/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8495371

But the current models strike me as pretty damn clumsy... Shit, using something like probability densities to try an explain the distribution of a theoretical negative charge? Fucking wave-particle duality? Broad incompatibility between small-scale models and macro-scale models?

So sure, coincidentally a few of these models happened to work and allowed us to build a fucking iPhone, but there hasn't been any new paradigm of understanding proposed since the 1920s...

Why is it so difficult to accept that we have arrived at a limit?

Just like your dog will never learn calculus, humans may never develop an understanding deeper than what we already have.

>>7974468
>If, in fact, P != NP, it's very likely that there problems out there that you can't generate a proof for in sub-exponential time, and therefore, as time continues, we'll asymptotically reach a point where all of the questions that can be answered are answered, leaving us with only the questions that can't be answered in an amount of time feasible to humans.
>If P = NP, that means you're just a little bitch because you can't figure it out.

Fucking best way I've ever heard the implications of this problem explained. topkek

>>7388405
It's great in college cause it's pretty hand in hand with what your text books teach

Real world, I don't kno anyone who uses it.
As an engineer I use excel (not just making spreadsheets. You can use this thing to build mini programs that do your work for you)
My buddies prefer java or C+ of some variety for their little programs.
I just like excel cause it came free on my work computer. I'm a mechanical engineer so we only took one or two classes on programming. Most of what I kno is self taught tbh.

Protip: If you say Edison was a terrible asshole and then you turn around and praise Isaac Newton for the wonderful things he's done for society, you've been mind controlled by the Oatmeal.