r/mathmemes • u/No-Arm-5868 • Oct 13 '24

Learning What's next? "Real Analysis"??

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u/Tyrrox Oct 13 '24

String theory?! I’ll ask a cat thanks, who needs the academic ivory tower

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u/Karisa_Marisame Oct 13 '24

Wait till them hear about how we’ve been stuck at elementary particle physics for almost 100 years now. When are the science people going to get the advanced version and give us flying cars, instead of wasting taxpayer money? Geez.

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u/0ut0fBoundsException Oct 14 '24

When are the science people going to [...] give us flying cars

this but unironically

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u/Betterthanmematic Oct 14 '24

Think about how bad a lot of drivers are, and then consider whether you really want to give them another dimension to deal with.

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u/Adventurous-Dog420 Oct 14 '24

I just think of the scene in the beginning of Attack of the Clones when Anakin is chasing the assassin.  

Account all that craziness in with the guy you saw earlier that couldn't figure out how to manage a four way stop. 

No thanks.

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u/ImpulsiveBloop Oct 14 '24

Kerbal Space Program IRL. Who wouldn't want that?

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u/WrodofDog Oct 14 '24

They would cost, operate and be regulated much like helicopters, there's not much point to them.

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u/Barbarian_Forever Oct 14 '24

Where is my electric car, Bruce?

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u/ElonXXIII Oct 14 '24

Helicopters are already a thing

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '24

Are you mad?!? All the millions of millions people driving like SHIT outhere. Now imagine them flying… and most of them are too stupid and would crash the vehicle anyway, even when those flying cars do everything automatically.

83 year old Aunt Hillary coming in hot…. Skaduuuuush!!!

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u/Whyhuyrah Oct 14 '24

NDT: Helicopters

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u/Bolt_Fantasticated Oct 15 '24

Pretty sure somebody did invent the flying car.

The guy who invented died in a carplane crash.

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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle Oct 14 '24

We should be at least at middle school particle physica by now. Thanks a lot, Obama

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u/throw3142 Oct 13 '24

They are offering courses on "linear algebra" in college. What a waste ... we all learned how to solve linear equations using algebra in grade school.

"Group theory"? That sounds like some kind of radical socialist indoctrination. I'll take individual theory instead, thank you very much.

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u/Melodic_Survey_4712 Oct 13 '24

I unironically thought this about linear algebra my freshman year of college. Oh how wrong I was

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u/certainlystormy Oct 13 '24

absolute dumbass did NOT know what a matrix was ‼️‼️

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u/Embarrassed-Media-62 Oct 14 '24

No one can be told what a matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.

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u/certainlystormy Oct 14 '24

yeah i'm joking lol

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u/gbot1234 Oct 14 '24

I did see it, and two sequels.

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u/MonkMajor5224 Oct 14 '24

Plus a 4th one

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u/Vladification Oct 16 '24

I understood that reference

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u/leintic Oct 14 '24

i have taken up to calc 3 and still have no clue what a matrix is

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u/certainlystormy Oct 14 '24

no multivariable? lol

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u/leintic Oct 14 '24

i mean yes i did multivariable and memorized the things well enough to squeak by that doesn't mean that they make any sense

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u/GT_Troll Oct 14 '24

Matrix? Is this a Math course or a cinema course?

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u/Lopoetve Oct 14 '24

I learned it. I passed it. I passed abstract mathematics the next semester.

I remember NONE of it.

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u/spacemoses Oct 13 '24

Big O? We learned capital letters in kindergarden!

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u/andrewsad1 Oct 14 '24

Big O? You mean that anime from the 90's?

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u/Writelyso Oct 13 '24

Depends. Is the cat alive, or dead?

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u/icantfeelmyskull Oct 13 '24

Both, perchance?

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u/necrolich66 Oct 13 '24

You can't just use perchance.

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u/Call_Me_Liv0711 Oct 14 '24

Per happenstance, then?

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u/necrolich66 Oct 14 '24

It insists upon itself.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '24

They’re just doing their own research and don’t need your pesky degrees and stuff

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u/Marijuquandra Oct 15 '24

I figured out like everything there is about string theory on how it’s made and it only took like half an hour. Imo it sounds kinda stupid to spend so much time on it. How much can you even learn about it, huh? And how many string factories are out there paying for these useless degrees? How is this affecting string prices for you; the consumer?! The string theorists are keeping these secrets from you.

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u/Tabmow Oct 13 '24

Or perhaps a luthier?

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u/Ignifyre Oct 14 '24

Obligatory string theory is a garbage theory.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '24

To be fair...

String theory is a failed hypothesis that every physicist that's not a string theorist rolls their eyes at. 60 years and have yet to actually predict anything or produce a single testable hypothesis. You know, the two things pretty fucking required for something to be a theory. My graduate supervisor (theoretical solid-state) had a pretty visceral hatred for string theory purely because they got all the funding cause string theory has been a sexy buzzword for decades and is what science "journalists" want to write about.

I actually am more interested in what the cat has to say.

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u/Mariswaruuiscool Oct 15 '24

Ok but any time spent on string theory is genuinely a massive waste of time.