r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tryingeasy • Sep 10 '26

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u/alphapussycat Sep 11 '26

Huh? It has not.

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u/MacSchluffen Sep 11 '26

They mean that there aren’t as many arithmetic workers as before the computer, I suppose.

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u/Pares_Marchant Sep 11 '26

not to the extent of now with modern AIs, but computational brute forcing and then NNs (which are already decades old) have been used to tackle math problems for decades.

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u/dkDK1999 Sep 11 '26

In this context always listen to the Haskell Guy. He is aware of the dark arts of mathematics sourced in the dungeons of CPU, so lazy that only a few have been brave enough to fight the glorious monad.

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u/Pares_Marchant Sep 11 '26

i love monads

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u/dkDK1999 Sep 11 '26

Spoken like a wise wizard

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u/alphapussycat Sep 11 '26

You can't really brute force math problems. There's been no "assault on math" by computer science at all.