Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #71 :marseyreading:

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

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@Murdervann :marseypin2: pls

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Dude Germans have lead the world in modern science. Imagine all the famous names of nuclear physicists and all that.

Also -- Merkel actually did something smart?

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Also -- Merkel actually did something smart?

https://np.reddit.com/r/de/comments/5zzkhr/ein_treffen_auf_augenh%C3%B6he/df2dcay/

Examination of the mechanism of decays with singular bond breaking and calculation of their coefficient of reaction rate on the basis of quantum mechanical and statistical methods

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ya v smort

I took thru PDEs and Quantum but today I could probably do like 5 pages of homework from Calc 1

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Chem Engineers take 2 semesters of Thermodynamics and 3-4 semesters of Transport Phenomena only to end up filling excel sheets.

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Oh like 3D heat equations and that stuff.

My PDE final exam was 2 questions, 2 hours to finish. 10 pages of scribbles. Got both the answers wrong. Got a B on it. I was only a little bit r-slurred.

Just sell out and manage stuff and impress people that you know how to solve for the slope of xΒ²

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Oh like 3D heat equations and that stuff.

Sort of, momentum, mass and heat transfer.

Just sell out and manage stuff and impress people that you know how to solve for the slope of xΒ²

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!engineering reminder that your work will consist mostly of excel sheets, CAD and writing reports no matter how many courses you took on thermodynamics, transport phenomena, geotech and electromagnetism, and !mathematics reminder that unless you become an academic-cel you're not going to use real analysis or anything proof based ever again. :marseyserioushatfact:

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reminder that unless you become an academic-cel you're not going to use real analysis or anything proof based ever again. :marseyserioushatfact:

Applies for codecels and probably most of the degreecels, too

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Bist du ein codecel?

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I think the only mathematics I needed was just applied statistics and some Linear Algebra

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Oh don't worry, when you sell out, your worksheets merely shift in topic. I'll give an example after I ramble.

Those !engineering skills are quite useful, but an amount of "converting to human" is required. There exist a few jobs where you're neurodivergent enough to speak to the nerds, and normie enough to speak to the bizchads, and act and a translator.

This does require that you have to push the nerds to provide you with their full analyses PLUS a high-level summary of the data that go into your own equation.

You may have to oversee and actions and interactions of more than one engineering firm, their material streams, market fluctuations, shipping, and then risks and uncertainties.

Naturally risk is translated into schedule and cost variance.

Also you need to capture production attrition, e.g. the percent of units produced which pass QAQC

You need to get their projections about production output capability, worker certifications, facility maintenance schedules, etc.

Then you roll up all that shit into a Monte Carlo randomizer and generate S-curves for cost versus probability.

Try to sell the boss on the 80P.

!engineering !mathematics !ifrickinglovescience I'd rather play lead guitar for AC/DC but this is ok too

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keep yourself safe

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At my last job we encountered a real math problem that needed actual theory to solve. I have a MMath (in CS) and my team lead is a super smart dude who studied math at MIT way back when.

We looked at it for like half a day and decided to just simulate it because it wasn't worth the effort. Then he asked his friend who's a math professor if she had any insights and she said "just simulate it".

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Most masters and phds do years of post grad to send emails and edit excel sheets.

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I don't like her, but she was the ultimate "Good weather" politician until the problems began to pile up

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I meant the surprising amount of chud scientists, especially in chemistry.

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It's not chemists specifically, it's just that Germany was where chemistry was happening for a long time, and lots of Germans are chuds

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The Germans are such chuds that they accidentally invented nerve agents. They were trying to find ways to kill bugs and accidentally found ways to kill people. It's their destiny.

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I thought we were investigating ways to kill insects

Well, you were technically right

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