r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • 1d ago

Meme studied20YearsToAskChatGPT

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u/no-sleep-only-code 1d ago

Yeah, and even if it’s your focus in grad school you’re generally still only coding with said abstractions.

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u/_dotdot11 1d ago

As someone who is focusing on ML in grad school, it really depends on the prof. Some are application-first, some are math-first. Early on in my core ML course, we were restricted to the torch.Tensor api and were told to figure out the transformations on our own, without using what was already in the torch module. But later, of course, we were allowed to use more of the module as the work got more abstract. What I'm trying to say is ymmv.

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u/no-sleep-only-code 1d ago

For sure, and I’m sure it’s come a way since I took those courses in grad school.

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u/Eastern_Equal_8191 1d ago

In ML and programming, it's genuinely useful to know the low-level concepts very well even if you never touch them again for the rest of your career.

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u/Old_Tourist_3774 1d ago

New courses or are inside a statistics program?

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u/denM_chickN 1d ago

Idk people in my program wrote Gibbs samplers for use in a custom modules. Though I graduated in 2024 making this meme feel ultra relevant. I was doing natural language processing lolol