Ask HN: What skills do you think will be most in-demand in 10 years?

Post by anbardoi » Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 9:27 PM UTC

michaelrpeskin wrote: post #50

anbardoi wrote: post #48

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If you can recall it, do you remember the math problem in question? And could you loosely explain how you transformed it?(just with general concepts or keywords for my own curiosity. I love math, and seeing how different problems can relate to each other in unexpected ways. For example, when the sum of two quadratic roots gives the width of a given rectangle. Like this problem: A rectangle has an area of 32ft² . Its…

Roughly it can be viewed as a change of coordinates and then recognizing the symmetry. Say you had a 2D function of x and y and transformed it to r and theta and then noticed that it was independent of theta. You go from an 2D problem to a 1D one. In this case we’re transforming a 7D problem into a sum of a discrete set of 2D problems. With more algebra we could get it down to a 1D problem but that would take more hu…

What field of mathematics is this?

Post by novagameco » Tue, Jul 02, 2024, 5:26 PM UTC

hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #18

novagameco wrote: post #16

I don't think math is going out of business

Seconded. Math does nothing for you by default but it makes almost everything else easier, to the point of making the impossible possible.

I have found several points in my career where taking the extra time to learn math fundamentals (particularly linear algebra) has paid off when learning something more high level. People often say that the math in machine learning doesn't matter and you can staple python libraries together but I've made convincing arguments in product design meetings based on how the mathematics of certain algorithms lends itself to our particular use case and how it helps scalability

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