Re:A math tutor teaching calculus on Pornhub
by hooande on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:36PM
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I don't think that any of these benefits are worth the number of hours that people are asked to spend studying calculus
Re:A math tutor teaching calculus on Pornhub
by CoastalCoder on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:46PM
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The benefits that I personally have reaped from studying calculus justify the time and effort that I personally have invested.
I'm not qualified to guess how universal my experience is.
Re:A math tutor teaching calculus on Pornhub
by pjbeam on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:40PM
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I personally enjoyed analysis for its own sake. The calc sequence was a bit silly, like a cookbook, but there are some cool ideas in there that I still enjoy thinking about. Math maturity that came out of that (and others, especially number theory) has served me well as a conceptual framework in all kinds of disparate areas of my life.
- Understanding the ideas behind derivatives / gradients and integrals has let me grasp some basic concepts regarding physical systems and regarding money.
- I've helped some physicists turn their ideas into C++ code, and knowing a little calculus narrowed the communications gap.
- In deep learning systems, if I didn't already know some basic calculus, understanding auto-differentiation and back-propagation would have seemed like an insurmountable challenge.