It really depends on your field. I’m doing my master’s thesis in HPC, and there, clever programming is really worth it.
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Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.deto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machineEnglish2·3 days agoIt’s not an electromagnet, it’s a superconducting magnet. And turning it immediately off makes it melt.
Also related, I had a psychology teacher with a PhD in psychology. But because in German schools, you need to teach two subjects (with the exception of the arts), he also taught physics. He was a terrible physics teacher, but a pretty good psychology one.
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.deto Science Memes@mander.xyz•UwU brat mathematician behaviorEnglish2·10 days agoI do understand it differently, but I don’t think I misunderstood. I think what they meant is the physicist notation I’m (as a physicist) all too familiar with:
∫ f(x) dx = ∫ dx f(x)
In this case, because f(x) is the operand and ∫ dx the operator, it’s still uniquely defined.
That reminds me of a story my bachelor’s supervisor in astrophysics told me: One of his best PhDs applied at an insurance company. They got an Excel sheet with data that they had 1 week to analyze. All the other applicants took the whole week. He just put it in Python, solved it in a few hours, and got the job.
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.deto Science Memes@mander.xyz•UwU brat mathematician behaviorEnglish2·10 days agoI’d say the $\int dx$ is the operator and the integrand is the operand.
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.deto Science Memes@mander.xyz•UwU brat mathematician behaviorEnglish1·10 days agoI think you mean operator. The operand is the target of an operator.
If they’re really, really good.
Here in Munich, our public transport is much better than any American city, but I still hate taking the train in summer. AC either does not exist or is far too weak. Taking the car takes 40, maybe 50 minutes, the train 1h25min. I still take the train, mind you, but it’s so much more exhausting than the car…
I have to mention my daily commute is between two cities outside Munich.
Honestly, also the latter. If you are using hundreds of thousands of cores for over 100h, every single second counts.