And that's just it. Even the computer parts is just the artsy bits. None of the actual 'science'.
Well it probably wouldn't be too important for you to know how the background stuff works, but it sucks that you don't even have the option to study it as general interest (or do you?)
I get to take a course on numerical solutions to advanced partial differential equations next term.
Probably the course I'm most excited for.
You're an odd person. Let's make a club.
I did a computational modelling class last semester, which was a pretty bad time for it. Most of the stuff we were doing is just starting to make sense now that we're learning about eigenvectors and in depth stuff on matrices and differential equations, but even worse than that it assumed a basic knowledge of programming without mentioning it anywhere on applications or anything for a first semester, first year course. Oh, and the lecturers both had really strong german accents. Talking about a 'callamwecter' when we don't know what a column vector is in the first place makes things a bit tough. Understanding what we were doing then now is pretty interesting though. Thankfully I think they realised everyone was doing really badly, and made the exam incredibly easy so I ended up getting a 92.
Yeah, I've had quite a few classes that just assume knowledge of programming languages. It was pretty annoying at first, but after a few it's gotten better. All my code is still probably horribly hacked together pieces of shit, but it works, at least.
I've had an inordinate number of eastern European professors. My electromagnetism professor this term is completely incomprehensible, unless I completely devote all my attention to just understanding what the hell he's saying.
Oh man I had an unspecified eastern european lecturer for calculus last semester, his accent was fantastic. The calculus was all basic shit that we had done in high so I didn't really need to understand him anyway, but he was all "and now ve deedive de fanction", it was great. Then his replacement lecturer while he was away for a bit mentioned that he was from Hungary and all the mystique went away.
Russians ain't got nothing on Iranians.
Scariest class of my life: real analysis, measure theory, and Hilbert spaces, with a mean Iranian motherfucker who didn't quite understand that American undergrads don't know as much math as he did.
Did I mention that in a stats course I took, the instructor's Chinese accent was such that there was no phonetic difference between how she said qualitative and how she said quantitative.
There were times where she would write both on the board and point to the one she meant while saying it.
I bet it'll be sucky poopy maths with no practical applications
A-ha! you have shown your hand
No one awesome really cares about practical applications wrt mathematics
And by "no one awesome" I am mostly referring to G. H. Hardy, but man that guy was pretty good with words regarding pure mathematics
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world... Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value.
All right, I'll join the fray.
Applied math is cooler because you have a reason to do it. On the other hand, everything you thought was pure will be applied to something someday, so it's worthwhile for somebody to be messing around with pure math under the delusion that it exists for pure intellectual amusement. Here's to sophisticated pure math! Eventually it'll all be used for porn, like all scientific innovation.
Conversely, if you're doing something just for the sake of pure intellectual amusement and puzzle-solving, then you aren't hindered by the concerns and imperfections of application as you work.
Besides, any pure mathematician will tell you that "incidental utility" is a tolerable price to pay in order to dive headfirst into the frontier of mathematics.
alright have fun with all your books while the planet is all grooss while im sittin in comfort in my moonhouse
and all of humanity will benefit from getting to the moon faster
for some reason
we haven't ascertained what it is yet but trust us
you do. You honestly feel this way. You pretend that you're joking but you actually believe this. You are incredibly ignorant and have no idea what you're talking about. It's hilarious.
uh no I don't actually feel this way I actually think scientific advancement is pretty neat and respect it enormously even if I myself am not very scientifically gifted
but you're right even though I know that I'm joking and I say that I'm joking I'm probably not joking for some reason (??)
alright have fun with all your books while the planet is all grooss while im sittin in comfort in my moonhouse
and all of humanity will benefit from getting to the moon faster
for some reason
we haven't ascertained what it is yet but trust us
you do. You honestly feel this way. You pretend that you're joking but you actually believe this. You are incredibly ignorant and have no idea what you're talking about. It's hilarious.
uh no I don't actually feel this way I actually think scientific advancement is pretty neat and respect it enormously even if I myself am not very scientifically gifted
but you're right even though I know that I'm joking and I say that I'm joking I'm probably not joking for some reason (??)
new zealand education, ladies and gentlemen
part of it might be you coming off as a giant douche at all times, no matter your intentions
alright have fun with all your books while the planet is all grooss while im sittin in comfort in my moonhouse
and all of humanity will benefit from getting to the moon faster
for some reason
we haven't ascertained what it is yet but trust us
you do. You honestly feel this way. You pretend that you're joking but you actually believe this. You are incredibly ignorant and have no idea what you're talking about. It's hilarious.
