Geek humor
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Some say that people in modern society are atomized. But in this paper I argue that things are even worse than that: People are bosonated, leptonified, and even quarked up
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K Okay. I dont get it!
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@taiwan_girl said in Geek humor:
@George-K Okay. I dont get it!
I didn’t get it either but I was too embarrassed to say. Thanks TG for stepping up.
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DON’T let them eat cake.
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DON’T let them eat cake.
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@jon-nyc said in Geek humor:
That's depressingly true. Even worse, I was probably better at calculus than I am at Excel.
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Thats why we need our weekly math problems.
Speaking of which..
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I know more math now than I did when I graduated college. Not being afraid of it turned out to be a huge differentiator. Now I get to spend my days on interesting creative problem solving rather than tedious coding. Linear algebra and how matrices work has proven especially important.
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@Klaus said in Geek humor:
Calculus is so boring. I don't understand why it isn't replaced by more interesting and relevant math topics.
It's funny - we did Group Theory at high school, aged 15, but I never touched it again. Differential equations, differential equations, differential equations. They completely ruined Quantum Mechanics for me, too, by making it all about those godawful things.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Geek humor:
@Klaus said in Geek humor:
Calculus is so boring. I don't understand why it isn't replaced by more interesting and relevant math topics.
It's funny - we did Group Theory at high school, aged 15, but I never touched it again. Differential equations, differential equations, differential equations. They completely ruined Quantum Mechanics for me, too, by making it all about those godawful things.
Well, I do understand that calculus is important in physics and some branches of engineering, but you could just as well argue that a deeper knowledge of, say, probability or abstract algebra or logic or linear algebra or matrices or complex numbers or category theory or ... is equally relevant.
In my opinion, the main motivation to teach advanced math to the general highschool public is to train a particular way of thinking. This is more relevant than the actual technical content. In that sense, I'd replace calculus by universal (not abstract) algebra, because it is the most direct representation of mathematical thinking we know.
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@Klaus said in Geek humor:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Geek humor:
@Klaus said in Geek humor:
Calculus is so boring. I don't understand why it isn't replaced by more interesting and relevant math topics.
It's funny - we did Group Theory at high school, aged 15, but I never touched it again. Differential equations, differential equations, differential equations. They completely ruined Quantum Mechanics for me, too, by making it all about those godawful things.
Well, I do understand that calculus is important in physics and some branches of engineering, but you could just as well argue that a deeper knowledge of, say, probability or abstract algebra or logic or linear algebra or matrices or complex numbers or category theory or ... is equally relevant.
In my opinion, the main motivation to teach advanced math to the general highschool public is to train a particular way of thinking. This is more relevant than the actual technical content. In that sense, I'd replace calculus by universal (not abstract) algebra, because it is the most direct representation of mathematical thinking we know.
I think making maths more interesting would be a really good idea. I genuinely loved doing maths at highschool, and really enjoyed the university courses that weren't all about solving increasingly unpleasant DE's.
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Math is taught as a collection of short-hand tricks that the students don't understand as anything more than black boxes that happen to work for some strange reason. Learning how to do long-hand multiplication or division is not more educational of math than learning where the Calculator app is in the app store and learning how to push the right buttons.
