| ▲ | erxam 2 hours ago |
| Genuinely, what is it that you get from studying mathematics? I get that it's a hobby, but what do you even do with the knowledge you acquire? I don't exactly fear math (even though I'm complete shit at it) but the time investment required is absolutely massive for something with questionable utility, even just for playing around with. You need a super strong base to even attempt bashing basic problems, so that's easily four or five years of study just to play around a bit. |
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| ▲ | tibbar an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| For me, math was a way to study structure. I find this sort of thing tremendously beautiful on its own, but as it happens "finding the structure in things" turns out to be quite lucrative in the professional world as well, and I often use various ideas and strategies I chanced upon as a student of mathematics. |
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| ▲ | erxam an hour ago | parent [-] | | I see. I suppose it makes sense if you're in a career position that allows you to freely explore the world. |
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| ▲ | srean an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Do you listen to music ? |
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| ▲ | erxam an hour ago | parent [-] | | I do, yes. I won't call it a hobby because I don’t create anything, I'm just a mindless rabid stupid cunt of a consoomer who doesn't know how to differentiate his ass from a hole on the fucking ground, but I do spend a lot of time listening to music. I've spent a lot of money on audio equipment. Even so, if you wanted to bring up time signatures, microtonality or something like math rock… I'm aware of those, but I still think the only thing that matters is that they're tools meant to allow you to express a certain message in the most appropriate ways, not so much an end in themselves. | | |
| ▲ | srean an hour ago | parent [-] | | Sounds a damn good hobby to me. I don't think hobby requires building anything. Spending time actively engaged is enough. One can enjoy mathematics the way one enjoys listening to music. On the other hand if you do want to make something, and you happen to know related math then suddenly you can use it. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47112418 Building these are neither my hobby, not did I learn the relevant math for the exclusive purpose of making it. But once you acquire a few math razors you start seeing inviting fluffy yaks that were invisible before. | | |
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