Comment on "waves of technological innovation" have gotten faster over time, "students might now find themselves learning skills in college that are obsolete by the time they graduate"

• Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I hear this all the time that there’s some profound mathematical concept that I had to go to college to learn … what exactly is that lesson? What math lessons have changed your life specifically?

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  • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly, if you have to ask, you’ll never know. You’re just not emotionally invested in the real world and if you were, you’d see the value of high-level math everywhere. But you don’t, and that’s entirely your fault. No one is going to inspire you for you.

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  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Calculus was a game changer. Combined with physics it completely changed my view of the world.

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    • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In what way?

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      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s hard to explain. Calculus was integral (hah!) to understanding a lot of physics and allowed me to understand better how we know about our world.

        For example - just being able to better understand the equations of motion was eye-opening. There were velocity and acceleration equations we’d learned previously but now I understood how we knew them. I could also now derive a function for change in acceleration (aka jerk)!

        Trig had a similar impact though that is taught at a high school level not college. The two combined are quite useful for programming things with motion.

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