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It's incredibly rare to not use a library for this kind of math unless you actually work on mathematical software.
by ajkjk 12y ago
It's incredibly rare to not use a library for this kind of math unless you actually work on mathematical software.
- moron4hire 12y agoLook, the person I was replying to clearly meant to express "web engineer, therefore not mathematician". That's my only point. And it does you no good to have a linear algebra library if you don't know how linear algebra works.
- dllthomas 12y agoGiven that the person you were replying to said, "I apply category theory and type theory all the time, and I'm sure the time I've put into studying algebraic topology and abstract algebra has shaped how I think about problems[,]" I don't think it's clear at all that they meant to express "web engineer, therefore not mathematician."
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- moron4hire 12y agoThat doesn't really mean anything
- dllthomas 12y agoWe can pick at the semantics, but they don't really matter. My point was that the pragmatic function of the above is quite clearly at odds with an attempt to distance the poster from mathematics.