this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
92 points (98.9% liked)

Asklemmy

43956 readers
1004 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
92
How to learn math after school? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
31 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I am starting IT studies. As someone always interested in computers I have paths in my head how to get needed information. There is also a luxury of testing anything learn in practice by for ex. contributing to open source or creating a server.

Math was always interesting for me too, but I haven't spend time on learning it much, I have many lacks from middle school and there are topics I know about but can't use them in practice or have no intuition or forgot how to formally write them.

So I started to try to learn, as a self-learner most time I spend on Wikipedia and forums, but those turned out to be death end when it comes to understanding whole topic and not just reminding one thing.

So question to you that are learning math: how do you do so? And I also never learned anything in a typical "school" way, I always need to feel interest or have a goal in something.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

For math, it really depends on what you're doing. The overwhelming majority of software simply uses conditionals (if this, then that), and it also structures and consumes data. If you're working on stuff like calculating stress of physical structures, then some math may be involved. But even then, unless you're innovating in a specific field, you'll often use prior art from solved problems.

For example, if you want to write some math to create a reverb on sound, we've done that before. If you want to forecast trends, we've done that, too. Machine learning and AI is accompanied by a lot of open source libraries, so you can just install a lib and use it.