communism@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoWhat bizarre misconceptions do people have about your field?message-squaremessage-square72linkfedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down11
arrow-up173arrow-down1message-squareWhat bizarre misconceptions do people have about your field?communism@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square72linkfedilink
minus-squaremystic-macaroni@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 years agoI’m a physicist and we are actually dumb as a box of rocks.
minus-squareUrist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years 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-squarewithin_epsilon@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoLearning to explain math to a computer has been a major blessing.
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).
Learning to explain math to a computer has been a major blessing.