[mrguyorama]

It's almost like people who don't actually know anything about math, statistics, or probability shouldn't be believed when they make poor arguments using the same.

Maybe there's a reason it takes 4 years of extremely tough classes to understand the basics of "hard" math.

[hnews_account_1]

It’s not just that. But like if I made up bullshit like “the emerging market populations are growing hard and will strain earth’s resources. Our startup needs to kill them to save the planet, here’s a log Utility function to explain it”, some VC out there is an idiot enough to give me money. Maybe if I’m playing league of legends while saying it, I’ll get more cash than I even want to raise.

[paganel]

> Maybe there's a reason it takes 4 years of extremely tough classes to understand the basics of "hard" math.

On top of that, any decent tech school also has an "ethics of engineering" course somewhere along the way, or at least I did about 20 years ago when I was a student (we had quite a stupid professor, but the intention was there).

[mrguyorama]

I thought it was convenient how people's response to that class immediately showed me who shouldn't be allowed to run, start or control anything. "This class is bullshit and stupid" no, you are a selfish asshole who refuses to spend even half an hour a week understanding the history of the industry and the mistakes we made and how your work will have an impact on people so refuse to let that be a negative impact.

[mjburgess]

Four years?

Most books, yt videos, jobs and academic press releases tell me all it takes is `import tensorflow` or `git clone github://lolcoin.git`