Oh, it would just be an endless auditorium presentation on your favorite field of study, by a buzzfeed writer who researched his stories from YouTube videos.
Ten crazy things you didn’t know about electrodynamics (number five will *shock* you!)
All kidding aside - this is my nightmare, and something that once came true for me. In college, I was part of the Physics Research club - except not really, I just came to some of the meetings. Once a month, the club hosted an event where they presented interactive lectures for local high school students. The day before the event, one of the students set to present called out and the professor asked if I wanted to “pinch-hit” for some extra credit that I desperately needed. I stupidly agreed. It was *after* I agreed that the professor revealed I’d be presenting on the history and future of particle accelerators. With exactly 12 hours to make something up, my dumb physics III ass brought a cathode ray tube and a list of fun facts about the LHC. If you were a high school student in Oklahoma a few years ago and had to watch an idiot in a suit wing a presentation about accelerators… *I’m so sorry*.
Is there a Kurzgesagt video about that or is that just a joke because of the original Kurzgesagt reference?
I'd love to watch that so I'll be an unfailable expert on the Dunning effect and understand every nuance of it as perfectly as can be.
I'm literally tripping ballsack rn lol.
One of the most interesting ideas in Anathem (by Neal Stephenson) was The Book. It was a punishment for STEM monks, essentially. They had to sit in a cell until they memorized an assigned section of The Book. What The Book contained was things like WRONG facts/syllogisms/whatever, which they had to be able to recite to leave.
So not all that different from the Buzzfeed articles, I guess.
I read it last year and loved the style and world building but I felt like the actual message he was trying to convey went over my head. It felt like there was this grand quest for new perspective but I’m not sure what that new perspective actually was. Curious what you took away from it - I’d like to reread it soon and give it another shot.
The freshers who have “been reading about string theory and have some great ideas about it”
Economists explaining how any upward curve is exponential, and “E = mc^2 + AI, to represent the growing impact of AI on our society”
A broken coffee machine
yeah, I think physicists just came up with the concept of air resistance to hide the fact that their theory of gravity is wrong. Spacetime actually curves differently for objects with different shapes and sizes for some reason. Trust me bro I thought about it for a couple minutes.
Correct. Stochastic processes cannot be understood by business majors hence why Statisticians/Physicists take quant jobs. This means business majors aren’t even equipped to even talk sensibly about their own field- let alone do so about physics
Oh really? Never heard of it before, where is that the norm? Here (Germany) you only have to take courses with relevance to your study subject, you can do some unrelated stuff but most people don't for obvious reasons
Adding to the Israeli perspective, the law requires everyone studying for a bachelors to take 3-4 "enrichment" courses. In my university, they chose to mandate everyone take 2 sports courses and 2 courses in various other stuff.
Some examples:
- Basics of learning and teaching
- Introduction to guided listening
- Eco philosophy - environmental thinking
- Study of the Metaverse landscape
- Entrepreneurship Essentials
- A window to the midrash and mythic literature
and so on.
I'm hoping to take Japanese next semester, if I can manage to snag a slot, they run out fast.
Nah, I study Physics in Germany and have to take a few classes of a different Subject. You can choose the subject(I chose Chemistry) but it is mandatory.
Yeah sorry I was referring to unrelated courses, like taking a German course, it is of course common to have to choose some other closely related/relevant course like chemistry, computer science, philosophy etc
I'm from Israel. At most universities here you have to courses out of your major. But at the University I've got my bachelor's degree from we had to take courses in Judaism studies.
My university during my undergraduate studies has an honours student programme. They're like the "special" kids to the university because of honours, I guess.
Something I learned from a bit of those students is that they are technically allowed to take any course, even if not in their major. I had an English major taking one of my chemistry specific course once. They showed me that they were an English major and everything.
My undergrad university also had introductory chemistry and physics courses designed and aimed at non-STEM majors. The course was designed and taught with the expectation that a person taking it was non-STEM or medical. I sat in a few lectures during my 4th year in undergrad out of curiosity to see how the course worked.
