Thermodynamics is the subject I most wish I retained more of from college. Studied just enough to pass, then promptly forgot most of it. And since it’s a subject that basically never comes up afterwards unless you’re doing pretty specialized work, it’s pretty much all gone.
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I’d like to make much better versions of joking-but-not-joking meta-shitposts like this. Complete with Gibbs free energy calculations, shitposting efficiency etc.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1234966515822120960 …
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On a scale of 1-10, 10 being highest, here’s my ranking of engineering subjects based on philosophical profundity: Shop class: 10 Materials science: 9.5 Thermodynamics: 9 Information theory: 9 Controls: 8 Computational complexity: 7 Design: 6* OR: 5 Optimization: 4 * any genre
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This is my ranking in 2021. If you’d asked me right after graduation in 1997, my ranking would have been way different.
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Shop class tops the list not because it’s difficult to pass or because of glorification of working with hands. It tops the list because it calibrates your sense of just how much detail reality has, which then becomes your measure of the contentfullness of everything else.
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