when you work in an interdisciplinary institution:
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phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Xkcd really do have a panel for everything.
Naich@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Biology is just applied chemistry. Chemistry is just applied physics. Physics is just applied maths. Everything is maths.
Tanoh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This is one of my favorite xkcds
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Math is just simplified physics. Physics is just simplified chemistry. Chemistry is just simplified biology.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Chemistry is just simplified biology.
Eh, for organic, maybe. For inorganic not really. And all the crystal stuff is just physics we appropriated. And the rest of materials science is rightfully ours as well and one day we shall take it back from the engineers.
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Math is just simplified physics
I don’t know if I agree with that. Math is the language used to express Physics concepts. Physics is a conceptualization of the fundamental laws of the universe
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
And holding up that entire stack is philosophy.
Alaik@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Not wrong at all, as true today as when it was first said.
Gustephan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nonsense. An astrophysicist wouldn’t be caught dead hanging out in public with their dealer and somebody who thinks counting past 1 is pointless.
(/s but also shit talking is fun so pop off if this made your blood boil and you’ve got a witty retort)
janus2@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Be nice to the computer scientist! They wrote the program y’all space nerds can use to calculate orbital paths around your mom.
(how’s that lol)
Gustephan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At least the program can run in polynomial time. They tried to do the same for yall stamp collectors moms but quickly realized that problem was NP hard!
(Perfect, no notes)
Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Aren’t most computer scientists more like technicians or engineers than actual scientists?
featured@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
I wouldn’t say so. People who majored in CS in undergrad frequently go on to be software engineers, but if you’re using the title of computer scientist you’re almost certainly on the scientific/theoretical/mathematic side of the practice.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Computer science is so broad you have some truth to your statement. It’s more science in the way math is a science as math is one of the underlying building structure of computer science. It also deals with languages and syntax so that’s also a subset of science.
Some comp sci people are technicians, computer engineers, some being computer researchers, data scientists, etc
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Computer scientists? Sure, maybe. But all four of us will join together to resent the engineers for designing systems around extrapolated power law fits and lack of rigor (and totally not because they are higher paid or anything).
janus2@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Four of you!? That’s practically an army!!
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Chemist here: yep.
Doxatek@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Aw man :c
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I care more about genetic manipulation than all the others, and I’m pretty sure that’s a branch of biology. So… Yeah. Bio #1.
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Check out Michael Levin and his work with epigenetics. Extremely fascinating stuff.
Drekaridill@feddit.is 2 months ago
Computer scientist here. I definitely do not think I’m better than a biologist.
janus2@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
biochemist. i think I’m the worst lol
Drekaridill@feddit.is 2 months ago
I was actually on track to becoming a biochemist before I changed to computer science