@avibryant @snoble @etrepum Numerical Analysis is hard, and what's worse is that most people don't realize that fact.
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@joXn@avibryant@snoble getting correct results is pretty hard too, especially if you don't have any methodology to help -
@etrepum@avibryant@snoble A programmer, faced with a problem, said "I know, I'll use floating point!" Now they have 1.99999995 problems.
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@avibryant@snoble you don't think any material benefit was gained from the bijection discussion then? -
@jedws perhaps there was benefit. But I was emailed this conversation from various friends with comments on how silly mathematicians can be -
@snoble I had the opposite experience, saying how silly programmers could be that they'd use words so imprecisely and incorrectly :-) - 1 more reply
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@avibryant@snoble The Feynman quote about math and physics probably applies to math and programming too. Maybe logic and programming. -
@arsatiki@avibryant remind me of the quote? I remember Feynman on beauty and flowers. And pranks and lock picking -
@snoble “Physics is to mathematics like sex is to masturbation.” -
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@johnbender I don’t know what specific advances you mean. But I doubt their existence would really affect the sting of the Feynman’ quip. - 1 more reply
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@avibryant@snoble In addition to linear algebra it'd help to study numerical analysis too. Or at least how floating point works.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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