I use it every single day. In the past I did all kinds of simulations for avionics and flight. I've used it for epidemiology studies, signal processing, augmented reality, machine vision for factories, and nowadays I'm using it in computer vision. I couldn't get anywhere without differential equations, linear algebra, and so on.
Discrete mathematics includes graph theory, discrete statistics, topology, OR, and so on.
College isn't meant to be votech. It's meant to expand your horizons. How would you go off and build a robot, write code for the NIH, work for a VR firm, write code for oil&gas exploration, program a drone if you didn't know this math? My only regret is that I didn't take more math.
I guess it is all taste, but I want the ability to just go and do what I want, and frankly, this sort of work is deeply interesting because it requires you to solve interesting problems. By that I mean that learning the API to Qt or Unity or something is not deeply interesting - it difficult to the extent that it is opaque/poorly documented. Once you learn the pattern to put something together in those frameworks the work becomes quite pedestrian (can you put a button here that ... yes, I can do that, yawn).
Discrete mathematics includes graph theory, discrete statistics, topology, OR, and so on.
College isn't meant to be votech. It's meant to expand your horizons. How would you go off and build a robot, write code for the NIH, work for a VR firm, write code for oil&gas exploration, program a drone if you didn't know this math? My only regret is that I didn't take more math.
I guess it is all taste, but I want the ability to just go and do what I want, and frankly, this sort of work is deeply interesting because it requires you to solve interesting problems. By that I mean that learning the API to Qt or Unity or something is not deeply interesting - it difficult to the extent that it is opaque/poorly documented. Once you learn the pattern to put something together in those frameworks the work becomes quite pedestrian (can you put a button here that ... yes, I can do that, yawn).