Computer engineers knew they sucked at math, so they made computers do it
yunta_tsai · x · 2026-10-07
A programmer quipped that mathematicians just discovered what computer engineers realized decades ago — computers are good at math — because engineers always knew they themselves weren't, and offloaded the work.
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