Up until uni I really loved math for its own sake. By my university years* that was gone I heavily criticized ever since how most higher math education I encountered was completely devoid of even hints to practical use cases — and thus failed to spark the slightest interest in me

/*I started a front-loaded math-heavy CS degree waaay back, I eventually dropped out to work full-time in webdev, and went back to uni few years later — but this time I graduated, as an Applied Economics BSc https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙃" title="Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht"> the full story won& #39;t fit a tweet but nuff said: I never regretted it/

What I& #39;m getting at, the 10 minutes @yoshuawuyts & @bitshiftmask discussing the PID usecase for calculus in this podcast has done more to want me to study math more than entire semesters of higher education — and I find that incredibly sad https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😟" title="Besorgtes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Besorgtes Gesicht"> https://jamesmunns.com/podcast/008-yosh/">https://jamesmunns.com/podcast/0...

This of course hasn& #39;t been the first time — diving into computer graphics, *especially* on the level of low-level primitives (2D or 3D both) have shown me how incredibly useful discrete mathematics, calculus, matrices and so on. really is and reinvigorated my love for maths…

…it& #39;s just sad these came after the system already spoiled my appetite ( @bitshiftmask actually talks about this ‘burnout’ above in a different context!)—but makes it so much more wonderful to see math nerds like @logicsoup thriving (perhaps in spite?) of their formal educationhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💖" title="Funkelndes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Funkelndes Herz">