If you thought 8 ÷ 2(2+2) = ? was stupid and pointless, so did a lot of mathematicians.https://nyti.ms/2YKDk9f
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We put people on the moon with PEMDAS. We created artificial intelligence with PEMDAS. It’s more important that anyone seems to understand.
Just because order of operations is important doesn’t mean this silly math expression has any value. I tried to think of a real-world calculation where you would write down something like this and could not think of one. It is a creature of memes, nothing more.
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I agree with almost all of that. It's as stupid as the blue dress and Laurel/Yanny. But in those silly controversies we learned some really interesting things. There's that opportunity here, but instead of getting into why or why not we do things, you've opted for snark.
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The dress and Laurel/Yanny were super-interesting, because they illustrated some aspects of the human visual and hearing systems that people don't realize, namely that what you see and hear aren't pure representations of the world. The brain has photoshopped them.
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