• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Hated Algebra in high school. Then years later got into programming. It’s all algebra. Variables, variables everywhere.

    • lhamil64@programming.dev
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      10 months ago

      Ehh I wouldn’t say variables in programming are all that similar to variables in algebra. In a programming language, variables typically are just a name for some data. Whereas in algebra, they are placeholders for unknown values.

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        10 months ago

        Machine Learning is basically a lot of linear algebra, which is mathematically equivalent to solving simultaneous equations.