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This articly is quite hard to read and follow. I have some background in math but can't follow the logic in the article because author is constantly jumping from one topic to anonther. Artificial “questions” from imaginary layman are not helping, instead they confuse and dilute attention.

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The questions are not the problem. They are a variation of the Socratic method and are super useful - when used correctly - for checking your understanding, and following where the author is going to go next.

The problem is that the text is full of grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. There are missing words, confusingly run on sentences, etc. It's an unnatural read because it hasn't had an editor.

I found it quite straightforward. There isn't any "jumping around".

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