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by 0xabe 1566 days ago
We were just talking about this over lunch yesterday (software engineers at a medical device company). I won’t dismiss calculus, but it was generally agreed that linear algebra and statistics were most important, at least for what we’re doing.
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Must be something common about medical devices. When not doing linear algebra and stats, I need optimizations from the wheelhouses of linear programming and numerical analysis.
Although for statistics (and probability as well), Calculus has a way of sneaking in there.
not sure why anyone downvoted this, because in my stats for engineers class we were doing double integrals