Computer programming books ... Lol we don't print them any more, they'd be obsolete before hitting the shelves.
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Do be fair, that's less because the fundamentals behind programming are changing and more because the specific implementations are changed all the damn time.
Yep, I got that "introduction to algorithms" (1100 pages tightly written, love it) and it still holds up ofc. I should have stayed in uni...
Programming: that book was printed a month ago, and it's already obsolete.
Newspapers printed yesterday are already in the bin.
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Mathematics ^teacher^: That textbook was written thousands of years ago, and it is still as useful and relevant as ever, but I want you to buy this one I co-authored instead for the mere sum of $120, otherwise you won't pass.
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As a kid I thought Pythagoras was silly for making a math cult. Now that I'm older I get it.
That's an interesting angle on it, can you say more? Sorry to be obtuse.
Well Pythagoras lived during the Greek era. Buildings like the Temple of Artemis were the greatest projections of power and grandeur the world had to offer at the time. Those great structures would've dwarfed anything seen out in the country. The only way those buildings could ever be erected is with the help of mathematics.
Furthermore mathematical truths are about as true as anything can be in the world. A triangle's angles are always perfectly in harmony for instance. Way back when, when the world was much darker and more chaotic, those mathematical truths must've seemed like a great light in the darkness.
Mathematics is applicable truth.
Oh that book is outdated. That's the second edition, you need the third addition to complete the one math problem I am basing your entire grade on for the course.
"Why yes I do happen to also be the author of the textbook for this course, why do you ask?"
Wrong for physics. Models to describe reality don't magically become wrong just because a model with better predictive power is discovered. Most old models are special cases of newer ones.
Yeah, Newton wasn't just a science bitch who is wrong, sometimes. His equations are the special case of General Relativity when acceleration is very low. Which is the world we live in.
Science is validated by the new information replacing the old. Al-Khwarizmi worked out numbers so we don’t have to,
My favorite way to connect people with academia is pointing out how recently zero was invented because even the most reluctant “I don’t know math” person understands zero these days.
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Reality: The universe was spontaneously created last thursday and there is no way for you to disprove it.
Nah mate, it was already in existence by last Tuesday afternoon and there is no way for you to disprove it.
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This was made by someone who doesn't understand any of it.
The really funny part is the other two are also just math.
The fabric of reality is woven from math, and that's beautiful.
I've got a pet theory that a hypothetical alien species' music would be more recognizably similar to humans' than their biology would.
This could make the plot of a great sci-fi book. Love the idea.
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Easy as
I/II= ,V
(OK, that was confusing, it's I/II= .V in barbaric` )
There's a whole bit in The Incredibles about how math has changed since Bob was in school
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You could make the same argument for things like mathematics before the discovery about imaginary numbers.
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The correct way to learn math is chronologically
Wrong. Good look fooling around without algebra for years. New methods make old maths easy.
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Weird flex
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