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Devac  ·  2087 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature

Then I'm recommending Group Theory in Physics by J.F. Cornwell for when you'll find that elusive 'free time' people bring up. It's three volumes, 1st one is a solid introduction to the 'slightly more formal group theory'. There's also some abridged version that picks only the meaty bits out of vol 1 and 2 which I found as a handy reference for most of the courses with 'quantum' in the name.

    Sounds like you're a very expensive motion detector!

It's a living. I get money for sitting with a choice between being idle or working on my stuff. Could have turned out a lot worse.

Really, the main reason for my butthurt is the number of rejections. You'd think that after 21 technical interviews I'd get something because of human error if nothing else. Doesn't help that the main insight I got from people boils down to either having no skills to speak of or possessing the least compatible personality since the times of pharaoh Assholetep.





am_Unition  ·  2087 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You have recommended a book so obscure that I cannot find any reviews for it, on any platform. I'm more than a little impressed. Thank you :).

    You'd think that after 21 technical interviews I'd get something because of human error if nothing else. Doesn't help that the main insight I got from people boils down to either having no skills to speak of or possessing the least compatible personality since the times of pharaoh Assholetep.

Did I... miss this update? Is there like a Pubski post you made or something? Yeah, "no skills", you're only a budding physicist-mathematician that operates at a level far beyond their age. Do you think you're overly intimidating your interviewers? Maybe they think that you're going to take their jobs out from under them? Because there's absolutely no way that your IRL personality is that dismal. After seeing you interact for 2+ years here, you play nice plenty of the time. Like almost all of it, 'cept when people are asking for it. I'm at maximum perplexion on this one.

Fuck it though, I hope you keep striking out so I can hire you someday, lolz (/s)! Not that I think you couldn't do my future job better than me, I'm just not terribly afraid of the prospect. Then you can hire me! Maybe.

Dala  ·  2086 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just remember, Einstein had trouble getting a job in his field and ended up working as a patent clerk and it afforded him the time to work on whatever he wanted and look where that got us. ;)