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Science has a really nice butt though, ngl
gatekeeping loser shit tbh
it might technically be gatekeeping, but it’s not arbitrary, or even a very high bar. Science just involves doing the scientific method, which anyone, even the guy in the comic, can do. What he’s actually doing, and what a lot of “pop science” stuff is, is trivia. Trivia is awesome, but not really science.
Calling science loser shit is a bold stance. Aren’t you a fellow believer and practitioner in the “immortal science”?
“Loving everything about something even the boring parts” isn’t even how love works so i don’t feel the need to address the rest of the gatekeeping
I like race cars. I’ve never designed a race car.
You don’t need to study 5+ years full time to like the scientific method.
I appreciate movies and TV without wanting to be an actor.
I appreciate science and what it does without wanting to be a scientist.
I love science. But like the way catholics don’t know anything real about god (obviously), I don’t know anything real about science. I just know (or believe) that science can provide real answers and if it does something wrong, it will be corrected. I cannot provide those answers, but I trust in the people who can.
Science is like my religion. I am a simple believer, scientists are the monks and scribes, science communicators are the pastors and preachers.
Idk at least the scientific method includes some kind of testing process that religion just doesn’t
My take on their comment was that they know this but consider it their ‘religion’ anyways because they don’t understand the process and so, in the absence of true understanding, take it on faith alone that the process actually works out
But the evidence is all around us even if you don’t understand the processes themselves: Science built us a moon landing, religion built us the dark ages
I like to watch PBS spacetime on Youtube. It keeps me humble.
I understand 10% of it on a good day.
See your mistake was starting with advanced calculus when they don’t even know basic calculus yet
Advanced calculus? In this house, we use numerical methods!
What about Action Lab?
I’m officially triggered. There’s no such thing as “advanced calculus”. Yes, I’m aware of Loomis and Sternberg. That book was literally written to stroke the authors’ ego.
Differential geometry along with complex, real and functional analysis could perhaps be considered advanced calculus?
I think anyone at the point of learning those subjects would just call them by their name. From my experience, “advanced calculus” usually refers to introduction to real analisys courses like Spivak or even Baby Rudin. It seems nowadays it’s being used to refer to multivariate and DEs, which I guess makes a little more sense but it still bothers me.
“I love Lemmy” mfers when they’re not self housing their own instance so they can test charges before submitting a PR to the repo.
Academia and gatekeeping, name a more iconic duo
in the words of a great sage: “the only difference between science and messing about, is writing it down”
What exactly is advanced calculus? Abstract algebra, functional analysis or something else?
I love engineering motherfuckers when the engineering is actually watching and talking shit and not actually advanced calculus
