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To get my Mech/Aero Engineering degree I had to take all the way up to Calc 5. The only undergrad engineering degree that hand to go that high. :( It raped my mind.
See, I can at least sort of understand that. You use math in Engineering! I'm sure that amount was excessive and was meant mainly as a way to weed people out, but there's at least a little logic behind it. I've yet to do any coding that required me to calculate the surface area of an object that can't exist in this dimension. Most CS departments are a bit too obsessed with training their students to be "Computer Scientist". |
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Ingmar
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I think a lot of that might be hanging around from the days when a CS degree and an EE degree were the same thing maybe.
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Morat20
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Maybe. Some of it's because "CS" degrees often wander into weird areas. You need bits and pieces of Cal II and III if you're doing actual hardware design, for one.
Secondly, while a lot of it's hidden in toolkits and such, you need through Cal III and linear algebra if you want to do serious graphics stuff. (If you're building the engines or doing low-level stuff, at least).
I've never had to use anything more complicated than differential equations myself, and that was only the once and the technique I used I got from a numerical methods class, not my Diffy-Q class.
OTOH, the other 'big project' our department does is a really flexible GUI for handling, displaying, and manipulating streaming, high-rate, real-time data. Since engineers use it, there's a call for doing some fairly complex math operations on it, although I don't think we go any further than offering derivatives and crude integrals. (Not even symbolic -- they're literally looking for slope changes and areas under a curve, so we use the standard "We can iterate a million times" methods for handling it).
Then again, in my experience, CS degrees are there to expose CS students to a wide array of information, with the view that it won't prepare them perfectly for any particular job, but will at least give them the basics of the field. A given CS major might be doing anything from web systems to relativistic clock algorithms for satellites to graphics engines. It takes a bit of a scattershot approach to give them educational basics in that.
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I've taken to Page 1 and starting over. It's the only way.
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This thread. Why is this funny? |
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This thread. Why is this funny? Well now it is. Thanks. |
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It's not, that's the point. It's the human picture equivalent of the sad panda emote.
I.e. too much discussion, not enough funny pictures.
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bhodi
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If I was allowed, I'd make this thread REQUIRE a picture after every post, or you get a 3 day vacation.
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NiX
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If I was allowed, I'd make this thread REQUIRE a picture after every post, or you get a 3 day vacation.
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Morat20
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If I was allowed, I'd make this thread REQUIRE a picture after every post, or you get a 3 day vacation.
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Dropbox is free, and I've never had any issues with malware from using them. At least not that I've noticed.
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You sorta ruined your own joke there. It was funny till you said 'NYC'. Then its like,"well, duh".
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bhodi
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I can't ever find a hosting site that doesn't make me suspect malware is lurking nearby.
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NiX
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HOAs!
Time to move to the Great White North. I've never heard of an HOA up here or at least anything that would turn a once great man into a husk of EVIL. |
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Well, who owns and pays the tax on that piece of land that the builder could not put a house on?
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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I used to write for extinct gaming sites
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Yegolev
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Post some funny pictures. Personally, I have lost hope for this thread.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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I used to write for extinct gaming sites
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01101010
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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 So negative lately. Why for? HOAs!  |
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Teleku
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
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Faith restored!
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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LK
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Damn Leo makes the best facial expressions.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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I rememeber thinking his career wasn't going anywhere after Romeo & Juiliet.
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nice blank link there, hoss
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01101010
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Stupid Internets! *kicks it*
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