I have come across a dilemma that I’m sure all programmers\/software engineers have come across or will come across in their career. It’s not a proud admission but it’s an admission even my mentor\/lecturer admits, he doesn’t understand the math to his code. But it’s quite alright he says, you don’t actually need to understand the math to accomplish what you’re doing. I was also really surprised he said HE copy and pasted his code from someone else, this was by someone who was charging money for an Udemy course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That leaves me no choice but to just copy and paste too, which is a shame because only on a very high level do I understand things. And by that, I mean for some algorithms I have absolutely no clue what’s happening. It’s not just a simple matter of looking in the module documentation either, it’s legit trying to understand matrix multiplication and algorithms that have squiggles, gamma, delta and every Greek symbol in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll give credit where credit is due and make sure to painstakingly reference people but it still feels like cheating. I guess this is what people mean when they say “script-kiddies” ruined a website, kids like myself messed with tools that they don’t understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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