Would you say this is true or false: one of the essentials to being a "good" programmer is being able to implement mathematical concepts even if you don't immediately fully understand the theory behind them. Like implementing what you see verbatim from a math book into your program, even if you still have no idea most of what the math reference is saying, you still get it to work properly in your program.
like quaternions... I got tired of trying to figure out *why* they work, and *why* imaginary numbers would have anything to do with geometry with very little success in figuring it out... so I ignore that part and just **trust** that my math references are correct, and go straight to the implementation.
I sometimes feel like a "bad programmer" when i do this, but... maybe I'm just a bad mathematician (calculus certainly held me back a couple of college semesters) and maybe actually a better programmer than i give myself credit for, if I'm able to implement concepts working that I don't fully understand in my own mind in my software, perhaps?
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Anonymous2006-09-10 20:15
if the purpose was to learn a math concept, spend time learning it. if the purpose was to implement the concept, it's useful to understand the concept, I'd just refer to it whenever I need it.
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Anonymous2006-09-10 21:15
If you can implement it, then you are a programmer. But if you can also understand it, you are a better programmer. Only through proper understanding can you come up with optimal algorithms, equivalent solutions, etc. and deal with all of it in the most elegant way.
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Anonymous2006-09-13 2:54
SSHH... listen to thi--PENIS IN YA EAR
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Anonymous2006-09-15 11:16
No
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Anonymous2006-09-15 17:50
Imaginary numbers fuck people up because they named them "imaginary" if you call them "complex" then they make fuck more sense. That's something that tripped me up for years. I mean I always accepted them, but I never liked them until I took that view about it
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Anonymous2006-09-15 18:04
to be a good programmer math skills are not needed
to be a good computer scientist math skills are fucking important
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Anonymous2006-09-16 19:31
>>7 To be a good programmer, Maths skills are not that important but you can't be a fucking Maths-illiterate because your code will sometimes suck and you won't be able to take on smarter approaches such as functional programming.
Fixed.
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Anonymous2006-09-16 21:14
>>6
Complex numbers and imaginary numbers are not the same thing. An imaginary number is simply a number that is a multiple of i, where i is the solution to the equation i^2 = -1.
A complex number is a number that has a real part and an imaginary part. Either of these parts can be zero; thus both the reals and the imaginaries are subsets of complex numbers.
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Anonymous2006-09-16 21:32
>>6
lol, i guess >>9's truth has fucked up your view of imaginary numbers again
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Anonymous2006-09-16 21:36
Imagine that the square root symbol is like a little prison for numbers. Positive numbers can escape by sacrificing a part of themselves, like 25 must give up 20 to escape. Negative numbers on the other hand are sentenced to live in the jail until they die. That is until they meet another prisoner like themself, and they can conspire together to escape. In the process one of them dies, so you are only left with one of the negative numbers.
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Anonymous2006-09-17 10:20
>>11
Keep visualizing math like that and you'll never make it to the really complex stuff.
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Anonymous2006-09-17 12:21
Imagine partial differential equations are like a fight between the variables. If someone is at zero, you can completely count them out because they are dead. Otherwise they matter to the fight. The solution allows you to determine how many people will be killed in the fight, as long as the numbers you plug in are the weights in pounds of the variables.
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Anonymous2006-09-17 12:55
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Anonymous2006-09-17 14:51
for the sake of people like >>6 we should rename calculus "fairy math" just to mess with them
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