• spicy pancake
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    85 hours ago

    just because i learned to do math doesn’t mean I’m not still afraid of it 😭

  • @[email protected]
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    289 hours ago

    molecular biologists rolling their eyes

    And on a more serious note, considering how much of science is doing admin, attempting to get grants, and data science, almost every scientist is very, intimately familiar with maths.

    • @[email protected]
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      148 hours ago

      data science

      Oh god, just imagining having to tweak the spectroscopy algorithms again in R has me whimpering.

  • FuglyDuck
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    3410 hours ago

    math is pervasive and inevitable.

    the only people that can escape it in their professional lives are republican politicians.

    • @idiomaddict
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      136 hours ago

      I like math quite a lot, but I don’t really use it in my job as a language teacher. I guess there’s a small amount of addition and division in grading, but there are also programs that automatically do that for you.

      • FuglyDuck
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        26 hours ago

        Gotta count heads for attendance, too.

        Also time.

        • @idiomaddict
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          63 hours ago

          Nah, I teach adult immigrants, so if they don’t show up, that’s their business. As for time, I don’t know that I really consider that math.

          Either way, counting and time are two things that republicans politicians also have to do, tallying up the votes in congress and figuring out exactly how long they can draw that process out. At some point, I suspect they’ll give up vote tallying, but we’re not there quite yet.