(This is a writeup of Exercise 1.3 [https://tgvaughan.github.io/sicm/chapter001.html#Exe_1-3] from Sussman and Wisdom's "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics". See the solutions repository [https://github.com/sritchie/sicm] for more.) * Law of Reflection * Geometry * Calculus * Law of Refraction »

In my ongoing quest to lay a more solid foundation for this new, strange life as a machine learning "researcher", I've been going through various foundational concepts and ideas and trying to build up rock solid intuitions that I can lean on for years. (Why the »