which suggest useful questions to ask, approximations to make, what to pay attention to and what to ignore. Each of these posts is meant to train/practice one mathematical framing tool. The structure is like a trigger-action pattern: the hard part is to notice a pattern, a place where a particular tool can apply (the “trigger”). Once we notice the pattern, it suggests certain questions or approximations (the “action”). Each of these posts contains…

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