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Fucking hell, once you get beyond basic trig, prob & stats is like the most useful math there is. (Unless you work in a physics or engineering field that makes
by relaxing 1y ago
Fucking hell, once you get beyond basic trig, prob & stats is like the most useful math there is.
(Unless you work in a physics or engineering field that makes regular use of calc.)
- lostmsu 1y agoMaybe basic stats, but we are not talking basics here. In the course knowing the proof of the law of large numbers for Markov chains was mandatory for example. I am in systems programming and LLM research (as in worked on improving attention mechanism). And even in the latter the stats are only relevant because attention softmax looks like a probability distribution, and, surprise, attention works just fine without it, so even that relevance is questionable.