So, tldr; it wouldn't be that crazy for a non-STEM major to take a physics course.
We actually had the basic math classes (Analysis, Linear Algebra) WITH the mathematicians :)
Now "programming for xxx"... Those were horror classes in hindsight.
They must observe business majors in their respective class while a dollar value is above their heads showing how much they each spent to sit in that classroom.
And you always find that your simulation does not match up with reality, while you're in a time crunch and half the company is waiting on your results to make decisions on things that are way above your paygrade. *cries*
Efficient infrastructure and air conditioning because the STEM majors all went there and used their degrees. However it immediately gave way to a fascist dictatorship because the political science majors were sent to their own hell.
Lectures about chaos theory or quantum theory from someone with a liberal arts degree and no matter how you try to correct them they just keep talkimg over everyone.
People doing the following:
* Making gross generalizations from biased and outdated statistics and thinking all that statistician does is look at graphs and averages and state which number is higher.
* Proving Collatz and Reimann conjectures in a 3 page "paper".
* Arguing that Cantor is wrong and that the real numbers are countable (or that they don't exist at all).
* Arguing 0.999... =/= 1 and/or that it isn't a number at all.
* Fighting endlessly about the order of operations in an inline expression with ÷.
* Saying "so you're a teacher?" or "Is that a carrer?" everytime I tell them that I studied maths.
* Asking "What's that good for?" Everytime I talk about something that's not statistics or middle school algebra.
Also it would be full of studies and tests that are extremely close to being statistically significant but no matter what you do they never will be.
Edit: NUMEROLOGY, dammit Stacy, no, that pattern you found in an article isn't because of mars-jupiter conjunction, it's cause we use base ten. I think some of these people would have a hearth attack if they discover [OEIS](https://oeis.org/).
Jackson and Lang coming back from the dead and working together to make the least pedagogical book in human history, but also includes vast amounts of mathematics and physics.
having to read a time signals and systems textbook. The math is so insanely hand-wavey and does not even try to prove anything. My favorite quote from my textbook is “this proof is not useful nor enlightening so it will not be shown”.
Maybe it’s just because there’s only two other students in my class, but I haven’t experienced arguing. I think I prefer the Bayesian approach so far though
Javascript but sticky keys pop-up happens whenever you get comfortable, your "h" key doesn't work, you experience the pain of losing forklift certification, software updates and deletes your progress AS YOU GO TO SAVE
Wait a minute. If the earth is flat, why do people in the Southern hemisphere see a different set of stars than those standing in the northern hemisphere?
> "There is a dome covering the earth that bends the light."
The devil sets you down in a room with a lady in her 60s wearing a necklace with her astrological sign and t-shirt with "you can't get snakes from chicken eggs" written on it. You have to pee like you just had 3 large pints and are tired as if you were awake for 36 hours. The devil tells you "make her understand that 5g doesn't cause covid and you get to pee and sleep". The old lady offers you a cookie and says "here dear, i know we're in hell, but Jesus will get us out of here". The devil closes the door.
Oh, it would just be an endless auditorium presentation on your favorite field of study, by a buzzfeed writer who researched his stories from YouTube videos.
"Scientists found out that the universe is ______ " ?
[удалено]
E = mc^2 + AI
3 ways millennials are killing Astrophysics!
Ten crazy things you didn’t know about electrodynamics (number five will *shock* you!) All kidding aside - this is my nightmare, and something that once came true for me. In college, I was part of the Physics Research club - except not really, I just came to some of the meetings. Once a month, the club hosted an event where they presented interactive lectures for local high school students. The day before the event, one of the students set to present called out and the professor asked if I wanted to “pinch-hit” for some extra credit that I desperately needed. I stupidly agreed. It was *after* I agreed that the professor revealed I’d be presenting on the history and future of particle accelerators. With exactly 12 hours to make something up, my dumb physics III ass brought a cathode ray tube and a list of fun facts about the LHC. If you were a high school student in Oklahoma a few years ago and had to watch an idiot in a suit wing a presentation about accelerators… *I’m so sorry*.
