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Really nice! When I was in college we had all sorts of online systems that automatically graded assignments based on how close to the correct answer your suppli

by pontus 5y ago

Really nice! When I was in college we had all sorts of online systems that automatically graded assignments based on how close to the correct answer your supplied answer was. I think it'd be nice if in the future there was more of an overlap between science classes and programming classes (almost like a freshman / junior level scientific computation class) where instead of approaching problems from a pure theoretical perspective, we involved these types of computational approaches in parallel. Personally I have found that while I often know how to perform various theoretical computations, it's faster for me to just throw together a quick script to approximate the result (e.g. what's the expected value of the product of two gaussians?)

carldaddy 5y ago
I agree. I wish school would have merged things like space and programming. I would have been really into it.
PolarizedPoutin 5y ago
I agree 100%. It seems that almost any real-world science problem these days requires a computational solution/approach at some level. Taking a computational approach in parallel would be super useful.
- truth_ 5y ago
  Just like the "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", there exists a "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics". I think you might enjoy it. Visit- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Classical_Mechanics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation...
  - sritchie 5y ago
    Or give the exercises a try in the browser, using the Clojure(script) port! It’s a lovely book. https://nextjournal.com/dashboard/sicm https://nextjournal.com/dashboard/sicm
    - PolarizedPoutin 5y ago
      I'm seeing a "404 Not Found" when I visit (after logging into NextJournal).
  - PolarizedPoutin 5y ago
    Very cool! Didn't know there was a classical mechanics counterpart to SICM. Could inspire some new problems for the website.
OkayPhysicist 5y ago
This was sort of how physics classes at my alma mater worked. Especially at the upper-division level, it was pretty much expected that you would be submitted a Mathematica notebook with all your homework/tests/labs
- sitkack 5y ago
  It would be so wonderful if Mathematica was a public good.

by pontus 5y ago

carldaddy 5y ago

I agree. I wish school would have merged things like space and programming. I would have been really into it.

PolarizedPoutin 5y ago

I agree 100%. It seems that almost any real-world science problem these days requires a computational solution/approach at some level. Taking a computational approach in parallel would be super useful.

truth_ 5y ago
Just like the "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", there exists a "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics". I think you might enjoy it. Visit- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Classical_Mechanics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation...
- sritchie 5y ago
  Or give the exercises a try in the browser, using the Clojure(script) port! It’s a lovely book. https://nextjournal.com/dashboard/sicm https://nextjournal.com/dashboard/sicm
  - PolarizedPoutin 5y ago
    I'm seeing a "404 Not Found" when I visit (after logging into NextJournal).
- PolarizedPoutin 5y ago
  Very cool! Didn't know there was a classical mechanics counterpart to SICM. Could inspire some new problems for the website.

OkayPhysicist 5y ago

This was sort of how physics classes at my alma mater worked. Especially at the upper-division level, it was pretty much expected that you would be submitted a Mathematica notebook with all your homework/tests/labs

sitkack 5y ago
It would be so wonderful if Mathematica was a public good.