Math is a quantitative subject, so it's easy to be fairly quantitative with the grading. |
Over the last 40 years, computers have increased in power by a factor of about 100 million, but access to data has increased in speed by a factor of about 100 times less than that. Even in the last 10 years there has been a lack of improvements in access to data in comparison to the increase in computing power. |
There has been a revolution in the way that scientific computing has been done over the past few years. |