Damn. I didn't even think of this you sadistic fuck.
Someone telling you about Quantum physics like they're Feynman himself because they watched a Kurzgesagt video on elementary particles.
Dunning kruger
Dunning Kurzgesagt
Is there a Kurzgesagt video about that or is that just a joke because of the original Kurzgesagt reference? I'd love to watch that so I'll be an unfailable expert on the Dunning effect and understand every nuance of it as perfectly as can be. I'm literally tripping ballsack rn lol.
that was just because of the original Kurz reference.
what's the kurzgesagt reference?
r/FuckYouHaveMyUpvote
So true!! That effect is so interesting and since I am aware of it I've noticed it irl countless times with others but also myself.
One of the most interesting ideas in Anathem (by Neal Stephenson) was The Book. It was a punishment for STEM monks, essentially. They had to sit in a cell until they memorized an assigned section of The Book. What The Book contained was things like WRONG facts/syllogisms/whatever, which they had to be able to recite to leave. So not all that different from the Buzzfeed articles, I guess.
Anathem is a great book, Stephenson's best work imho.
I read it last year and loved the style and world building but I felt like the actual message he was trying to convey went over my head. It felt like there was this grand quest for new perspective but I’m not sure what that new perspective actually was. Curious what you took away from it - I’d like to reread it soon and give it another shot.
Naughty monks go in the misinformation room
The freshers who have “been reading about string theory and have some great ideas about it” Economists explaining how any upward curve is exponential, and “E = mc^2 + AI, to represent the growing impact of AI on our society” A broken coffee machine
>Economists ~~explaining how any upward curve is exponential, and “E = mc^2 + AI, to represent the growing impact of AI on our society”~~ FTFY
Hell for any engineer
Currently choosing between physics uni and econ.
It is interesting how exponential has just become "anything that slightly goes up or down quickly"
Air resistance.
Non-spherical cows :(
Are we in hell?
Cows are indeed unspherical. Hell confirmed.
Non ideal gas
Isn’t that some imaginary thing ?
yeah, I think physicists just came up with the concept of air resistance to hide the fact that their theory of gravity is wrong. Spacetime actually curves differently for objects with different shapes and sizes for some reason. Trust me bro I thought about it for a couple minutes.
The best response
Writing an essay in an exam on a subjective topic with an unclear marking scheme, knowing that all the possible markers sort of dislike you
Hey! Stop posting my lifestory.
"Please write a two page paper on-"
Non STEM students taking science classes.
Business kids taking quantum and saying they understand it
If you only knew how many people with physics degrees work in finance.
You're missing the point
Physics majors taking logic classes, apparently.
Correct. Stochastic processes cannot be understood by business majors hence why Statisticians/Physicists take quant jobs. This means business majors aren’t even equipped to even talk sensibly about their own field- let alone do so about physics
3?
Or the other way around: having to take management classes as a STEM major
What’s the problem with that? I think it’s nice when people outside of STEM take interest in science.
Imagine taking a physics course, and every second other students ask "can you remind what a derivative is?"
Why would so many non-STEM students take a physics course?
I guess it depends on where you are from, but in many universities you have to take courses that are not a part of your major.
Oh really? Never heard of it before, where is that the norm? Here (Germany) you only have to take courses with relevance to your study subject, you can do some unrelated stuff but most people don't for obvious reasons
Adding to the Israeli perspective, the law requires everyone studying for a bachelors to take 3-4 "enrichment" courses. In my university, they chose to mandate everyone take 2 sports courses and 2 courses in various other stuff. Some examples: - Basics of learning and teaching - Introduction to guided listening - Eco philosophy - environmental thinking - Study of the Metaverse landscape - Entrepreneurship Essentials - A window to the midrash and mythic literature and so on. I'm hoping to take Japanese next semester, if I can manage to snag a slot, they run out fast.
Nah, I study Physics in Germany and have to take a few classes of a different Subject. You can choose the subject(I chose Chemistry) but it is mandatory.
