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It depends on your definition. Something like one in a couple thousand is probably reasonable, or a few million. If we're talking competent and capable of inde
by glimcat 15y ago
It depends on your definition. Something like one in a couple thousand is probably reasonable, or a few million.
If we're talking competent and capable of independently producing professional-grade output, you'll see another reducing factor of around 1:100 or more...so already down to a few tens of thousands. Once we start breaking that down into subfields like data mining or computer vision, the number of people in the field can get rather small.
- bejuizb 15y agoBut the question was number of programmers, Not in any particular sub-domain. Theoretically, even mathematicians can be called as programmers, only that they deal in Language called as Mathematics
- glimcat 15y agoThe question was overly vague, which is why the first thing I said was "it depends on your definition." The broad estimate is on the first line.