> did calculus really make you a better software engineer? Ten years ago, I might have agreed with you, but with data mining and machine learning coming to dom

> did calculus really make you a better software engineer? Ten years ago, I might have agreed with you, but with data mining and machine learning coming to dominate the practice of software development, calculus is more relevant than ever. I took undergraduate calculus about 30 years ago, and I’ve forgotten so much that I recently dug out my old textbook (that I still have for some reason) and started to re-read it just to make better sense of a lot of the machine learning documentation I’m coming across these days.