/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4494603
five decimal places MIGHT be the limit for single precision floating point. i'd expect 6 to 8 digits though.

more likely he's learning that the precision only increases with the square root of the samples taken, and he's going to need to simulate a fuckton more points.

I'm going to have to go with the computer. The fact that there were these devices that could do all these magical things drove me to try and learn everything I could about how they worked and how I could make them do all these things as well.

Sure you can, for certain subjects like maths, provided you have ridiculous self motivation. Even then it will probably take you three times as long.

Bottom line is, at Uni you are surrounded by people who have done it all before, and therefore know the best ways to instill knowledge in the minimum amount of time.

If your doing something like architecture, forget it. You end up learning more from the various ideas of your peers than from your teachers. You need to see how ideas grow and develop over time, which ones work out, which ones flop, who likes what ideas, how to speak in front of people, how to convey different concepts to different people.

Not to bag on self learning, but the HURR THEY JUS WAN OUR JEW GOLD mentality is for the most part exaggerated.

It tends to be more true in america particularly for things like graphic design because you fags have turned education into a pure money making endeavor which encourages degree mills.