What are the most boring subjects to study?

[Jason Voorhees]

Imo Finance and Biology is number 1

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Saint Casanova @imontheloose @Chadeep

 

[grilldaddy❤️]

French

 

[MogsGymMaxx]

Spanish

 

[thales20]

Formal Languages and Automata

 

[Saint Casanova]

Financial mathematics is very interesting.

 

[Saint Casanova]

Probably history or politics tbh.

 

[Koji]

mathematics

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Formal Languages and Automata

I found some of the concepts to be intuitive tbh like solving NFA, DFAs. Not much use in coding but it's tolerable

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Probably history or politics tbh.

Agree with history. Slept through most of my history classes in high school

 

[Klasik616]

Agree with history. Slept through most of my history classes in high school

Makes more sense than studying math. You learn about things that happened and why they happened instead of solving man made theorical problems.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Makes more sense than studying math.

I quite enjoyed math. Especially higher level abstract math. The Calc 2 and 3 are mostly useless for someone in IT but probabilities, matrices, discrete math all this I use everyday

 

[FaceandBBC]

History is the most boring and utter cope of a subject. We are living in the present, not the past. What the fuck am I gonna do with information from years ago? Unless I'm a historian or some shit.

 

[thales20]

Not much use in coding

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Boring asf even graphs theory mogs. Even differential equations mog.

Useless asf (this shit is only used in compilers).

It sure is interesting at some degree, but making me study this as an obligation is brutal.

Chomsky and Greibach are honestly jobless tbh.

 

[thales20]

found some of the concepts to be intuitive tbh like solving NFA, DFAs

It is indeed easy, but is boring. The only hard part I got was Greibach Norm, the algorithm is gigantic.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

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Boring asf even graphs theory mogs. Even differential equations mog.

Useless asf (this shit is only used in compilers).

It sure is interesting at some degree, but making me study this as an obligation is brutal.

Chomsky and Greibach are honestly jobless tbh.

Oh yeah. The CFG and GNF. Literally head breaking shit. Differential equations are also useless for a coder tho. That is more useful for mechanical and electrical engineers.

 

[59H390]

spanish 100 percent i fucking hated that shit

 

[thales20]

I found some of the concepts to be intuitive tbh like solving NFA, DFAs. Not much use in coding but it's tolerable

Also most of the things are just obvious shit like reducing an automata or turning an NFA into a DFA. Shit starts getting hard when the norms (except chomsky) are introduced and turing machine (just a bit hard but gets super easy later).

 

[thales20]

Oh yeah. The CFG and GNF. Literally head breaking shit. Differential equations are also useless for a coder tho. That is more useful for mechanical and electrical engineers.

90% of computer science is useless for the average coder, one thing that is quite true is that they teach you how to think. But honestly they teach overly the necessary.

But it makes sense since its a science and not like an "information systems degree" or "development and analysis of systems degree". Anyways useless lmao.

But the math part is easy asf, just physics that was hard for me, mostly because I couldnt interpret what my teacher wanted on the question.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Also most of the things are just obvious shit like reducing an automata or turning an NFA into a DFA. Shit starts getting hard when the norms (except chomsky) are introduced and turing machine (just a bit hard but gets super easy later).

Turing machine is the one that has allows all languages right? I forgot a lot of the concepts in that course because I never put them to use. Learnt it all very superficially.

 

[thales20]

Turing machine is the one that has allows all languages right? I forgot a lot of the concepts in that course because I never put them to use. Learnt it all very superficially.

It can calculate anything that is calculable. Just sometimes its implementation is overly unnecessary. Like you wouldnt create a turing machine to check if your sentence is just two a's lol.

Its a tape that goes to the left or the right and you can read and write on the specific character you are looking. You must reach the end state so the sentence is accepted.

 

[FastBananaCEO]

Can’t speak for finance, but as a premed, I found general bio to be boring as hell

Those upper level premed courses are fascinating though. At least I think they are.

 

[thales20]

Turing machine is the one that has allows all languages right? I forgot a lot of the concepts in that course because I never put them to use. Learnt it all very superficially.

Its a type two on the chomsky degree thing so it can calculate any languages.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

90% of computer science is useless for the average coder, one thing that is quite true is that they teach you how to think. But honestly they teach overly the necessary.

But it makes sense since its a science and not like an "information systems degree" or "development and analysis of systems degree". Anyways useless lmao.

But the math part is easy asf, just physics that was hard for me, mostly because I couldnt interpret what my teacher wanted on the question.

