You must be good at Math
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Nope, it means you're a Computer Engineer.
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tbf all good programmers are good at math. Not classic arithmetic necessarily, but at the very least applied calculus. It's a crime how many people used a mathematical discipline every day, but don't think they're "good at math" because of how lazer focused the world is on algebra, geometry and trig as being all that "math" is.
Serious question; how does Calculus apply to programming? I’ve never understood.
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Serious question; how does Calculus apply to programming? I’ve never understood.
that can't be right. maybe they meant lambda calculus? programmers are definitely good at applied logic, graph theory, certain kinds of discrete math etc. but you're not whipping out integrals to write a backend.
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IT stooge != science
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Nope, it means you're a Computer Engineer.
computer engineer refers to someone who engineers computer hardware. more like being a (digital) electrical engineer.
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Serious question; how does Calculus apply to programming? I’ve never understood.
Computers are just big calculators so to program them you need calculus.
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Serious question; how does Calculus apply to programming? I’ve never understood.
PID control is the classic example, but at a far enough abstraction any looping algorithm can be argued to be an implementation of the concepts underpinning calculus. If you're ever doing any statistical analysis or anything in game design having to do with motion, those are both calculus too. Data science is pure calculus, ground up and injected into your eyeballs, and any string manipulation or Regex is going to be built on lambda calculus (though a very correct argument can be made that literally all computer science is built of lambda calculus so that might be cheating to include it)
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Yeah, we do both numbers here, ones AND zeros
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that can't be right. maybe they meant lambda calculus? programmers are definitely good at applied logic, graph theory, certain kinds of discrete math etc. but you're not whipping out integrals to write a backend.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Any function that relies on change over a domain is reliant on concepts that are fundementally calculus. Control systems, statistical analysis, data science, absolutely everything in networking that doesn't involve calling people on the phone to convince them to give you their password, that is all calculus.
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Serious question; how does Calculus apply to programming? I’ve never understood.
good physics/graphics engine require calculus
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that can't be right. maybe they meant lambda calculus? programmers are definitely good at applied logic, graph theory, certain kinds of discrete math etc. but you're not whipping out integrals to write a backend.
Many things that work with time series data use calculus all the time. Both derivatives and integrals are very useful in that context: derivatives being the rate of change at some particular time step, and integrals being the sum of the changes across a range of time steps.
There's a pretty wide range of applications.
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computer engineer refers to someone who engineers computer hardware. more like being a (digital) electrical engineer.
Yea I dont think people are catching the sarcasm of not having capital E Engineers in all countries.
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Surely you must be a master of linear algebra and Euclidean geometry
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Serious question; how does Calculus apply to programming? I’ve never understood.
Graphics programming is the most obvious one and it uses it plenty, but really any application that can be modeled as a series of discrete changes will mostly likely be using calculus.
Time series data is the most common form of this, where derivatives are the rate of change from one time step to the next and integrals are summing the changes across a range of time.
But it can even be more abstract than that. For example, there's a recent-ish paper on applying signal processing techniques (which use calculus themselves, btw) to databases for the purposes of achieving efficient incremental view maintenance: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16684
The idea is that a database is a sequence of transactions that apply a set of changes to said database. Integrating gets you the current state of the database by applying all of the changes.
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If a C- is enough to pass Analysis of Algorithms, then a Computer Science degree can make me a Computer Scientist.
You need C++ for computer science, though!
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Be me, a computer scientist who still struggles with XOR.
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Serious question; how does Calculus apply to programming? I’ve never understood.
Lotta infinite sums in loops
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Be me, a computer scientist who still struggles with XOR.
Wait til you see XNAND
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I literally have no idea what this picture means, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
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My ex boss describes himself as such. King of the dickheads.
