Re:Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming
by h8hawk on Thursday April 09, 2020 @06:41PM
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No really. They are math themselves. Algorithms have nothing to do with implementation. The whole CLRS books algorithms are written with pseudocode. By your logic Turing machines and many other models of computations are not math. Just something is imperative doesn't mean it's not mathematics.
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Re:Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming
by SaxonRobber on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:36PM
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This is a pretty pedantic definition.
Plenty of excellent programmers are not mathematicians. How would that work if programming were just math? That’s like saying physics is just math while ignoring all of the experimental parts that have nothing to do with math.