[mprime]

I've always felt that if you're a programmer and you're hiding from the so-called "mathy" parts of you're doing, whether it's universal things like algorithms or specific things like machine learning, instead of being given a cute title like "developer" and forming a false dichotomy between that and the idea of a "computer scientist", you should be given the title of "sloppy".

Admittedly, you might be able to get by mindlessly plugging in values into someone else's function without ever having to bat an eye. But when something breaks, you're going to be absolutely screwed.

"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."

-Edsger Dijkstra