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by gajomi
4484 days ago
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>Is that really true? It's almost certainly not true, at least among those that would be called mathematicians. This follows if for no other reason than the fact that it takes years to get up to speed with the forefront of any particular branch of mathematics, which is the prerequisite for testing out one's mathematical abilities (in the context of research). While you occasionally have a few teenage prodigies, most mathematicians won't get started on their career until much later. |
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Computer science courses usually teach something very different from every day programming. You learn linear algebra, AI, dynamic programming.
Then you go to work and spend 10 years mostly not doing those things. They are generic, and there are libraries for generic things - you just need to understand how they behave.
A decade later, most people will only retain the specific techniques they use in their domain. Maybe you know more than you ever did about indexing algorithms, but the math behind the deep learning algorithm you wrote at college is gone.