So many spreadsheets.
As an engineer, this hits close to home.
Engineers: So we had all this complicated theory, but no one can calculate that stuff by himself. Here’s a linear aproximation formula and 50 pages of tables where you just look up the values for the factors given certain conditions.
The complicated math is for the one guy who made the tables and charts. The rest of you just look it up. It’s fine, it’s how we’ve always done it. Even sending people to the Moon had lookup tables for precalculated things. Although those guys were legend, ever try to use a sliderule?
When your “calculator” is a room full of women, mostly black, it is kinda hard to fit them all into the orbiter.
Edit: I just realized that the “mostly black” came off like I was saying that us part of the reason they would not fit in the orbiter. I was trying to acknowledge the impact and importance of these black women in history, but I am autistic and fail hard at SQ communication.
I comprehended it as meant, and you’re right, give credit where it’s due.
Depending on the field, later in your career you can often skip the spreadsheets and get away with just saying, “That looks close enough,.” If you have enough seniority people will assume you know what you’re talking about.
As another engineer, not at all 🤨
Computer engineer checking in. Same here!
Hopefully you utilize Python instead of Excel for data management. Unless you have non-engineers or tech-illiterate people on your team or adjacent teams lol
I mostly use sql for data management stuff through c# .NET. But there is a lot of Excel and power bi towards the numbers people.
Why not both. I once wrote an abomination that read and wrote data into a Google Spreadsheet, interacting with formulas in the spreadsheet in the process.
Join the technicians in the field who get to laugh at engineers, its more rewarding
Edit: sales get the commission tho :(
It’s amazing to be to see these memes where people seemingly declare that all applied mathematics is done by MBA flunkies in Excel. Just in the past year I’ve done cuda implementations to calculate the intersection of N cones, physics-based EM ray tracing, and fisher-information regularization.
Christ if there’s this population of physicists and mathematicians on here who are yearning for real DSP and numerical analysis jobs, then fucking hit those DMs because we cannot find you on Indeed.
I dropped out of my Physics MS and my shitty job is now inventory spreadsheets. Fucking hate people trying to make them relational databases.
Well I for one would be delighted to cross 35 years of software engineering with a maths hobby but I can hardly find anything.
The only place I did find declared that I didn’t have enough maths without even seeing me or saying what kind of maths I would need for the role. From the JD it didn’t sound too tricky: pathfinding for construction robots.
It guy, I have to fix spredsheets that are actually charts on word documents. I can not make them a spreadsheet as it is a miracle they got it that far and I must not break the finances.
Uhhhhhhhh wow. My sympathies.
I must not break the finances.
If they’re doing calculations in a table in word, then it’s already broken :)
I like to spice up my time with spreadsheets by doing them in Pandas. That way they can be theoretical and it is like mathematical roleplay.
On the “numbers and counting” part they crossed over 5 lines instead of 4, I am upset.
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There is no real math on that graph. It’s just what anyone learns in a good education. Well, that and probability theory, combinatorics, and statistics.
I’d really expect more from a math student.
Woah woah woah wait hold up. So you’re saying I can just represent these complex multi-variable integral abominations into just stuff like a couple of matrices and vectors???
Human kettlebell here, them squigglies shore is purdy!