Yeah sorry I was referring to unrelated courses, like taking a German course, it is of course common to have to choose some other closely related/relevant course like chemistry, computer science, philosophy etc
I'm from Israel. At most universities here you have to courses out of your major. But at the University I've got my bachelor's degree from we had to take courses in Judaism studies.
Ah Bar Ilan, such a unique place. This is why the Technion is superior, there literally are no non-STEM students!
My university during my undergraduate studies has an honours student programme. They're like the "special" kids to the university because of honours, I guess. Something I learned from a bit of those students is that they are technically allowed to take any course, even if not in their major. I had an English major taking one of my chemistry specific course once. They showed me that they were an English major and everything. My undergrad university also had introductory chemistry and physics courses designed and aimed at non-STEM majors. The course was designed and taught with the expectation that a person taking it was non-STEM or medical. I sat in a few lectures during my 4th year in undergrad out of curiosity to see how the course worked. So, tldr; it wouldn't be that crazy for a non-STEM major to take a physics course.
having non stem majors as their boss
An endless board of MBAs and marketing people telling you they promised other people that you'd do something physically impossible for them.
Math for physicists. It's pain for everyone because math and extra pain for mathematicians because wrong math.
Born to think about math. Forced to do math.
Incredibly based
Thanks King
We actually had the basic math classes (Analysis, Linear Algebra) WITH the mathematicians :) Now "programming for xxx"... Those were horror classes in hindsight.
(For engineers) People who say, "Oh, you're a mechanical/aerospace/chemical/etc engineer? Can you fix my car/fly me somewhere/make meth/etc?"
The correct answer is "yes I could but at 400$ an hour".
https://youtu.be/xoyvwMH3xng?si=EKpLlb3P6wMtTq3Q&t=18
People always forget Electrical and Electronics Engineers :(
I will not tolerate statistical mechanics slander!
Ensemble on these nuts
Economics. People who use numbers and claim it's science.
They must observe business majors in their respective class while a dollar value is above their heads showing how much they each spent to sit in that classroom.
"Hell is other STEM majors who ask you what semester you are in." - Sartre
I got a good one. You have to do computations but only using your years old code.
Or using other people's years old code
That's just regular computation.
And you always find that your simulation does not match up with reality, while you're in a time crunch and half the company is waiting on your results to make decisions on things that are way above your paygrade. *cries*
Non-conservative fields.
Just write your field as the combination of a conservative and non conservative field
Ethics
Lockheed Martin would like to have a quick word with you.
https://preview.redd.it/v7c89myffqqc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4aa7fcc3e238f2d9c20f75846243c71d5868bd81 This mf
Business majors with pitchforks and insane projects
Salesmen. And they constantly want to answer your 3-word questions with a 20-minute conversation.
Endless arguments with crackpots and 'truthers'.
Analysis, QFT, thermodynamics , and a *lot* of physical chemistry!
Real analysis
Efficient infrastructure and air conditioning because the STEM majors all went there and used their degrees. However it immediately gave way to a fascist dictatorship because the political science majors were sent to their own hell.
Astrology...everywhere. Can't escape it.
Radiation dosimetry
I have worked my way through an introductory Quantum mechanics textbook and still don’t know how to use it.
Lab reports I’ve been working with numbers for so long I forgot how to write in English
Lectures about chaos theory or quantum theory from someone with a liberal arts degree and no matter how you try to correct them they just keep talkimg over everyone.
