@amitnkalra nice work!

@nivo0o0 thank you! 🙌

@amitnkalra Nice work man but a little bit of humility would go a long way tbh

@cbanowsky "17 years young" "yoooo" "I made this really dope app" all sound pretentious. Especially when you hunted your own product.

@cbanowsky What pretentious about calling your app dope or saying "yoooo" I think it's super cool. Let's just applaud him for what he made rather than finding ways to demotivate him. @macconnollyco

@emmanuel_lemor let me ask you something - when's the last time you've used the quadratic formula in real life? what's the point of knowing it if it's not benefitting you in real life. kids usually study the formula, use it on the test, 2 weeks after they've forgot it. And they'll never use it again in the real life. The app does also show step by step solutions :)

@amitnkalra Amit, that question or similar is so reflective of the fact that you are a teenager and I can respect that I was one once as well [not that long ago], and at that time, I had a pretty tough dad who said: "you can buy that HP 48SX you want to buy with your money that you earned as long as you can show me that you can do every function in your head or on paper [took a 3 day weekend]" - might seem harsh from your point of view but he didn't want me to have the excuse to not do well on a test because my calculator died... Today, I can't tell you how much I am thankful for what at the time seemed like a tough weekend :/ lol I actually used the Quadratic equation 3 months ago and NO, I am not a Math Teacher. And square roots, I use every once in a while too, as well as circumference, diameters, products, divisions, multiplications, additions, subtractions and percentages - some of those every day... and yet I don't have a job that has anything to do with math... But the most important thing that you are missing here is Math teaches structure, organization, discipline [in your brain], logic, workflow, understanding of process, linking of data/information between themselves, how to manipulate data/information to achieve a new goal or purpose and that you can NOT live life without doing... even if you are a county street cleaner picking up refuse [not that there is ANYTHING wrong with that job btw, I was just using that to illustrate that it's not so much the type of job one might associate with math like rocket science or astrophysicist]... The reality is for elementary and high school math, inborn talent [being genetically predispositioned to being good at math] is just much less important than hard work, preparation, and self-confidence. So, unless your App, forces the student through the steps somehow and teaches them that logic, those tricks, those new ways to wire their brains, make those jumps in understanding, I stand by what I wrote earlier. And by the way, an App that could do THAT, you could run an entire SaaS company around... and it *would* be helpful your fellow students greatly... [As a side note, a study came out in 2014 by Univ. of CA, Santa Barbara, which links Math and Social Skills with people earning more money in life]... so I guess Math does have it's uses after all ;)

@amitnkalra @emmanuel_lemor hey Amit, i think its absolutely amazing what you pulled off especially for your age. i wish i had started as early as you. you're off to a great career in computer science. as you expect now comes the "but" :) i had precisely the same thinking about certain topics i learned in high school. i thought i would never need that level of calculus or the skill to interpret poetry. actually, turns out i was right about poetry :D BUT i was very wrong about the math skills. let me just throw a few examples in your direction: - Machine / Deep Learning is math exclusively. The only reason you also need some CS skills is to tell the computer what it should calculate. its about the multiplication of huge matrices, finding the derivatives of functions to optimize weights and make the algorithm perform better. - 3D computer graphics is also only math. defining polygons in a 3D space, finding the intersection of rays hitting objects, calculating different portions of light and their angles to make the scene look realistic. defining interpolation functions like spline to make animations look good - Editing pictures means nothing else than modifying pixel values by various functions or convolution kernels. detecting edges and objects by optimizing away information you don't need. its all math. also, asking "when's the last time you've used the quadratic formula in real life?" to stress that you never really need, is a pretty ballsy move for someone your age.

@gopietz @emmanuel_lemor Not everyone is going to be a computer scientist. And Editing Pictures? Come on, you're telling me stuff that goes on internally, photographers that edit their pictures don't use math...

@amitnkalra @emmanuel_lemor yes, i was only talking about computer science related work. But Math is a common denominator among well paid jobs in general. i just dont want you to think that you wont need this stuff in the future.