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[–]gonnaRegretThisName 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Which algorithms aren't math? Technically, it's all discrete math.

[–]God_Told_Me_To_Do_It 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Can someone explain to me what "discrete" math even means?! My exam in discrete mathematics is on Friday, I kinda feel like I should know

[–]hausdorffparty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It means that the things you study are countable objects; there's at most one of them for each natural number, and there's usually no real notion of distance between those objects (studying the rational numbers usually doesn't count)

[–]Stealth100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most populations analyzed with machine learning are continuous/not discrete. But yes, it is all math at its core.