Some unpleasant truth

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* Coders will become cheap in the near future. * The `boomer` of coders are getting old. * You always need to learn mathematics if you gonna be a coder. * Computer science is a topic who deals with fancy words and abbreviations. * Statistics is not pure mathematics.

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As someone who studied engineering I have to say my maths skills have only atrophied enormously since becoming a full-time developer.

Which is a shame, I see software sometimes that appears to have some special heuristics in there when I'm sure a standard statistical technique would've achieved the same or better result.

I have a theory that the info-sec industry would benefit from folks with robust stats/data-mining/"big data"/algorithms training (in a lot of ways bioinformatics people are solving similar-looking problems).

Edit: Yes, http://securabit.com/2014/10/03/securabit-episode-129-bioinf... said the same thing... :)

As someone who studied mathematics at the graduate level & also moved to software engineering, my math skills have also atrophied, but my problem solving ability is still as top notch as ever - that is probably the biggest benefit of mathematics.

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