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It will widen your horizon, they said. And here I was, foolishly thinking I could get away with half-assing statistics during my degree.

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[-] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago

Linear algebra, absolutely. But I kind of hoped to get through my whole degree (mostly EE) without properly knowing statistics. Hah. First I take an elective Intro AI class, and then BioInf. I guess I hate myself.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Oh you can get through most degrees without properly learning linear algebra or statistics.

But those 3 are the knowledge that will pop here and there on everything you do, and leave you confused, incapable of understand things, and incapable of extending things if you don't know them. Usually, you won't even have to calculate anything, you just have to know them.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well you need a good handle on probability to understand transistors these days at least.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

EE wizards are also the keepers of information theory, which is all just probability, and is pretty much the definition science of our modern era.

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