Someone else using fortran in research checking in. In particle physics, were basically writing huge, physics heavy Markov chain monte Carlos in it. Just one example.

You should meet the maths majors who aren’t really interested in maths but think a maths degree will allow them to become hedge fund managers or similar

Understanding something eventually isn’t the same as understanding it immediately. The latter is necessary for effective communication. I don’t have the brain power or neurotype to decipher a text like I would if it were latin.

I’m not saying that you should shut up if you genuinely can’t help it. That’s ok. I’ll figure it out. We can both communicate with each other to the best of our abilities and I won’t mind at all.

But if you can, you should try to be considerate. If you think you spending slightly less time on it is worth me having to spend much more time on understanding it, I find that to be a dick move and I won’t give you the time of day forever.

Idk what you’re talking about, used clothing is both the most affordable and the gaudiest. I love it.

Where’s it listed though? I’ve never seen that, either online or in physical shops. Some places have ‘price last changed dd.mm.yy’ written on the price tags, but it’s far from universal, and doesn’t say how much it was before.

iirc it’s ‘several species of small furry animals gathered in a cave grooving with a pict’

Knowing the template, this actually does make sense. The first three are ones where it’s super clear that you’d have to be quite stupid to fall for it. Then the fourth one, a lot of people wouldn’t immediately realise you have to be stupid to fall for them, but it’s stupid to fall for them nonetheless.

True to the meme format, the point isn’t that it isn’t stupid to fall for the first three. It clearly is. But falling for the fourth one is stupid, too.

(though I must admit, the selection of some of the examples is pretty weird)

The wishing they weren’t a specialist is so real. I wish my psychiatrist was also my GP and my therapist. I’ve found out through her about diagnoses that are in my chart that nobody ever bothered to tell me about and that I overlooked in there, as well as about off label medication uses that you mentioned and medication or illness interactions I never would’ve guessed. Outside her domain too, e.g. between my thyroid meds and ibuprofen. All the GPs I’ve ever been to are either jaded, refuse to learn or admit you might know something they dont, or don’t take you seriously.

I fucking love Ubuntu. Have been on it for about 5 years now. It just works AND doesn’t spy or advertise. Nobody has ever been able to convince me it gets better than that. I don’t need stuff to be difficult to prove to myself I’m smart.

And honestly, this is just as encouraging. Some of this is stuff you cant exactly list on a CV for a job application. A lot of people have interesting experiences, hobbies and special interests under their belt and still feel bad about themselves because their unique skills/knowledge isn’t exactly marketable or something your mum would brag about to other parents. And the stuff that actually does fall under the category of classic success (being in academia, working on the dictionary) isn’t at all what he’s famous for. If it’s cool when Tolkien has a life like this, your unique experiences and skills are cool, too.

That’s pi/100 still. Didn’t say it was a rational number, just that it was a fraction. Though I don’t see a context where it’d make sense.

Yeah stuff like that really ain’t it. It works in a few use cases, but is objectively wrong and detracts from understanding the topic properly. That’s why I teach percentages as the fractions they are. By the time you learn percentages, you already know multiplying fractions is commutative, so the trick still works, and you also understand why.

With how unessecarily smug you were being, I honestly wasn’t sure.

A brand written on a product is an ad. Let alone the ads everywhere in public. Acknowledgimg that you’re seeing an ad makes you less likely to be sub consciously influenced (‘brand awareness’). Pretending you’re immune might make you more susceptible.

Thanks a lot! I’ll try to figure it out myself first, and might get back to you if the need arises!

To be very honest, I’m also a tad embarrassed to share my code. I guess I’ll ask my professor about this.

I’m sorry to tell you this but people do not, in fact, publish mathematical proofs on GitHub routinely. You publish them on arxive once the paper is done. And then in a journal. The solvers themselves aren’t even what it’s about at all, they’re just to do numerical experiments with to have some examples. They aren’t immediately useful for any applications outside niche research.

Because I’m in academia and it’s a slow process to get things published in a way that ‘counts’ to the university and scientific community. I often need to implement stuff first to check a few things, whether it’s viable etc.

Nobody has built a tool that executes a mathematical method that I have developed or at least adapted, at least not before I publish the method.

It’s so old that it was for purposes of saving memory.