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		mywittyname on May 3, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Over 30? Too Old for Tech Jobs in China The vast majority of programmers do need to understand boolean algebra though. Likewise, you do need to understand matrix algebra and statistics to do any AI/ML beyond a color-by-numbers problem. At some point you need to explain why something works.

mattmanser on May 3, 2018 [–]

Matrix algebra and statistics are taught in high school, or at least were when I was young.

A random 40 y/o programmer might be rusty on it, but it's not going to take very long to pick it all up again.

And if you've done any game programming even just for fun, you probably know quite a bit of that already.

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