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You seem to be suffering from a variant of the Typical Mind Fallacy [1], let's call it... the Typical Programmer Fallacy. Most programmers never need to do things you mentioned, or anything else that requires linear algebra.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/



She's talking about people doing computer science and not about what most programmers do.




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