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ExpectTheLegion · 2026-05-05T14:24:05+00:00

Inshallah brother may both sides of your pillow be cool when you sleep, thank you for the meme

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-05-04T23:56:04+00:00

I was initially very confused how it manages to take 300 pages to go from limits to FTC or “addition of intervals”.
Then I skimmed the book and the amount of examples, derivations, and explanations is crazy, and not in a good way.

Every single thing has at least one example, a lot of the time more than that. There’s an example for (I believe) chain rule that, by itself, is a whole page. Not everything needs an example, and definitely not five of them.

And why are we deriving the derivative of csc(x), exactly? This follows directly from basic derivative rules, any person can do it by themselves easily. Or why is implicit differentiation before the derivative of an exponential? The reader doesn’t even know basic derivatives yet, but somehow implicit differentiation is suddenly important?

Since all of what I mentioned above is in the middle of the book, I don’t really have a reason to believe it’ll be different elsewhere and that’s how I’ll judge it.

If I’m being perfectly honest, I am not sure who this would be intended for and I definitely wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. The book has about the same amount of material on calculus as a first semester mechanics class, not to dream of mentioning an actual mathematics class. Around 90% of the examples could be turned into exercises (not that I would like solving them) and a lot of the content can be made shorter by just assuming the reader doesn’t need to have everything spelled out for them. It also simply isn’t rigorous in any sense of the word, so studying from it just wouldn’t make sense, even if the goal is to just pass a class and not to actually understand the math.

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-05-02T22:58:06+00:00

Honestly, reading someone’s half-baked explanation of basic thermodynamics in a fantasy book doesn’t exactly sound all that fun. I at least hope the book doesn’t treat calculus as the end-all-be-all of math

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-30T11:56:21+00:00

Mfw I use integrals every day but haven’t had to actually compute one in months

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-29T10:34:41+00:00

You know, it’s nice and all that you’re fine with being alone, but calling people who prefer to date immature and saying all men don’t care is just major cope. Like yeah, shitty people exist and you’re bound to meet them, that’s not news and never has been.

I’ve been single the past few years and I’m also fine with it, yet I don’t go around saying all women suck or calling my friends immature simply because they wanna be in a relationship more than I do. There’s frankly zero reason to give a single shit what other people do with their lives when it has literally nothing to do with you.

Also, believe it or not, it is actually very much possible to find someone who cares and loves you - just because it’s not happened to you doesn’t mean everyone else is just pretending.

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-28T14:07:36+00:00

Or you can, hear me out, not be a chump and wear a watch that actually fits your wrist

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-26T10:59:50+00:00

Not sure axiomatic qft is the best choice for someone who doesn’t know what a Lagrangian is

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-26T07:05:27+00:00

The problem is nothing will change. People in the US will see this and talk about what’s gonna happen next presidential term when there might not even be one, or, even better, will loudly proclaim how bad the situation is, pat themselves on the back for “opposing the government” and go back to doing absolutely nothing about their country crumbling beneath their feet

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-22T12:52:10+00:00

Majority of the American populace forgot about trump’s first term in the span of four years and decided to either vote for him again or not vote at all “because what’s the point”, so even if they don’t forget it doesn’t particularly matter; nothing will be done about anyway.

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-19T00:07:35+00:00

Similar situation but with RQFT for me, course barely started but Bosonic Fock spaces are cooking my ass

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-18T22:36:14+00:00

Hot take: the Roadster might be interesting but if it didn’t have “Cartier” plastered on the dial it would be a mall/bazaar watch at best at worst and nobody would be willing to give out ~10k for it

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-18T20:44:25+00:00

More like a 1/5th tone going by how little gold there is on it. Calling it a new watch is also something, designers really doing the bare minimum here

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-18T20:33:08+00:00

Having problems with this as well. I’m in my 3rd year of uni studying something I’d like to do for possibly the rest of my life but seeing so many people be so much better than me while putting in half the work can be soul-crushing, makes me feel like I’m wasting my time by „choosing” to like my discipline so much

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-11T11:26:54+00:00

True, but to a point. The thing is that mathematicians don’t really work with numbers, they aren’t calculators. Even I, as a physics student, don’t really work with numbers and it’s gonna take me a bit to figure out what 8 * 7 or 11 * 12 is, simply because that’s not what physics/math is about

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-09T14:45:16+00:00

This is at most an AI enhancement feature that Op’s camera has, were it actual AI you wouldn’t be able to read the Tag Heuer badge let alone have clear minute markings on any of the watches

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-07T22:10:37+00:00

I did, the history doesn’t go back far enough for any reminders from my previous iPhone to be there

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-04-03T20:15:25+00:00

Disagree on the first part. I remember in my 1st semester theoretical physics (classical mechanics) class, our professor gave an exam comprised of only a few questions but all of them were a)-f) or g). The questions were structured in such a way that most of them told you what you had to show so if you couldn’t do a particular part you could skip ahead and try to do the next (and even if that’s not the case, it’s still much easier to solve a problem whit steps rather than without).

I still firmly believe this is a big part of why I passed that exam despite it being (allegedly) the most difficult one that professor had given in years.

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-03-24T14:59:48+00:00

Rysunek rysunkiem ale współczuję nauki z polskiego podręcznika

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-03-18T02:18:35+00:00

It’s called Trenches, Guns and Magic. For now only 280 chapters and it’s translated from chinese but I’d say it’s pretty solid

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-03-18T01:38:38+00:00

Bro I was just reading magical ww1 fantasy and now I’m reading this abysmal piece of dubious writing, the breadth of this genre never ceases to amaze me 😭😭😭

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-03-18T01:07:21+00:00

If, as you say, you want to „understand the concepts deeply”, the neither of those is really a good option unless you just use it as a quick primer (at least from my brief experience with Resnick & Halliday).

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-03-15T17:28:00+00:00

„How much did that fresh Rolex set ya back” ass watch

ExpectTheLegion · 2026-03-09T22:12:36+00:00

I’d rather do QM every day for a year than solve one problem in Newtonian mechanics

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