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why is the existence of sagemath have any news relevance on HN?

johnsonjo 6y ago
> why is the existence of sagemath have any news relevance on HN? Ideas from STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) are pretty large and pervasive throughout the tech industry. I think there are also a large area of tech startups that could come from any area of STEM. Also one of the goals of info on hacker news is to be intriguing to hackers themselves and to fulfill some sense of intellectual curiosity. For me personally SAGEMath opens doors for me as a programmer to better understand abstract math concepts that might or might not have relevance to my daily work as a programmer and as a cofounder. In that sense I think SAGEMath helps fulfill that intellectual curiosity. Heck it may even help me complete that next projecteuler problem. (Which also is only done for the fun and experience of it.) Also people who come up with really creative company ideas or that build free software that really do something quite amazing are often at the intersection of tech and some other field. This is not to say that tech solves all other fields’ problems. It’s that tech can benefit other fields when it takes the approach of how can I make this field’s work easier which often comes from a good amount of knowledge of how that field actually works otherwise it’s just too superficial. SAGEMath is a great example of tech actually helping research mathematicians and most of it is made by mathematicians themselves (who clearly have some programming prowess.) By the way I’m sorry you were downvoted. Looking at your profile I see you’ve only been on here for 82 days. I see your comment as very genuine but I also understand a little of why you might have been downvoted but for that I’ll just point you to the sites guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html The original post very clearly meets the guidelines though it is not your typical news, it is news to hackers. Happy Hacking. :)

> why is the existence of sagemath have any news relevance on HN? Ideas from STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) are pretty large and pervasive throughout the tech industry. I think there are also a large area of tech startups that could come from any area of STEM. Also one of the goals of info on hacker news is to be intriguing to hackers themselves and to fulfill some sense of intellectual curiosity. For me personally SAGEMath opens doors for me as a programmer to better understand abstract math concepts that might or might not have relevance to my daily work as a programmer and as a cofounder. In that sense I think SAGEMath helps fulfill that intellectual curiosity. Heck it may even help me complete that next projecteuler problem. (Which also is only done for the fun and experience of it.) Also people who come up with really creative company ideas or that build free software that really do something quite amazing are often at the intersection of tech and some other field. This is not to say that tech solves all other fields’ problems. It’s that tech can benefit other fields when it takes the approach of how can I make this field’s work easier which often comes from a good amount of knowledge of how that field actually works otherwise it’s just too superficial. SAGEMath is a great example of tech actually helping research mathematicians and most of it is made by mathematicians themselves (who clearly have some programming prowess.) By the way I’m sorry you were downvoted. Looking at your profile I see you’ve only been on here for 82 days. I see your comment as very genuine but I also understand a little of why you might have been downvoted but for that I’ll just point you to the sites guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html The original post very clearly meets the guidelines though it is not your typical news, it is news to hackers. Happy Hacking. :)