Intuitive explanation of quick-sort as a case study of the value of alive knowledge
So in some sense, to get "explanatory understanding", one needs to "re-enact" the process of discovery of the original discoverer? That's a pretty high bar!
This might be too much of a requirement! But understanding how it fits with other ideas is very useful.
Visualization is such a powerful gateway to making knowledge more alive. Sam Rose does this exceptionally well: https://encore.dev/blog/queueing
Also, you might be interested in Zvonko Fazarinc's work, where he railed against infinitesimal calculus as unnecessarily obstruse https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/timeline/zvonko_fazarinc/hpj1987_03_01.htm
So in some sense, to get "explanatory understanding", one needs to "re-enact" the process of discovery of the original discoverer? That's a pretty high bar!
This might be too much of a requirement! But understanding how it fits with other ideas is very useful.
Visualization is such a powerful gateway to making knowledge more alive. Sam Rose does this exceptionally well: https://encore.dev/blog/queueing
Also, you might be interested in Zvonko Fazarinc's work, where he railed against infinitesimal calculus as unnecessarily obstruse https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/timeline/zvonko_fazarinc/hpj1987_03_01.htm