bakaneko (nyan.delete@this.hyan.wan) on November 1, 2015 10:11 am wrote:
> dmcq (dmcq.delete@this.fano.co.uk) on November 1, 2015 7:36 am wrote:
> > Engineers like to just get results and are willing to blow an extra couple of hours computer
> > time if it saves them think time. They do have a clue but nobody is an expert at everything.
> > There's no need to talk of them as not having a clue because they use double instead of float!
>
> You don't have a clue about what engineers do or don't.
> Stop talking like you do.
>
> What you claim to be super hard stuff is part of the
> basic education of anyone who wants to be an engineer
> or go into the natural sciences. These people are
> probably the last ones to worry about losing random
> bits and they know how to interpret results.
>
> You are right about that they are as pragmatic as
> everyone else, but you are still wrong and you still
> need to properly learn about floating point math
> before guessing how it is used.

Gosh - well that really tells me. There I was under the erroneous impression that I knew quite a lot about all that and that my experience was perhaps worth something and you've gone and put me in my place. But I really would appreciate a more precise indication of the areas in which you consider me deficient, that would be really constructive thanks rather than just lading on how inadequate I am.