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Is studying mathematics worth it?
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>>16560789
No, but you might want to anyway.
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>>16560795
why isn't it worth it
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>>16560807
Nta, br if you value your sanity, it wouldn't be worth it.
No offense to mathbros, but there are no sane mathematicians.
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>>16560809
i already have a couple screws loose
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>>16560817
No worries then.
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>>16560789
Depends on what you mean. At some point it becomes some odd mix of navel-gazing and objective truths of the universe. The big problem is that it's basically impossible to tease out what actually matters when you're down in the weeds.
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>>16560807
No jobs in it and you have to actually use your brain. Engineering has more jobs and you only need to know finite difference methods and some dumbed down physics, which you will likely never need for your day-to-day work
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Yes, you can use math to reverse engineer PageRank. With Trump in the white house, the corrupt dealings of the democrats with Google mean diddly squat, so Google is a sitting duck. All you have to do is expect that Google will do something anti-competitive and have a lawyer ready to sue them for $billions if they so much as move a muscle.
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>>16560830
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only if you are a genius
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>>16560837
AKA working for banks that typically only hire people from the ivy league. Unless you're thinking about trading on your own, which will likely lead to you losing all your money because you can't compete with everyone else who has more skills/computing resources than you
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so nobody here thinks studying mathematics is worthwhile? or if they do, the highest aspirations are to be a quant for a financial firm?
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>>16560929
you sound like a CCP shill
>please don't outsmart me, Americabro!
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>>16560855
Committing genocide against the Chinese is fun, but it isn't harmless. Chinks are smart, but they aren't free, and because money is math, studying math means using money to enslave the chinks and commit genocide against them. it's fun AND it feels good!
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>>16560960
huh
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>>16560855
Reason 3 is both a trvke and a blatant schizopost depending on how you look at it. No amount of ML wankery can lead to progress in pure mathematics. The problem, of course, is that the “system” as Ted put it only cares about applied math, which is indeed susceptible to ML bullshit.
t. friend in numerical analysis constantly complains how every prof is abandoning finesse and rigor for those juicy ML grants
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>>16560789
if its relevant to what you want to do, then yes
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>>16561035
why can't ML help progress pure mathematics.
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>>16560837
you have to be indian or asian to be hired as a quant and atleast have 2 phds from ivy league schools
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>>16562256
because proofs are original, rakesh. You can't train ml on them. A proof of one theorem doesn't tell you anything about how to prove another.
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>>16560789
What kind of maths? If you need it to do what you want to do, then yes of course. If you're talking about maths research, studying maths mostly just for fun, etc, then if you have to ask the answer is no.
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>>16560789
Fuck no lmao wtf
But my parents think I'm some kind of genius or something cause of the basic shit PDEs on my white board, so whatever. They think they're supporting a special little genius and as long as they think that instead of "anon should get a job" I'm living good if all I have to do is read some boring dry ass books about the next crazy PDE vibrating buttplug method.



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