Geek humor
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@aqua-letifer said in Geek humor:
@jon-nyc said in Geek humor:
Hey that's in Iceland, I think.
I’m 90% sure you are right.
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wrote on 6 Feb 2022, 13:34 last edited by
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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@George-K Okay. I dont get it!
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@George-K Okay. I dont get it!
wrote on 12 Apr 2022, 02:30 last edited by@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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wrote on 12 Apr 2022, 02:48 last edited by
It’s an old software joke. It’s not a bug, it’s a…..
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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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wrote on 22 Apr 2022, 12:23 last edited by
Thats why we need our weekly math problems.
Speaking of which..
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wrote on 22 Apr 2022, 12:43 last edited by
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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wrote on 22 Apr 2022, 13:16 last edited by
Calculus is so boring. I don't understand why it isn't replaced by more interesting and relevant math topics.
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Calculus is so boring. I don't understand why it isn't replaced by more interesting and relevant math topics.
wrote on 22 Apr 2022, 13:55 last edited by Doctor Phibes@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.
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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.
wrote on 22 Apr 2022, 14:02 last edited by@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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@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.
wrote on 22 Apr 2022, 14:14 last edited by@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.
