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This is why I love statistics. You can dabble with integrals and functions and all the fancy math tools and still end up with something useful to say about the
by curiousgal 7y ago
This is why I love statistics. You can dabble with integrals and functions and all the fancy math tools and still end up with something useful to say about the real world.
- SkyMarshal 7y agoFwiw I think all of math has something useful to say about the real world, it's just that some of it takes decades or more for us to figure out what that is. Like, the E8 Lie Group probably contains the secret to manmade wormholes, faster-than-light travel, and manipulating higher dimensional space, but we won't know it for hundreds of years. (or at least until we invent AGI). Something like that.
- mruts 7y agoI used to think that statistics was “dirty” math in college, but now it’s my favorite. It’s so easy to ask interesting off the cuff questions. And when you actually have the tools to begin to work on these questions, it becomes exhilirating!