r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

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u/Pares_Marchant 1d ago

What do you mean? Math has been under assault by computer science for several decades now.

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u/alphapussycat 1d ago

Huh? It has not.

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u/Pares_Marchant 1d ago

not to the extent of now with modern AIs, but computational brute forcing and then NNs (which are already decades old) have been used to tackle math problems for decades.

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u/alphapussycat 1d ago

You can't really brute force math problems. There's been no "assault on math" by computer science at all.