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Re:Mathematics and Computation by chongli on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:02PM (#21916694)
you can come up with some metrics to mathematically analyze certain aspects of the user interaction

And we have done that! Fitts’ law [1] gives us a very good way of quantifying certain aspects of user interface design. I can’t tell you how many UIs I’ve used (lost count) that have ignored this very basic principle and as a result they’re extremely frustrating to use.

In any case, it may not be what garganzol was talking about, but it did resemble a comment I’ve seen made many times. In the vast majority of cases I’ve seen, people who claim that math is inapplicable to some problem are completely unaware of a rich and storied field of mathematics dedicated to that topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

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Re:Mathematics and Computation by AnimalMuppet on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:22PM (#21916824)
Sure. But like TheRealPomax said, that's a different level of abstraction. If you need to be thinking in terms of Fitts' Law, and you're thinking of your code in terms of lambda calculus-level math, you're going to have a rough time.
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