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Pick some unrelated lectures, they said. (sh.itjust.works)
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It will widen your horizon, they said. And here I was, foolishly thinking I could get away with half-assing statistics during my degree.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Engineering formulas be like

"So there was this guy in 1896 and he did a bunch of trials and he figured out that a+b*x/c² is close enough to the real results, with values for a in range 1-2 and b in range 3-4. We still don't understand why, or how he got there, but it worked ever since."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Scientists want to understand things. Engineers don't care, as long as it works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

"More recent research has produced a more precise emperical relation, -4.2x^3.761+√(sin(2x²/π))±erf(e²ˣ+37), which produces results which are 0.2% more accurate on average."