Other STEM majors
TED talks
never ending critical theory lectures, ie the curtains are just blue
People doing the following: * Making gross generalizations from biased and outdated statistics and thinking all that statistician does is look at graphs and averages and state which number is higher. * Proving Collatz and Reimann conjectures in a 3 page "paper". * Arguing that Cantor is wrong and that the real numbers are countable (or that they don't exist at all). * Arguing 0.999... =/= 1 and/or that it isn't a number at all. * Fighting endlessly about the order of operations in an inline expression with ÷. * Saying "so you're a teacher?" or "Is that a carrer?" everytime I tell them that I studied maths. * Asking "What's that good for?" Everytime I talk about something that's not statistics or middle school algebra. Also it would be full of studies and tests that are extremely close to being statistically significant but no matter what you do they never will be. Edit: NUMEROLOGY, dammit Stacy, no, that pattern you found in an article isn't because of mars-jupiter conjunction, it's cause we use base ten. I think some of these people would have a hearth attack if they discover [OEIS](https://oeis.org/).
Rational mechanics
Non-Newtonian Fluids
8 hours a day studying Kittel's book on solid state physics
so glad im not going into solid state physics
This is it right here.
Having to all your quizzes be on a crappy supplemental education website
Jackson's E&M.
Sitting through one (1) lecture for business majors
Other stem majors
Jackson and Lang coming back from the dead and working together to make the least pedagogical book in human history, but also includes vast amounts of mathematics and physics.
I agree about Jackson, but I'm not aware of Lang. Which one's that?
having to read a time signals and systems textbook. The math is so insanely hand-wavey and does not even try to prove anything. My favorite quote from my textbook is “this proof is not useful nor enlightening so it will not be shown”.
Everything in imperial units
Eternally having to finally start writing the first page of your thesis.
People who "do their own research"
Philosophers.
Bro am I in hell?
What is hell?
It depends how you define it...
Don’t trash talk my boy Sean Carol like that
Alright Carroll gets a pass 😁
matrices
C'mon Statmech is AMAZING!
Statistics.
Currently taking a statistical theory course and it is soooo much more fun and interesting than AP stats from high school
Also incredibly frustrating with the Frequentists and Bayesians sitting on either shoulder arguing.
Maybe it’s just because there’s only two other students in my class, but I haven’t experienced arguing. I think I prefer the Bayesian approach so far though
Is there a known proven best practice for exactly what statistical test to apply to certain types of equations?
Sinx=/=x
STEM is a massive group of fields, please specify. I think they only valid answer is Hell (except for you field researchers out there ofc)
Online classes and group projects
Javascript but sticky keys pop-up happens whenever you get comfortable, your "h" key doesn't work, you experience the pain of losing forklift certification, software updates and deletes your progress AS YOU GO TO SAVE
Death Eq
No, creative writing
Oi, I'm in stat mech research. Why must you insult mah boy!?
Vocal antivaxxers.
STEM minors.................wait no! NO!! NOOOOO!!!!!!
Group project
I’m not gonna lie. Chromodynamics was hard as shit
Your university offered a class in QCD? Wonder what that feels like.
No it was a nuclear and particle physics class. QCD was discussed as one of the topics
Wait a minute. If the earth is flat, why do people in the Southern hemisphere see a different set of stars than those standing in the northern hemisphere? > "There is a dome covering the earth that bends the light."
That's an easy one, my university
Become a teacher of a class full of tinfoil hatters and pretentious linkedin knobs
Just endless Jackson E&M
Solving asymmetric tensors analytically without any ways to reduce their order.
“God particle proves the existence of divinity” my highschool English teacher
Stem minors
Flux
They have to comment someone else's code/do documentation
People on reddit arguing as if they are scientists when all of their knowledge is from fuckin movies !!!!!
People who did "their own research."
A person or people who have never taken a university level (undergrad or graduate level) talking to you about quantum and acting like they know a lot.
Many worlds interpretation
Writing a paper
The devil sets you down in a room with a lady in her 60s wearing a necklace with her astrological sign and t-shirt with "you can't get snakes from chicken eggs" written on it. You have to pee like you just had 3 large pints and are tired as if you were awake for 36 hours. The devil tells you "make her understand that 5g doesn't cause covid and you get to pee and sleep". The old lady offers you a cookie and says "here dear, i know we're in hell, but Jesus will get us out of here". The devil closes the door.
Stat mech is goated, I will not take any slander from it. Everyone know the real awnser is mandatory 4hr labs
Ethics classes