Inspired by a recent 196 post
Pfffft….
Amateurs!
Big guy with a club:
Ah, the illusive
I see someone finally embraced the fact that C++ templates are Turing-complete and you don’t really need much of the rest.
Some people thought too much if they could, and not enough if they should.
/j 😁
That book looks as old as the language itself
Template metaprogramming (with the variadic function) is like from the late seventies IIRC… Older than C++!
Well, people might argue about the definition but the idea has been around some fair time …
For anyone who doesn’t know, this is what linear algebra looks like
I solved it. Answer hotdog
Is this how Costco keeps their hotdog combo so cheap?
That and the threat of the CEO going full Patrick Bateman on the board.
you got to use numbers? i’m so jealous. we had to use matrices of variables when i learned it
One time at work I was trying to work out a least-squares fit using linear algebra.
I have no background knowledge in linesr algebra, it felt like drawing a pentagram on the floor and chanting in backwards Latin.
That’s not a fair example, I know what linear algebra is but can’t tell what’s going on.
Change of basis would be my guess, but that’s pretty basic.
You could’ve provided something far worse, like a manual construction of the Jordan normal form of a large matrix.
It’s been more than a handful of years since I had to learn linear algebra so I am very out of practice, and this was the first image that I saw that made me go, “yeah, that looks about right.” I thought I should include some image since I have told people during college that I was in a linear algebra class and several had the same response of, “Really? I learned algebra in high school. Weren’t you in calculas last semester?”
EZ
You’ve officially lost it.
I’ve never had it
Thats not too bad. It just takes up a lot of space. Good thing I do my maths on an android tablet
I am a freak who really enjoys linear algebra. It’s actually quite heartening to discover that even amongst my friend group of weirdos, there are still freaks
I see your linear algebra and raise you nonlinear acoustics: boom!
I’m going all-in on transonic fluid dynamics. All the joy of nonlinear acoustics, with a little navier stokes as a treat.
I noped the fuck out of that course. I’m sure it’s super interesting and rewarding, but I just couldn’t take it mentally at the time.
Oh, The Kittel… one does not survive ethically to solid state physics
My dad’s grade 4 teacher used to clobber him real good with a Bible whenever he did normal kid stuff, the Bible can definitely make you cry.
Depends on how sharp the
wordsedges are
Ew Java
I remember algebra. x = 2 and all that jazz. Letters and numbers mixed all willy-nilly. Surely the “commutative” part can’t make it much worse.
Flowers for Algernon
Where the Red Fern Grows
This book…I read the whole thing, did most of the problems, and still don’t know a thing about abstract algebra.
Project Hail Mary legitimately made me cry there towards the end. I watched the movie afterwards and it wasn’t nearly as impactful (and I have opinions about the movie, even tho it was decently good), but the book just kicked me in the chest.
Everybody giving all these first year engineering books. Real engineers cry when they’re doing their CCNA certification.
I actually did study for the CCNA and was primed to certify. I decided not to go that route and found myself in a Java class a couple years later. I now don’t use either of those things.
That isn’t real engineering, sorry.
Do your CCIE and come back to me.
And for what it’s worth, I did my BSc.Eng in Electrical too.
You’re not much of an engineer if you can’t see how fallacious your argument is.
Memorizing endless arcane trivia that changes every six months is a parlor trick, not engineering.
The same way memorizing all the SCPI commands of your oscilloscope doesn’t make you an engineer.
Why are you gate keeping people on the internet?
In a shitposting community no less.
But posting shit like this does make you a twat.
you suck, go shave your neck beard.
That’s actually one of the reasons I didn’t like it. It focuses almost entirely on Cisco router/switch/whatever else setup and gives only minimal background on the actual theory behind networking. That wouldn’t be so bad if this wasn’t the extent of my engineering undergrad experience with networking. We didn’t even technically get the certification because apparently netacad doesn’t count despite being the same content
Lessons in chemistry
I have that book on my bookshelf. It didn’t make me cry nearly as much as some C++ books.
Isn’t it weird the a lot of internal and third party documentation and books of older windows system are the opposite of this
Finished compsci but interned as a computer technician and there I thrived. Instead of constantly having to keep up to date on programming: subscribing to journals, attending seminars and conferences, networking with other programmers, and of course (re)studying shit to get certified.
That sounds like my time as a computer technician and then a network tech. Always chasing the next cert to stand out from the next tech. Once I switched to compsci I’ve never been pitched any certifications.
