Re:Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf]
by gronne on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:58AM
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No such thing as “Data science” - just a fancy term for trade school computer skills. Thats why.
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Re:Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf]
by wolfgke on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:47AM
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> No such thing as “Data science” - just a fancy term for trade school computer skills. Thats why.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/
Or as my friend put it: everything is just a trivial special case of either mathematics or physics. ;-)
Re:Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf]
by gronne on Friday December 28, 2018 @01:39PM
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True :) I know the strip. tbh I just felt like trolling the insecure “data hackers” crowd. Looking at downvotes: I think it worked.
Re:Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf]
by everybodyknows on Friday December 28, 2018 @02:28PM
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Fun xkcd, but mathematics does not belong on a continuum of the scientific disciplines, all of which seek to describe nature.
"Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kronecker
Verbose, highly literal translation: "Loving God created the absolute integers; all else is the work of humanity."