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It is such a strange inclination to want to hide the math behind programming. I find this just makes things even more obtuse. Every time I have to read code th
by ralph1268 7y ago
It is such a strange inclination to want to hide the math behind programming. I find this just makes things even more obtuse.
Every time I have to read code that implements a numerical algorithm, I have no idea what is going on until I reverse engineer (so to speak) the code back into standard mathematical notation.
- newen 7y agoTrue. I think it's a symptom of people who had no math education taking up programming and wanting to learn ML etc.