dyscalculia

We'd talk about overcoming dyslexia or dyscalculia, or other cognitive biases and issues that might be surprising.

Cash strapped, but also presumably more likely than the general population to be innumerate or have dyscalculia or dyslexia.

Because if so, you've just called everyone with dyscalculia and/or acalculia stupid, and that group includes a lot of autism-spectrum engineers.

My oldest son has dyscalculia -- the numbers simply don't compute for him -- and he is a visual-spatial type, so needs the big picture (context) to understand anything.

> Estimates of the prevalence of dyscalculia range between 3 and 6% of the population.

I have dyscalculia, the math version of dyslexia.

I still think some people have dyscalculia.

I have dyscalculia that wasn't diagnosed until I was 19 and at uni, and even then it was diagnosed initially by my mate's Educational Psychology undergrad girlfriend in the pub one evening.

But he has an accommodation in math for extra time because he has a form of dyscalculia which makes him very prone to misreading and mixing up in working memory the numbers, symbols and other formulas.

I was blessed with dyscalculia so I can hardly add two numbers together, don't pay much attention to the mathematics word, but my reading indicates this is extremely difficult/humans cannot do this?

I wonder if this may be due to dyscalculia on my part, becuase the math I struggle with the most is basic arithmetic and algebra; I'm ok with the more advanced concepts, generally, except when I have to do the real number crunching.

My thinking and memory is pure motion picture and sound, it makes me think that I could be good at geometry as I can do spatial thinking well, however the downside of my thinking style is I've never been able to find a framework that allows me to hold fine detail symbols in space and work with them usefully, I suppose hence dyslexia + dyscalculia diagnosis.

So she's not "bad at math", she has dyscalculia.

The reason why i mention this, is because i often think of a LLM like a person with Dyslexia / Dyscalculia.

Think of a LLM more like somebody with Dyslexia / Dyscalculia...

Dyscalculia means that you should probably avoid situations that require you to do your own arithmetic, but there's way more to math than arithmetic, and most professional mathematicians aren't that great at arithmetic either.