Best take right here. Trig shows up a lot when you actually do stuff. Woodworking, programming, physics, art, music, philosophy. Math shit is universal human language.

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Math shit is universal ~~human~~ language

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Math shit is universal ~~human~~ ~~language~~. True.

But the language part of it is pretty human.

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The other fields I get (trig is insanely useful), but how the bloody hell does one use trig functions in philosophy? Are we gonna be triangulating the border of science to solve the demarcation problem?

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Math is philosophy, and trig does a very good job of describing the world we experience. The unit circle, right angles, pythagorean theorem, sinusoidal damping, etc, are all pretty philosophical concepts. What else could the be.

[–] Aasikki@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like doing stuff but my adhd literally won't let me learn trig 🤣 my brain will just shut down and start daydreaming of literally anything else.

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Don't tell yourself that, unless you're just not that interested. It takes more work and catering some creative solutions, but it is worth it. I got an engineering degree before I was ever even diagnosed or medicated.

[–] Aasikki@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

I'm totally not interested in math stuff, like at all. If I need it for what I'm trying to do, or if it greatly helps me with it, I still end up learning it anyways though :) People often say that learning in practice is the best way and I feel like that is even much more true for me personally. I'm goal oriented af, and I make all those goals myself based on what I want to do. If I really really really want to do something, there's nothing that will stand in my way, I'll find a way. I'm the type of person to get frustrated and say "fuck this I give up", only to be back at it after 30 mins because giving up isn't actually something that exists in my head haha.

So no need to worry about me telling myself that. I guess I was thinking from the perspective of just studying it because of studying it, which yeah is basically impossible for me unless it's just something I'm really interested in and I'm stuck browsing Wikipedia at 3AM. Thanks for the encouragement though, nice stranger! I really do appreciate it.