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Except this wasn't was an "algorithm researcher" position he was applying to.

It was, you know, a programming position.

I'm pretty sure that no one has a opening to research how to find the area under a simple curve.

If you can find an aspect of frontend development even remotely analogous to integral calculus, LMK.

tensorflow.js?

That's an application. Not a matter intrinsic to frontend development.