I still think this paper is incredibly based. Like spillthrough from a universe with radically different math.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00061
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Like a solution a small child would come up with.
"How can we solve this system of equations?"
"Let's draw the graphs, put them next to each other, and look for points where they agree"
Fucking amazing.
Maybe those "integrate by cutting the area under the graph out and weighing it" guys were on to something