Rosemary @Rosemary@awoo.space
Headmate to @Felthry, still figuring out how things are after a long absence.
Twenty-something feminine-leaning androgynous arcaninetales taur usually with two heads. Interests in puzzles, engineering, and a good book, and curling up with a good friend.
Pronouns... zhe/zhir for now, but that might change in future.
Rosemary#3888 on Discord. Talk to me here before adding, please!
Time: UTC-6
Joined Jan 2018
@InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space We've never read any of those. Either way, we've learned something today!
@InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space What was it used for before? Fashion?
@InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space What sort of slang terms are you thinking of? I'm curious to hear examples.
Good morning, all. I hope the day finds you well.
@daylight Basically what I'm saying is that the explanations for why the statistics work always felt either too much of a handwave or completely incomprehensible to us, but the explanations for why calculus works were easy to follow and made intuitive sense. That'll probably be different for different people, of course! And some people may not even care about why it works; we're probably unusual in that we can't really learn things without understanding why things are that way.
@daylight We disliked it because we could never understand the derivations, I think. With calculus and differential equations, the derivations are straightforward and make sense to us in a way that statistics never did. What wasn't precise felt hand-wave-y, and what was precise felt too complicated to follow.
@daylight You'll probably need some of both, then. Statistics is actually the one field of mathematics we've not enjoyed at all, honestly!
@daylight That depends on what subfield you go into, too. If you look at population dynamics, there's going to be a significant amount of relatively simple differential equations in there, but if you're doing behavioral studies there would be much less math involved, mostly statistics.
@daylight Well, you'll probably need some calculus for making the graphs, but it shouldn't be too complicated calculus. Just a few differential equations.
@daylight Then you don't need to do calculus!
@daylight Yeah, I agree on that point. It's calculus and beyond where things start to get interesting.
@daylight I hope this doesn't come off as condescending, I just realized that it could! That wasn't my intention, I assure you.
@daylight We've always been of the opinion that everyone likes math, and those who don't simply haven't found the math that they like yet. There's more to math than arithmetic.
@daylight It's enjoyable and lets you learn things!
@daylight I think that would imply the total collapse of capitalism so... good!
@kobi_lacroix Your designs are always so full of personality!
@ashiinu@snouts.online It's a good color to be surrounded by, after all.
@daylight I think he had the name before he was a prophet, though, right?
@daylight The prophet himself, one would think.
@Goldkin It wouldn't be hard now that we have the disassemblies.
Headmate to @Felthry, still figuring out how things are after a long absence.
Twenty-something feminine-leaning androgynous arcaninetales taur usually with two heads. Interests in puzzles, engineering, and a good book, and curling up with a good friend.
Pronouns... zhe/zhir for now, but that might change in future.
Rosemary#3888 on Discord. Talk to me here before adding, please!
Time: UTC-6
Joined Jan 2018
