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Hello,

I am learning math as a 39 years old to study ML in near future, I have good and bad days but more or less so far my progress has been good. The problem I have is complete recollection of concepts.

I am doing discrete math now, but if you ask me even linear equation I need a quick 5-10 mins look up before I can actually feel confident in solving problems.

I was wondering if it’s the case for others as well, if not how to reduced or eliminate this friction?

Thank you,

As the title suggests, the deeper I go into math the less early math I remember or at least deeply enough recall of it. Is this common or I need to start practicing more not to lose recall at all.

I want to clarify, I don’t forget the topic or what it does, how to approach it, I am talking about the depth of it.

If I tried really hard I could solve 1 out of 3 maybe hard problems, but medium problems I can do 8/10 perhaps with less friction and I want to keep this learning style for math going forward. Is this a good strategy, or simply put well this suffice in understanding ML related topics and papers?

Thank you,

By now we all know how frequently Agents with high confidence say something entirely false, the same with the code, default tasks or general conversation. I love that we have multi-agent systems now but they still like a core discipline, how to better understand a problem it is trying to solve.

Alright, before the powerscalers start measuring reiatsu with a ruler, hear me out.
Bleach is not just vaguely inspired by Buddhist cosmology. The structure of the universe is built around samsara.
Souls move through different realms. They die, return, lose memories, retain memories, transform, become trapped, get purified, get recycled. The Human World, Soul Society, Hueco Mundo and Hell aren’t even necessarily all the realms that exist. We have Sajin’s realm and hints of more.
Everyone is trapped inside a cosmological machine.
Attachments, desires, duties, relationships, revenge, loyalty, power. Everyone is chasing something, and the chase keeps them inside the cycle.
Before the current worlds were created, reality was one primordial world. Death as we understand it didn’t exist. The Soul King changed that.
And this is where I think people completely misunderstand him.
The Soul King wasn’t overpowered by five noble ancestors like some idiot who forgot to activate his Bankai.
This is one of the most powerful beings in the entire story. He possesses the Almighty, apparently at a level beyond Yhwach, and can perceive the future.
You really think a bunch of nobles just jumped him, chopped him into pieces and turned him into a battery?
No.
He participated willingly.
The creation of the current worlds was not something that simply happened to him.
He allowed it.
My theory is that Kubo is showing us the creation of Māra within the Bleach cosmology.
The Soul King becomes the linchpin holding samsara together.
He creates the prison and becomes its central prisoner, but eventually finds his own escape route through his descendants, his flesh and ultimately Yhwach.
And this is where the Kaiser Gesang becomes extremely suspicious.
Who wrote the prophecy?
Seriously.
Who?
We are given an incredibly precise prophecy describing the return of the Quincy King.
900 years for his heartbeat.
90 years for his intellect.
9 years for his power.
9 days to regain the world.
Everyone treats this like cool villain foreshadowing.
I think it was bait.
The prophecy is the hook.
Yhwach is the fish.
The son returns, absorbs the father, takes his place as the linchpin, and the original Soul King is finally released from the position holding the cycle together.
The Soul King didn’t fail to escape.
He escaped by replacing himself.
And this is why Aizen and Urahara are the two most important characters in Bleach.
They aren’t merely the two smartest people in the story.
They are two people who understand that they are trapped.
Everyone else is fighting over positions inside the prison.
Captain.
Commander.
King.
Quincy.
Shinigami.
Hollow.
Aizen and Urahara are studying the walls.
Aizen tries to transcend the system.
And he fucks up.
Badly.
He thinks becoming something beyond Shinigami and Hollow will free him, but instead he becomes an entity of such overwhelming spiritual existence that he is even more deeply trapped.
Look at the emphasis placed on his reiatsu when he returns.
His existence itself destroys weaker beings.
His weapon is basically obliteration.
He tried to escape the prison by becoming too powerful for it and accidentally made himself into something that cannot easily leave it.
Then comes his conversation with Urahara after his defeat.
People read that conversation at the surface level and miss what is actually happening.
These aren’t two random characters exchanging philosophy after a fight.
These are probably the two most intelligent people in the entire cosmology discussing the nature of the Soul King and the structure of reality.
Urahara saves Aizen from becoming another fish swimming toward the same hook.
And Aizen changes after this conversation.
He chooses isolation in Muken.
He stops chasing.
That matters.
Urahara, meanwhile, figured something out long before Aizen did.
Look at his Bankai.
It doesn’t simply destroy things.
It restructures them.
Disassembles.
Reconstructs.
Changes the structure of whatever it touches.
Reality, for Urahara, is editable.
And unlike Aizen, Urahara stopped chasing transcendence.
He runs a candy shop.
He observes.
He experiments.
He prepares.
And because this is Urahara, there is always another contingency behind the contingency behind the contingency.
I think both of them are looking for a genuine escape from the Bleach cosmology.
Not escape from Soul Society.
Not escape to Hueco Mundo.
Not escape from Hell.
Escape from the entire cycle.
The Hell chapter makes this even darker.
Captain-class Shinigami cannot return to the cycle because their spiritual density is too great.
They are sent to Hell.
Even the strongest people in the universe eventually discover that the system has another cage waiting underneath the previous cage.
Bleach is a profoundly dark universe.
The more you understand its cosmology, the less it resembles a functioning afterlife and the more it resembles a prison.
And Kubo repeatedly hides the truth by giving us characters with incomplete knowledge, biased perspectives and outright unreliable explanations of how the universe works.
Then he uses characters like Aizen and Urahara, people who actually understand pieces of the machinery, to explain the real rules through conversations that most readers ignore because they’re waiting for the next Bankai.
Maybe I’m completely wrong.
I don’t think I am.
I think Kubo has been telling a story about samsara, Māra, attachment and escape from the beginning.
He just hid it underneath swords, perfect character designs and people arguing about who has more reiatsu.
Trust me bro.