Thanks Day, very cool!

[Day]

look the gap exists, just for the most part its not bc of the identity politics reasons people like to claim, that's the "myth"

[Demosthenes]

Incidentally, I did some diving into Framingham data set a few years back. Dudes are more likely to die from heart disease than women, but LMAO there was a massive correlation between smoking, drinking etc which less women did. Shockingly, the data did not show a link between cholesterol and heart disease.

https://twitter.com/Demios101/status...714415617?s=19

[Demosthenes]

That was a fun one.

[Day]

fuckin nerds

[Demosthenes]

Demo is like a level of stats worker that go above and beyond my understanding of the math and those aren’t words I have cause to say often outside of group theory and weird algebras

No worries, you can out-physics me any day.

[Xno Kappa]

I always loved astronomy growing up. Too bad I suck at math. Takes me forever to set up my orion telescope to look at anything significant.

[Demosthenes]

I always loved astronomy growing up. Too bad I suck at math. Takes me forever to set up my orion telescope to look at anything significant.

Don't sell yourself short. A lot of people that teach math are mediocre at teaching it and most of us are of average intelligence. The combination makes complex mathematics seem daunting for the average person. If you have a phenomenal math teacher though, the shit becomes easy as piss and shockingly, fun.

[Demosthenes]

Most of my maths classes past algebra 2 in HS were a game of memorizing formulas and memorizing how to solve shit. Teachers tend to avoid teaching why a formula works or why you solve it that way, they just tell you it's what you use to solve something, which means fuck all. Then again maybe highschool kids don't actually care about why formulas work.

[Day]

i prefer astrology

[BerenTebogo]

Beyond a point, math stops being intuitive for EVERYONE and progress is due solely to a thorough application of time and effort

It’s not really possible to be bad at advanced mathematics, it’s just possible to be too lazy/busy to succeed

[BerenTebogo]

Same with advanced physics

[BerenTebogo]

There is something to be said about how you are taught algebra and functions and trig and calc and shit

You NEED the fundamentals. When I went back to school I legit needed to relearn how fractions and exponents and shit worked. It was amazingly embarrassing, but it needed to be done.

[Demosthenes]

90% of the mathematics I do is automatically done by software now, I remember how to do shit that would be stupid to implement by hand when you're working with terrabytes of arrays. But knowing why telling the computer to do x and what that does to the data is 1000% more important than learning how to add a 2x2 matrix by hand.

[Demosthenes]

Oh I agree that fundamentals are super fucking important, you can't build a house without a foundation. Anyone can intuit how matrices work but man 99.9999% of us doing fancy mathematics ain't anywhere near Einstein.

[BerenTebogo]

What you said above is categorically incorrect

Not knowing what your code is doing is a recipe for making lasting and pervasive mistakes. It prevents you from properly testing and debugging.

I see this shit too often. It’s gotta be super embarrassing to have to recant the results of your widely cited paper after 10 years because you integrated wrong.

[BerenTebogo]

Comparing analytic results to numerical is like the crux of testing your results rigorously

Like you dont need to do it on petabytes but that shit better work for 1000 random sets of MB size data

[BerenTebogo]

Damn normies

[Demosthenes]

That's gotta suck ass. I was speaking from a position of never having to do almost anything by hand. I firmly believe that (in my situation) knowing how to do it with software and why you do it is more important than being able to do it by hand. It's possible I'm just bitter about the shit I don't actually get to use.

[Demosthenes]

Comparing analytic results to numerical is like the crux of testing your results rigorously

Like you dont need to do it on petabytes but that shit better work for 1000 random sets of MB size data

K folds my dude. I think we chased spam off.

[Day]

you two are acting like a couple real scorpios rn