uh no I don't actually feel this way I actually think scientific advancement is pretty neat and respect it enormously even if I myself am not very scientifically gifted
but you're right even though I know that I'm joking and I say that I'm joking I'm probably not joking for some reason (??)
new zealand education, ladies and gentlemen
part of it might be you coming off as a giant douche at all times, no matter your intentions
Natek just called you a douche and in response you said that he wasn't very bright. If that doesn't illustrate his point perfectly, I don't know what does.
All we need to do is get all the musicians to wear moon rock jewelry then the demand for it will skyrocket. This will create a huge market for moon rocks and we will have plenty of reason to put a base on the moon.
it's basically a clapping harem going to the wailing wall whereupon they spend a whole bunch of hours taking an exam on the whole of torah as their mothers throw candy at them?
I'm 18 and haven't had my bar mitzvah yet. I was learning Hebrew with my brother when I was 11 and was getting good at it! But then we kind of forgot about it and no one's brought it up yet so
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this changes nothing of my post
Well it probably wouldn't be too important for you to know how the background stuff works, but it sucks that you don't even have the option to study it as general interest (or do you?)
Oh man I had an unspecified eastern european lecturer for calculus last semester, his accent was fantastic. The calculus was all basic shit that we had done in high so I didn't really need to understand him anyway, but he was all "and now ve deedive de fanction", it was great. Then his replacement lecturer while he was away for a bit mentioned that he was from Hungary and all the mystique went away.
nope sorry hating calculus is not allowed, you live under my roof you live under my rules.
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Scariest class of my life: real analysis, measure theory, and Hilbert spaces, with a mean Iranian motherfucker who didn't quite understand that American undergrads don't know as much math as he did.
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There were times where she would write both on the board and point to the one she meant while saying it.
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No one awesome really cares about practical applications wrt mathematics
And by "no one awesome" I am mostly referring to G. H. Hardy, but man that guy was pretty good with words regarding pure mathematics
Someone today asked what the application of something we were doing today was. I thought it was a silly question to be asking in a math class.
Applied math is cooler because you have a reason to do it. On the other hand, everything you thought was pure will be applied to something someday, so it's worthwhile for somebody to be messing around with pure math under the delusion that it exists for pure intellectual amusement. Here's to sophisticated pure math! Eventually it'll all be used for porn, like all scientific innovation.
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Sometimes I wonder if I should've gone into film...I dunno. I mean I like cartoons a lot more and computer graphics just seem more interesting to me.
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Besides, any pure mathematician will tell you that "incidental utility" is a tolerable price to pay in order to dive headfirst into the frontier of mathematics.
uh no I don't actually feel this way I actually think scientific advancement is pretty neat and respect it enormously even if I myself am not very scientifically gifted
but you're right even though I know that I'm joking and I say that I'm joking I'm probably not joking for some reason (??)
new zealand education, ladies and gentlemen
fuck math.
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part of it might be you coming off as a giant douche at all times, no matter your intentions
well yes
the moon is like a religion with these homos
it's total lunacy
hah, lunacy.
so it's something that SE++ probably expects?
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natek I had hoped you were brighter than this
well except I am pretty sure that most people are bright enough to understand that I'm not writing off interplanetary travel as worthless
another instance where I think something is so ridiculous that no one will take me seriously but I guess not!
I don't think anyone's given me the benefit of the doubt in months though so I shouldn't be surprised
I just be laying down some facts
We form a chai-ve mind
e- Oh god Fari that made me do a double take
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you know who else laid down facts
historians that documented the so-called "moon landing"
CHECK and MATE, nate kay
No, I'm AMP'd
I'm the other jailed Jew that made the same joke at the same time
you are the silly billy!
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they were both very jewish? I remember the ceremony itself being pretty boring but I was a pretty irreverent and shitty kid so
I went to fifteen
And Fari is in New York so he can almost definitely top that
And they were mostly all boring, as are pretty much all formal services in Judaism
The parties were fun, though
it's basically a clapping harem going to the wailing wall whereupon they spend a whole bunch of hours taking an exam on the whole of torah as their mothers throw candy at them?
this is followed by lots of boozing
that sounds like a god damn experience