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• Pankh

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  I'm looking for feedback on this, mostly just to make that sure my notation and theory is correct and that my explanation is as clear as possible. I know it's pretty dumbed-down, but it's supposed to be for novices. And it's about the intuition behind it, not the ability to apply the algorithm - any linear algebra course will take care of that for you. I've spent a lot of time lately trying to make matrix multiplication click conceptually for me, and my goal with this is to create some kind of explanation that I wish I had had earlier that would have made it easier to really understand the motivation behind the formal definition (as opposed to the Hadamard Product, for example).
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  What is a matrix multiplication?
  
  In mathematics, matrix multiplication or matrix product is a binary operation that produces a matrix from two matrices.
  
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  Quote: Originally posted by Pankh on Feb 14, 2019

  I'm looking for feedback on this, mostly just to make that sure my notation and theory is correct and that my explanation is as clear as possible. I know it's pretty dumbed-down, but it's supposed to be for novices. And it's about the intuition behind it, not the ability to apply the algorithm - any linear algebra course will take care of that for you. I've spent a lot of time lately trying to make matrix multiplication click conceptually for me, and my goal with this is to create some kind of explanation that I wish I had had earlier that would have made it easier to really understand the motivation behind the formal definition (as opposed to the Hadamard Product, for example).

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