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What's the point of learning math?

Anonymous Wed 17 Jun 05:54:12 2020 No.11807236 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11807254 >>11807272 >>11807497 >>11807835

I'm learning calculus right now and I can just check all of my assignments by plugging the equations into websites. The computer can do all of it. What's the point of me learning it when computers can do all of it in seconds? And yes I know how to do it on my own, I'm not cheating.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jun 2020 06:01:56 No.11807254 Report

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>>11807236
if you're using math day-to-day, a lot of it is about gaining intuition. knowing what types of tools to apply to certain problems, etc.
life is not book problems with integrals to evaluate. knowing how to turn a real life problem into a mathematical expression, and what sorts of simplifications you can/should make, are all based on intuition.
of course computers have complicated things. but if you don't know math, how are you going to know how to troubleshoot the results you get from a computer? if the result it spits out is wildly unrealistic, how will you know this?

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jun 2020 06:13:01 No.11807272 Report

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>>11807236

Real life doesn't give you math or science problems in the form you'd get on a test. This knowledge becomes valuable when you recognize that real life problems you have can be expressed in terms of math or science. Getting to the point that you can ask the correct question is the key.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jun 2020 08:08:08 No.11807497 Report

Quoted By: >>11807663

>>11807236

Learning maths is not the same as learning to do calculations.
You need the necessary calculating ability to prove theorems and make back of the envelope models of your idea, the actual number crunching is left to the machine.
But the machine cannot calculate if you do not develop an idea, which is then interpreted using theorems etc.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jun 2020 09:26:36 No.11807663 Report

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>>11807254
>>11807272
>>11807497
>AI: exists
>140 IQ hooman brains BTFO

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jun 2020 09:30:41 No.11807674 Report

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>>11807663
>hooman
go back

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jun 2020 09:33:45 No.11807681 Report

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It's how you evaluate the result. You ask the computer to compute, and you are given a result. Does this result make sense? What can you do with this result? How do you know the computer isn't outputting garbage data? Hypothetically, one could take advantage of another's ignorance and purposefully deceive.

It's called not being a dumb, ignorant, gullible fuck.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jun 2020 11:12:38 No.11807835 Report

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>>11807236
There is no point, but ask yourself this:
>Could I design and build the computer?

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