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It's critical. You can't do computer science without understanding math. However, it's also important to note that the overwhelming majority of developers are
by onion2k 5y ago
It's critical. You can't do computer science without understanding math.
However, it's also important to note that the overwhelming majority of developers are not computer scientists. You don't need particularly good math skills to write software. Most developers aren't doing things like implementing compilers, interpreters or defining new languages. If your job is essentially taking input events, figuring out what they mean, putting the result in a database, and then pulling the data out and displaying it in a specific format on request, then you can get away with very little math at all.
- sam0x17 5y agoAs I found with my own career, you can also get through graduate level computer science, and publish AI papers while still being really quite bad at basic math.
- f6v 5y agoIn my field, you could publish decent results by applying a dull CNN just 2 years ago. The only math you had to know was arithmetic to calculate TP and FP.
- nsonha 5y agoHow should ww feel about this? On the one hand if math is the thing that intimidate people from pursuing science then this is encouraging. On the other, papers are supposed to be useful and truthful and I don't know if that can be achieved if the authors are mediocre at math.