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Most of us (engineers of any kind) learn quite lot of maths during uni, and most of us forget 90% of that as it's not needed in most jobs, which is a shame. Th
by sz4kerto 12y ago
Most of us (engineers of any kind) learn quite lot of maths during uni, and most of us forget 90% of that as it's not needed in most jobs, which is a shame.
The thing I have needed all the time is statistics and prob. theory, that keeps coming up literally everywhere. Calculus - not so much. If you need something, you can always re-learn it quickly. (For example, I learned quite a lot of linear algebra, but haven't used it for ~10 years, so when I had to write some 3D gfx/shader code, I had to spend like two days on quaternions, etc.)
- jackpirate 12y agoAs a machine learning guy, I can't imagine doing stats without calculus and linear algebra :)
- Chronic31 12y agoFrom sklearn import svm Done
- bigger_cheese 12y agoI find my self surprised just how often Linear Algebra pops up. A few years ago I was doing some work with Splines, trying to smooth some noisy plant data and I had to relearn matrix decomposition (LU factorisation). Every year or so since I've been ambushed by some other "stealth" aplication of linear algebra in something you'd otherwise think would not be applicable. Nowadays my old beat up linear algebra text book from uni sits right beside "C in a nutshell" and the printed GDB manual on my shelf at work.