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How do you approach a dense equation in a paper you need to implement?
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Identify every symbol and its shape, rewrite it in words, substitute small numbers and check extreme cases, then write it as code with shape comments and test it on a case where I know the answer.
Reading an answer is not being able to give one. The section that teaches this is Reading the maths in papers, 4 hours of Reading papers.
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