I wish I was taught about the usefulness of maths growing up. When I did A-level with differentition and integration I quickly forgot as I didn't see a point in it.

At about 35 someone mentioned diff and int are useful for loan repayment calculations, savings and mortgages.

Blew my fucking mind cos those are useful!

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Hated Algebra in high school. Then years later got into programming. It's all algebra. Variables, variables everywhere.

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ehh I wouldn't say variables in programming are all that similar to variables in algebra. In a programming language, variables typically are just a name for some data. Whereas in algebra, they are placeholders for unknown values.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

Machine Learning is basically a lot of linear algebra, which is mathematically equivalent to solving simultaneous equations.

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