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by argonaut 3902 days ago
In all fairness, that's pretty atypical of a standard CS degree. In my anecdotal experience (knowing people that went to Stanford/Berkeley/MIT/CMU), most people take at most 1 probability class, 1 linear algebra class, and maybe 1 AI/ML class. Info theory, NLP, numerical analysis, optimization, etc. are not at all common.
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Or just got a CS degree too long ago. I got lots of discrete math - formal methods, automata theory, and number theory. All that stuff that's in Knuth. But no number-crunching beyond matrix inversion and Fourier transforms.