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Re:Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what u... by vidarh on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @06:39AM (#9373244)
Why? There are plenty of directions you can take through a CS degree that will never have you dealing with vectors at all. And subsequently there are plenty of CS heavy careers where you will never deal with it.

What little I remember about vectors is from my high school maths classes, and in my 20 years of doing software engineering it's come up exactly once (for a GIS related project).

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Re:Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what u... by pedrosorio on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:19AM (#9392675)
You are probably right about CS. I only have experience with engineering and wouldn't expect any engineer (i.e. a major in engineering) to not know that.

I wouldn't expect anyone working with machine learning to not know these concepts either.

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