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317 points diwank | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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mlajtos ◴[15 Oct 24 20:41 UTC] No.41852875[source]▶
iPad mini 2024 with Pencil Pro and Math Notes is going to revolutionize math education.
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hggigg ◴[15 Oct 24 21:01 UTC] No.41853078[source]▶
Mathematician here. No it's really not. Having used it extensively it craps out all the time, fails to parse things properly, doesn't understand anything other than a very narrow undefined subset of anything that needs to be done and generally makes things harder.

It sure looks like it would though.

Noteful and a competent calculator with CAS functionality on the other hand might be a different outcome.

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1. mlajtos ◴[21 Oct 24 18:44 UTC] No.41907091[source]▶
Parsing traditional 2D math notation is super hard problem and this is first public version. Things will get better with time.

But you hit the nail on the head with "narrow undefined subset". Documentation on Math Notes is almost non-existent. There are standards for math notation, so I guess they will announce it when they match parity. Again, too soon.

I agree that capabilities are extremely limited. More than CAS I would like to see native support for differentiable tensors – https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper-2