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The Math Pill
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Why haven't you started learning math, anon? Not only does math have practical real world applications, but it will help you in determining what is and isn't true. Without a proper understanding of math you will need to have truth dictated to you by people who do understand. If you really want to be able to uncover truth on your own then you need a proper understanding of math.
Anonymous
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numberphile is the most white youtube channel. They also teach good maths
Anonymous
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Math is based and red pilled.
t. engineer
Anonymous
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>>287576
A very important pill to take. How do you usually study? Even if I understand how some something is done and I understand its logic, I have a hard time practically applying this knowledge. Does anyone relate, or am I just retarded?
>>287580
Good lads, I recommend
Anonymous
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>>287594
Well find out what you want to do.
Math has a means for every situation.
It's in the application that mathematics shows its form.
If you want to find total forces and how it spreads the more detailed it is the accurate it is. So you could do calculus or just algebra.
There are several services now days to double check and the internet can get a plethora of answers.
The application comes from the wisdom of why you would do something vs doing something else.
Math is the blueprint for reality. Need the most efficient, durable, and cost effective blend for concrete? Math has you covered.
Want a way to watch time looping animu in chronological order, math. Need to design an extremely sturdy wooden construct math is your friend.
>>287580
>Numberphile
I see everyone here is cultured with excellent taste.
Also SingingBanana for more Grimes.
Anonymous
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I've always been awful at math
Anonymous
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>>287594
I'm also an engineer so I use math on a daily basis. I learned math in school and university
Anonymous
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>>287598
Lots of people don't teach math good. I make alot of mistakes, and with a careful eye they can be caught and rectified.

At the core of math is relationships, connections, logical points that lead to one thing or another. Asking what if and exploring what that would mean.

Math as a mindset is alot like computer science. Logical points that can be taken step by step to accomplish the most seemingly incredible tasks.
That's more on the theoretical side. Practical side is applying it for your own purposes.
Anonymous
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>>287600
Interesting. I do have a lot of respect for those who can do math well, don't get me wrong.
I think it's more because I'm more of a creative type, but who knows.
Anonymous
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>>287594
I also learned math from schooling, but the U.S. navy has some good resources for learning it on your own.
https://www.constructionknowledge.net/public_domain_documents/Div_1_General/Math/Basic%20Math%20and%20Algebra%20NAVEDTRA%2014139.pdf
https://archive.org/details/US_Navy_Training_Course_-_Mathematics_Trigonometry
https://archive.org/details/US_Navy_Training_Course_-_Pre-calculus_and_Introduction_to_Probability
http://www.constructionknowledge.net/general_technical_knowledge/images_gen_tech_knowledge/US_Navy_Introduction_to_Statistics_NAVEDTRA_14142.pdf

Even if you aren't interested in these please download the above links as they are being slowly purged from the internet.

If you want to get better at applying it I suggest you start your own engineering projects at home like build a drone, a rift raft 3d printer, or a foundry. You could also practice statistics by tearing through leftist academic papers and finding everything that is wrong with them if that is more your style.

>>287598
Then git gud

If people here are genuinely interested in learning math you can start with the resources listed above and youtube videos. I will check in this thread from time to time and if you have a question or can't answer a problem on your own then I will help.
Anonymous
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>>287601
Math has a place there too.
Using creativity to learn math is kind of like putting one's self into a box. The goal is to find new things, and then break out.
All the tools have their rules and limits, but each can paint differently to solutions or even more questions.

>>287602
I will definitely check it out.
Indeed youtube videos are a great resource. Everything from economics, math, science, engineering, writing, statistics, and more.
Anonymous
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>>287602
>leftists push through bullshit common core math teaching practices
>leftists try to discredit mathematics with postermodernist pilpul
>leftists try to purge math education resources throughout the internet

The left sure does seem to hate math. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that the left also hates truth.
Anonymous
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>>287580
don't forget computephile
Anonymous
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>>287576
I value math and I have a high respect for people who are good at it, but I just have literally zero aptitude for it. In school I breezed through English and Philosophy and subjects like that with no trouble at all; I actually used to dumb down a lot of my responses on purpose because I didn't want to get put into AP courses where I'd have to do actual work. With Math though it took all of my effort just to squeak by with a D-, and every time I've returned to college I've had to take remedial math courses. The remedial courses are basically just middle and high school level math, but I have to take them over again each time because I just don't retain any of the information, and I have to go through the same struggle to re-learn it each time. I have no trouble with language, logic, or anything like that, but for some reason numbers turn into alien script whenever I try to look at them, and I just can't grasp any mathematical concepts above basic arithmetic.
Anonymous
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>>287640
Maybe you have dyscalculia. Nootropics might help.
Anonymous
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>>287576
>Not only does math have practical real world applications, but it will help you in determining what is and isn't true
A practical method to detect non logical individuals is to expose them to basic theorems like to demonstrate the existence of zero (0). They will burn their neurons trying to explain it.
Anonymous
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OP ain't lying. Though, lots of MIT graduates who end up on Wall Street, are so blinded by muh quants and muh indicators, they never bother to look at the clues contained in previous price action.
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