Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl...
by jimbokun on Sunday October 18, 2026 @10:46PM
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Are those capabilities valuable if machines are better at all of them than you?
Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl...
by raegis on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:30AM
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> Are those capabilities valuable if machines are better at all of them than you?
Machines have been doing arithmetic (add/subtract/multiply/divide) better and faster than humans for 70+ years. I would ask anyone making this claim, "are you OK if your children do not learn basic arithmetic?"
Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl...
by rubikscube09 on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:35AM
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jensen huang suggests that basic arithmetic won't need to be taught anymore.
In a way ai is turning programming more into maths - you write a natural language description of the problem - a proof / program - and then translating that into machine code is a lot of work / abstraction. For example look how much it takes to turn relatively simple mathematical statements into lean. That I guess is going to be the future.
I would encourage everyone to learn the fundamentals still because you will need discretion and to be able to think at a more abstract level.
However its funny that its only NOW dehumanising/demoralising now when its white people losing jobs to the capitalist machine in the imperial core, and not the slave silicon miners making gpus for gamers.