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i agree
KISS principle applies also to over-formalism, not only over-engineering
(got a MD in math, sry for "my people" 😂) -
zaccy36yI feel you.
I didn't finish my CS degree because of this exact kind of unnecessary BS.
I don't need to understand the formula, I need to understand the SQL query. I will never ever do any relational algebra in my life, but I will write SQL statements. That I need to understand.
No, I don't need to know the mathematical representations of queries to understand what's happening. Don't teach CS like maths, teach it like language. -
@zaccy A-fucking-men.
I see that CS has its roots in mathematical shit, it's called "computer" for a reason but these days are over.
It's not about "how do we calc the log of some shit?" Anymore, we found an optimal way to do it and implemented it everywhere. But do we teach about git and memory management and using your tech stack and shit like that or better said "stuff you need to know about software development after 1950"? No. First day on the job you'll have your ass - errm i mean eyes - widened because you feel like having wasted good years learning how to proof why some weird ass non-deterministic fuckshit accepts some random-ass language or not and how big the probability of some thetraethicfuckinic dice throw in a urn is. With putting back the dice after each throw. Whatever. Thx for nothing. Good thing learned how bitcoin works. For what, eh?
But please have a degree, we won't pay you otherwise. Fuck y'all.
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So.. name one fucken case where your database is not a computer backed thing.
Just asking because.. why the fuck? I don't think your database server supports input of fucking math symbols? JUST USE HUMAN LANGUAGE, AS YOU HAVE TO DO ANYWAY!
It's stupid how everything needs to be expressed mathematically ffs. Not that it's hard to understand - it's just more complex than of a very simple wording.
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