• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    6 months ago

    As an actuarie this meme is kinda true but mostly false. I had classes on some advanced maths like ordinary differential equations that have never use on my day to day job. But, the actuarial sciences math in collage was elementary school level of abstraction compared with the real world. There’s still a lot of excel tho, but I’m cool and use python (pandas) wherever I can.

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      6 months ago

      Same here, I still do a lot of complex problem solving and modeling but excel/python handles a lot of the dirty work for me.

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      6 months ago

      This is a tangent but, I dunno why we teach students how to solve ODEs. Computers can do these stuffs perfectly fine. What they can’t do is the actual understanding and analysis.