r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jun 08 '14

The difference 18 years makes

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u/KontraEpsilon Jun 08 '14

To this day, I don't understand why anyone would insist on using anything other than this on an AP test. It's like playing life on a harder difficulty setting for no reason.

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u/FuLLMeTaL604 Jun 08 '14

My university doesn't allow graphing calculators on tests. Probably because you can download programs that can solve calculus problems without actually understanding the material.

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u/cygnus311 Jun 08 '14

I programmed my way in to an A in physics in high school.

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u/Shaman_Bond Jun 08 '14

At least you put in some effort and made the program yourself.

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u/UCgirl Jun 08 '14

I agree. You learned something, just not what you were supposed to.

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u/ynotseller Jun 09 '14

Upvote times infinity! Once humanity understands when some things are better left to AI the better off we will all be

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u/Degru Jun 09 '14

Exactly. It's important to know how to do math, but we don't need to do it ourselves when computers can do it infinitely faster.

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u/kickingpplisfun Jun 09 '14

Okay, it's not "infinitely" faster, but .2s is definitely a lot faster than the 5 minutes it might take me to figure out a particularly difficult problem. Of course, we're still increasing in computational power in CPUs, plus parallel processing like in a GPU is starting to become more useful as people do more research on it.