communism@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 4 months agoWhat bizarre misconceptions do people have about your field?message-squaremessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down11
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minus-squarewuphysics87@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up18·4 months agoI’m a physicist and we are actually dumb as a box of rocks.
minus-squareUrist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 months agoAs a mathematician I will reiterate what my supervisor told me: Math is not hard, it is only we that suck at it (said in context of me complaining about having used way too much time on what I in retrospect found to be simple).
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-24 months agoPhysicist: Makes a weird formula, uses it for decades without knowing why it works. Mathematician: Looks for an approach that makes sense for decades, dies. I get annoyed with the way they use math sometimes, but I have to keep in mind there is an advantage to it (I guess).
minus-squarewithin_epsilon@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoLearning to explain math to a computer has been a major blessing.
minus-squaremranachi@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 months agoAlso a physicist, and I can confirm that we are all as dumb as rocks.
minus-squaremexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoWe are literally rocks
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoAnything smarter than the box of rocks is just theory
I’m a physicist and we are actually dumb as a box of rocks.
As a mathematician I will reiterate what my supervisor told me: Math is not hard, it is only we that suck at it (said in context of me complaining about having used way too much time on what I in retrospect found to be simple).
Physicist: Makes a weird formula, uses it for decades without knowing why it works.
Mathematician: Looks for an approach that makes sense for decades, dies.
I get annoyed with the way they use math sometimes, but I have to keep in mind there is an advantage to it (I guess).
Learning to explain math to a computer has been a major blessing.
Also a physicist, and I can confirm that we are all as dumb as rocks.
We are literally rocks
Anything smarter than the box of rocks is just theory