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If that were true, everybody and their little sister would understand the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem by now. It was discovered in 1817. They teach it everywher

by gizi 11y ago

If that were true, everybody and their little sister would understand the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem by now. It was discovered in 1817. They teach it everywhere in high schools as a mandatory item in the math class. However, there is no hope whatsoever that more than 10% of the population would ever understand what it means.

codeshaman 11y ago
Multiplied by the population of Earth, that's still a huge number of people. What I was trying to say is that there are lot of problems that are already solved and new generations can build on top of that. There are always going to be ever more complicated problems and ever-expanding areas, but in many areas we've pretty much figured things out so people can just use the solutions in their domain specific problems without having to re-implement them. I'm talking about open source libraries, higher-level programming languages and even visual programming which can be used by people to write programs without needing to understand the deeper aspects of things. Doctors visualising data, artists making interactive art or chaining visual effects, lawyers querying databases - things you needed to hire programmers for will be done by people who aren't doing this full time, but can do it if required.
- minthd 11y ago
  It's definitely seems true. I think it would be even more powerful. remember reading about nutonian which enabled a doctor to build a machine learning model to differentiate between kids who needed surgery and who did not. And on the other hand ,similar capability, i.e. machine learning is being used by the researchers to crack TOR mostly just by feeding data to the algorithm. So basically ,strong tools will be available to everybody, greatly equalizing programmers and non=programmers.
dagw 11y ago
How many jobs in the past hundred years required or would have been made easier if the people doing them understood the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem? How many jobs over the next 100 years will require or be made a lot easier by knowing how to program?

by gizi 11y ago

codeshaman 11y ago

Multiplied by the population of Earth, that's still a huge number of people. What I was trying to say is that there are lot of problems that are already solved and new generations can build on top of that. There are always going to be ever more complicated problems and ever-expanding areas, but in many areas we've pretty much figured things out so people can just use the solutions in their domain specific problems without having to re-implement them. I'm talking about open source libraries, higher-level programming languages and even visual programming which can be used by people to write programs without needing to understand the deeper aspects of things. Doctors visualising data, artists making interactive art or chaining visual effects, lawyers querying databases - things you needed to hire programmers for will be done by people who aren't doing this full time, but can do it if required.

minthd 11y ago
It's definitely seems true. I think it would be even more powerful. remember reading about nutonian which enabled a doctor to build a machine learning model to differentiate between kids who needed surgery and who did not. And on the other hand ,similar capability, i.e. machine learning is being used by the researchers to crack TOR mostly just by feeding data to the algorithm. So basically ,strong tools will be available to everybody, greatly equalizing programmers and non=programmers.

dagw 11y ago

How many jobs in the past hundred years required or would have been made easier if the people doing them understood the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem? How many jobs over the next 100 years will require or be made a lot easier by knowing how to program?