That's why I've gravitate towards data science/analysis/stats. It's doing real things rather than playing Code Golf.
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That's why I've gravitate towards data science/analysis/stats. It's doing real things rather than playing Code Golf.
A Ph.D. sounds like a good punishment for cheating.
If anything good comes out of the "vibe coding" movement, I hope it's the revival of hobbyist programming. Bring back type-in programs!
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One concept I would like to bury forever is "common sense." Most of "common sense" is just wrong.
Fair enough, I've seen counterexamples in the other comments on your thread. (Admitting errors on social media? That's illegal!)
If you are attempting to dissect cultural trends between the 80s and today, I would argue that one of the most comprehensive resources you can find is the discography of "Weird Al" Yankovic
This is a hegemonic view, in the Gramscian sense. It's just "common sense" across American society, even among "liberal" people.
Only if you're middle-class and above and white!
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Math is called "maths" in British English because they have different ones for England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Bluesky leftists would brand you a class enemy for knowing what a polynomial is.
I would like to start a chain of drive-in restaurants called "Conic's" where the food is shaped like ellipses, cones, parabolas, and hyperbolas.
Talking to a human would be ideal but there's a lot of...variation.
windows pcs are generally for casual users who mostly use it for web browsing and maybe a little gaming. linux is nearly identical except there's no keyboard. macs are for hardcore experts and professionals who take on the toughest tasks, such as drawing three-dimensional rectangles and squares
And Mellotrons.
That's why they didn't want Jewish people going there.
This movement struck me as "degrowth with the serial numbers filed off."
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I think there's a kind of philosophical component to least squares. It's about finding the best path in uncertainty, or making the best of less-than-ideal circumstances.
M-x doctor.
Will Coke Zero still be available? I don't want to spike my A1C!
"Excuse me, I ordered a cone. This is an ellipse."
"I'm sorry, I thought you wanted an ice cream conic."
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Currently in FirstView: In “Survey Quality and Acquiescence Bias: A Cautionary Tale,” Andrés Cruz, Adam Bouyamourn, and @joeornstein.bsky.social discuss the dangers of drawing inferences from low-quality survey datasets. They replicate an experiment on acquiescence and misinformation.
I take the existence of calculators and mathematical software as evidence that professionals find doing it by hand as tedious as I do.
The "traditional" curriculum also emphasizes exact algebraic values when the vast majority of real-world math is numeric.
I've been using code to revisit math, mainly Python with Numpy, SymPy, Seaborn and statsmodels. I even taught myself calculus and linear algebra, though I think I'm leaning toward the latter. NumPy is numerical linear algebra already pretty much.
