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If you focused on math, you'd be regretting wasting too much time on insignificant yet (intentionally) convoluted parts of math and feel you wasted a few years
by bitL 7y ago
If you focused on math, you'd be regretting wasting too much time on insignificant yet (intentionally) convoluted parts of math and feel you wasted a few years of your life. Just accept you can't know everything and that it's in your own best interest to work with other people to achieve your dreams and help them to achieve theirs.
- bigred100 7y agoMath things that you think are convoluted (at least as you’ll find in refined undergraduate/graduate material) usually have a very good reason for being that way in my experience...
- bitL 7y agoDunno, I spent (wasted) 3 years of my life studying theoretical computer science at PhD level including very advanced parts of (discrete) math and many of those parts are just unnecessarily obfuscated to enable academic careers and an academic version of "demonstrating one's worthiness". There are not many cases of a worse feeling than when you realize after a year and half of difficult studies that the problem was either simple and obfuscated, or that the set of instances satisfying some theory is empty.