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Yeah, there was a similar comment from one of my greybeard coworkers. That one of the biggest changes he had to get over as engineering moved on over the years
by monocasa 6y ago
Yeah, there was a similar comment from one of my greybeard coworkers. That one of the biggest changes he had to get over as engineering moved on over the years was the gradual shift from very symbolic, human friendly (one might say 'elegant') mathematics into more brute force, pure crunching techniques.
- ur-whale 6y ago> was the gradual shift from very symbolic, human friendly (one might say 'elegant') mathematics into more brute force, pure crunching techniques. Conversely, in these days when anyone can go buy themselves a couple of teraflops at the shop round the corner, when you look at the way they solved problems back in day it feels very strange. But then, they didn't have a choice of course. However, when you look at modern physics courses (worst offender IMO is standard quantum mechanics courses), where huge swaths of times are expanded trying to find closed form solutions to Schrödinger's equation, it feels very bizarre (and a giant waste of time).
- selimthegrim 6y agoJust the other day I used variational techniques to show the bound on a Mott transition in terms of electron density to an undergrad who had been complaining to me that they "hadn't learned any of this stuff in class just Dirac notation"