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I do a whole lot of stuff "more computer sciencey than a CRUD app", and I took a whole lot of calclus thanks to my computer engineering degree. I absolutely nev
by 0xffff2 7y ago
I do a whole lot of stuff "more computer sciencey than a CRUD app", and I took a whole lot of calclus thanks to my computer engineering degree. I absolutely never use it. You need calculus to design a transistor. So far, I've yet to run into a situation where I need calculus to write code unless the code is literally solving a calc problem, which comes up incredible infrequently.
- dboreham 7y agoYou need Bose Einstein Statistical Mechanics (or QM or...) to design a transistor.
- commandlinefan 7y ago> I've yet to run into a situation where I need calculus Actually, gradient descent and Lagrange multipliers come up quite a bit in machine learning. Of course, you can just apply them without understanding them just like you can apply the graphics formulas for rotational motion without understanding them, but when something does go wrong, it sure helps to understand the principles behind them.
- 2sk21 7y agoLinear algebra and calculus are an essential part of machine learning. I use my knowledge of these topics almost daily