Re-starting my blogging habit - putting LaTeX in Blogger posts
I vaguely remember some joy I had when I was blogging somewhat religiously. The first topic I wrote about was my journey to understand what the matrix determinant was. When I looked back at those posts, I felt that they were silly, and that I was pretty stupid. I even felt embarrassed that I wrote those posts with so much excitement and confidence even though I knew so little. Was I so blinded by the Dunning-Kruger effect? Why would people even read what I wrote. I was not even close to being an expert on the matter. There were a lot of "better-written" textbooks out there, right? But actually, after spending a bit more time going through my past work, I realized that my posts were not totally pointless despite the strong sense of "Geez, you're so noob". In fact, it is the naivety that makes blog posts stand out among many of the "better-written" serious publications. It is my belief that when the writer is just a little less clueless than the reader a...