Re:Letter from an “Anti-School Teacher”
by educomments on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:46PM
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> 34 years old. Been writing software since I was 14.
We have very similar profiles.
I use calculus every day.
> Statistics is 100% for sure more useful to me, in everyday life and at work.
I use statistics every day too, working on ML systems.
> That's the thing I really ought to work to get better at.
The calculus comes in pretty damn quick. See also the third point in my original post; concretely, every ML course I've ever seen requires Calculus as a pre-requisite.
We have very similar profiles.
I use calculus every day.
> Statistics is 100% for sure more useful to me, in everyday life and at work.
I use statistics every day too, working on ML systems.
> That's the thing I really ought to work to get better at.
The calculus comes in pretty damn quick. See also the third point in my original post; concretely, every ML course I've ever seen requires Calculus as a pre-requisite.