So many spreadsheets.
It’s amazing to be to see these memes where people seemingly declare that all applied mathematics is done by MBA flunkies in Excel. Just in the past year I’ve done cuda implementations to calculate the intersection of N cones, physics-based EM ray tracing, and fisher-information regularization.
Christ if there’s this population of physicists and mathematicians on here who are yearning for real DSP and numerical analysis jobs, then fucking hit those DMs because we cannot find you on Indeed.
Well I for one would be delighted to cross 35 years of software engineering with a maths hobby but I can hardly find anything.
The only place I did find declared that I didn’t have enough maths without even seeing me or saying what kind of maths I would need for the role. From the JD it didn’t sound too tricky: pathfinding for construction robots.
As an engineer, this hits close to home.
Engineers: So we had all this complicated theory, but no one can calculate that stuff by himself. Here’s a linear aproximation formula and 50 pages of tables where you just look up the values for the factors given certain conditions.
The complicated math is for the one guy who made the tables and charts. The rest of you just look it up. It’s fine, it’s how we’ve always done it. Even sending people to the Moon had lookup tables for precalculated things. Although those guys were legend, ever try to use a sliderule?
As another engineer, not at all 🤨
It guy, I have to fix spredsheets that are actually charts on word documents. I can not make them a spreadsheet as it is a miracle they got it that far and I must not break the finances.
Uhhhhhhhh wow. My sympathies.
I must not break the finances.
If they’re doing calculations in a table in word, then it’s already broken :)
Is this really the path of mathematicians? I would at least assume they’d learn matrixes and linear algebra, and at least dip their toes into one of the adjacent tangential maths like discrete maths.
On the “numbers and counting” part they crossed over 5 lines instead of 4, I am upset.
the best most classic excel video ever: You Suck at Excel by Joel Spolsky (Reupload)
Human kettlebell here, them squigglies shore is purdy!
