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Yeah, I confess I only read the title, but I don't understand the "despite". I mean, surely, you need a good background in mathematics to model and extract mea
by Gmo 11y ago
Yeah, I confess I only read the title, but I don't understand the "despite".
I mean, surely, you need a good background in mathematics to model and extract meaningful information from the data, so I don't see how it is crazy to do that with a PhD in mathematics ...
- mauricemir 11y agoI think his point was that pure math can be very devolved from real world as I found when i tried to go from a Engineering to a HNC in Maths Stats and Computing. Back then it was virtulay all Pure maths with the computing side being shall we say Antique - most of my course mates where working at Tier 1 RnD workng at the bleeding edge, my employer hired the first non academic knowledge engineer in the UK
- cpfohl 11y agoThat was my reaction too. I'm a computer science graduate who's constantly wishing he'd taken more mathematics courses so I could read and implement more ML algorithms...