Agreed most of the stuff I learnt in my CS degree I don't even put them to use. CS degrees are mostly there to follow a structured path to learn and understand give you a high level overview om all the concepts in Computers. If you specifically want to study to become a coder, embedded systems engineer or only do things specific to one IT role you can complete the entire syllabus in just a few months. This is one of the reasons I think CS degree isn't too important to become a great coder. I've known people who never went to uni but are still great coders but a CS degree helps for sure.

 

[thales20]

Agreed most of the stuff I learnt in my CS degree I don't even put them to use. CS degrees are mostly there to give you a structured path to learn and understand give you a high level overview over all the concepts in Computers. If you specifically want to study to become a coder, embedded systems engineer or only do things specific to one IT role you can complete the entire syllabus in just a few months. This is one of the reasons I think CS degree isn't too important to become a great coder. I've known people who never went to uni but are still great coders but a CS degree helps for sure.

I agree a lot on this.

One thing that atleast where I live is true also is that you dont even need a CS degree, its is really good to have one (for your CV), but if you have professional experience, it will look way better on your curriculum vitae rather than a CS degree.

A CS degree is like a booster not like a job guarantee. It makes your life easier to get jobs in the beginning, but if you have a great professional experience, it will be almost like the same thing.

What im doing now is doing a mid internship while working on the uni junior company just to enrich my CV while I do this computer science.

Companies usually look more on what you did rather on what you studied.

 

[Lord_butler]

French

Amen brother

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I agree a lot on this.

One thing that atleast where I live is true also is that you dont even need a CS degree, its is really good to have one (for your CV), but if you have professional experience, it will look way better on your curriculum vitae rather than a CS degree.

A CS degree is like a booster not like a job guarantee. It makes your life easier to get jobs in the beginning, but if you have a great professional experience, it will be almost like the same thing.

What im doing now is doing a mid internship while working on the uni junior company just to enrich my CV while I do this computer science.

Companies usually look more on what you did rather on what you studied.

This is what I tell people here all the time. A CS degree helps. It helps a lot to have a CS degree from a prestigious uni but ultimately it boils down to this. Companies don't care where the fuck you came from. They just want someone who can get shit done and want tangible proof. It's not like Finance where can show off your degree and get hired because the company needs those credentials to maintain its image. They don't go to client and say our employees are from Harvard please give us the contract. Doesn't work in Tech

@Chadeep @imontheloose @Saint Casanova

 

[thales20]

This is what I tell people here all the time. A CS degree helps. It helps a lot to have a CS degree from a prestigious uni but ultimately it boils down to this. Companies don't care where the fuck you came from. They just want someone who can get shit done and want tangible proof. It's not like Finance where can show off your degree and get hired because the company needs those credentials to maintain its image. They don't go to client and say our employees are from Harvard please give us the contract. Doesn't work in Tech

@Chadeep @imontheloose @Saint Casanova

Exactly, they mostly see what you did and what you are capable of doing. Even the creator of homebrew didnt even have a degree (he had a chemistry degree ) and look, a lot of developers use his tools lmao.

Anyways we can both agree we are high IQ.

It was really nice talking to you, tag me in other threads so we can have even more discussions.

 

[browncurrycel]

Finance is really interesting. Take it from somebody who is actually studying it rn

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Finance is really interesting. Take it from somebody who is actually studying it rn

Is it? I found it to be quite boring and repetitive

Question to finance bros

I've been learning financial modeling DCFs, LBOs, comps. it's fun conceptually, I can't imagine doing this 15 hours a day. Doesn't building 20 slide decks, tweaking models for every MD comment, and hopping on endless client calls get mind-numbing? Do deals ever stop feeling like copy-paste...

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[browncurrycel]

Is it? I found it to be quite boring and repetitive

Question to finance bros

I've been learning financial modeling DCFs, LBOs, comps. it's fun conceptually, I can't imagine doing this 15 hours a day. Doesn't building 20 slide decks, tweaking models for every MD comment, and hopping on endless client calls get mind-numbing? Do deals ever stop feeling like copy-paste...

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Theory wise, it is interesting. Interesting subjects and I like solving the questions


But in corporate, it might be boring for people who aren't comfortable with speaking professionally to a lot of people. Lots of human interaction is required to be good at corporate level finance. Theory helps little there.

 

[Doesitmatter?]

Chemistry

 

[silently_said]

Physics

 

[Chadeep]

History