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I usually just laugh at them and change the conversation because I dont really want to talk about it. I absolutely know that Im better than my friends in engineering, and when it comes to my friends in computer science its like Im a different species than them. But the thing is, I feel a bit insecure when it comes to my pure math friends. Thankfully many of them tell me how difficult quantum mechanics sounds which makes me feel a little better. But I just am not sure if I am actually better than them. I dont know how hard pure math is compared to physics and so I dont really know how to treat my friends in math. So what do you guys think?

>> No.12462261

>>12462254
ima be honest i don't actually think you have friends

>> No.12462332

>>12462261
No I do. I just need to know which is harder

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>>12462254
Desperately trying to be better than "your friends" sounds like a horrible motivation.

Anyway, it's hard to quantify how hard something is since in cutting edge research, you essentially by definition have a low chance of being the one making progress. Achievement is always relative to your competitors. Is chess harder or throwing a coin into a glass from far away? Well in either discipline you'll compete against people who do that thing 8 hours a day in competitive training, so either is extremely hard. So we're left with not with how easy it is to make progress, but kinda how many people would manage to get good to a certain degree: You set a goal and harder means a smaller fraction of people even get there. But then it's difficult to find statistical data on disciplines. Because to be on a certain level on topos theory or niche semiconductor physics needs a certain person with a certain interest, it's not something everybody is equally likely to enjoy and persure.

>> No.12462384

>>12462353
yadayadayada
pick one

>> No.12462659

>>12462254
is this the new pasta of the week?

fwiw my friends in pmath think qm is a joke, trivially derived by just constructing probability using the L2 norm instead of L1 (or something along those lines. I was linked a pdf of some pmath schizo deriving qm but didn't actually read it).

>> No.12462669

>>12462254
Eternally btfo them by making fun of their use of "real numbers".

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>>12462254
Humanities is more difficult than physics, math or cs combined. Not up for debate.

>> No.12463241

>>12463143
spewing bullshit is not hard, it just takes charisma