This is no laughing matter. There used to be a Wikipedia category for scientists who committed suicide. (With a subcategory: Mathematicians who committed suicide.) Probably removed because it got overly broad or something.
Submitted it to Reddit’s r/MorbidReality once, they just fucking removed it. Reddit mods are assholes.
i’m guessing the subcategory got removed because of slapfights between pure and applied mathematicians
There’s a great book called “the advent of the algorithm” and it has a chapter about how frequently logicians lose their minds and take their lives.
Was probably the “you can help expand this list by contributing” line at the top.
This reminds me of the book Three-Body Problem, which has a whole bunch of physicists going down the suislide near the beginning.
The pool table analogy not making it in to the show was disappointing.
So are lemmy users now that I’ve been here for a while!
What’s the common denominator here bud?
If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day…
Something tells me this may not be a unbiased opinion.
“The Ring” movie was based on this book, with Japan and Hollywood taking their usual liberties and slightly changing it.
Stop reminding me about Daveigh Chase
I like how the bottom panel adds nothing and detracts from the humor.
I don’t know if it adds anything but it does not detract.
Nah it’s a fun reaction
I don’t need a “laugh track” in my joke to tell me it’s funny.
Nah you do, be honest
Her shirt kinda looks like the ships with container, who keep comittinf suicide by running into iranian mines.
I had a professor who called it “Sadistical Thermo-god-damn-its”
When i took it it wasn’t that bad but maybe our professor went easy on us.
I would wager that any fluid dynamics book is cursed and it is rather forbidden knowledge not meant for mortals.
This is probably a bad time to announce my new “predict turbulence” Turing test.
“States of Matter” by David L. Goodstein
Only five chapters?! This one’s gonna be easy!
Perhaps?
what book is this?
Well, at least it isn’t transfinite set theory. Or AI research.
won’t the libs stop! now they’re turning the finite set theories trans!?
Speaking on higher-order infinities, let’s take pity on the MAGA crowd: Of the uncountably many things they’ll never understand is just how hot Cantor’s diagonal argument is. Just look at it, squeezed into that tightly-packed matrix.
Both of those are pretty tame in comparison. Thermodynamics isn’t for the faint of heart.
I personally wouldn’t call the former particularly tame, and the latter of the two comes with the additional burden of knowing that you’re the engineer of our collective end rather than just a student of it.
But I’m not going to argue that grappling with Thermodynamics is easy either. I’m not that far gone.
Like half my ME courses in college were basically the same Thermodynamics stuff repacked in a new way.
(Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, IC Engines, at least 2 others I forget the name of).
Theoretical Thermodynamics and Statistic Physics is different from applied thermodynamics. The latter is fiiinnnneeee. The former is mind melting. I don’t know how deviously engineers get tortured. The gloves come off for physics students for sure.
Engineers probably don’t get it that hard. Like 90% of the thermodynamics stuff was using those little tables with the crooked rectangles (it’s been like 25 years, I don’t remember what they are called).
Plus MEs are like a weird “Jack of all trades” for stuff. We did a little Civil Engineer, a little Electrical Engineering, a little Physics, a little Chemistry, but none of it goes super super deep. And I don’t think it’s as reversed for these individual things. Like, at least at the time, I could do "basic to mid CE and EE stuff, but I don’t think CEs and EEs could do anything but CE and EE stuff.
