Computer programming books ... Lol we don't print them any more, they'd be obsolete before hitting the shelves.
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Electron was discovered in 1897. If you own a textbook on chemistry which is older than that, put it up on Ebay in the antiques category.
Newton lived in the 17th century, so if you got a textbook older than that give it back to the museum
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Programming: that book was printed a month ago, and it's already obsolete.
Newspapers printed yesterday are already in the bin.
Tiktok posts last seconds before being discarded.
Mathematics ^teacher^: That textbook was written thousands of years ago, and it is still as useful and relevant as ever, but I want you to buy this one I co-authored instead for the mere sum of $120, otherwise you won't pass.
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Web development: Oh, that textbook is obsolete. It was written last year before Angular v18 was released.
*French SpongeBob voice
"2 hours later"
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As a kid I thought Pythagoras was silly for making a math cult. Now that I'm older I get it.
That's an interesting angle on it, can you say more? Sorry to be obtuse.
Well Pythagoras lived during the Greek era. Buildings like the Temple of Artemis were the greatest projections of power and grandeur the world had to offer at the time. Those great structures would've dwarfed anything seen out in the country. The only way those buildings could ever be erected is with the help of mathematics.
Furthermore mathematical truths are about as true as anything can be in the world. A triangle's angles are always perfectly in harmony for instance. Way back when, when the world was much darker and more chaotic, those mathematical truths must've seemed like a great light in the darkness.
Mathematics is applicable truth.
Oh that book is outdated. That's the second edition, you need the third addition to complete the one math problem I am basing your entire grade on for the course.
"Why yes I do happen to also be the author of the textbook for this course, why do you ask?"
Theres a lovely scene in Star Trek where Picard is captured, then finds an exposed wire on the cell panel. He takes it and begins tapping out prime numbers, to show to the aliens’ mathematicians that they’re sentient and capable of thought, independent of language.
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Wrong for physics. Models to describe reality don't magically become wrong just because a model with better predictive power is discovered. Most old models are special cases of newer ones.
Yeah, Newton wasn't just a science bitch who is wrong, sometimes. His equations are the special case of General Relativity when acceleration is very low. Which is the world we live in.
Philosopher to the right of the mathematician: "You're welcome for the axioms"
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Computer Science:
Oh, that textbook is outdated. That was before NodeJS 22.
Or: The new version is reimplemented and incompatible, so everything you learnt about it from the previous versions is wrong.
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For me its like "oh great a old textbook, now i can finally understand our legacy codebase".
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Software Development: You bought a textbook?
"Oh, that blog post is obsolete. It was written before version 1.87.0d.20250304.nightly"
"It's okay, I'll just ask ChatGPT."
Asks ChatGPT about new feature.
ChatGPT makes up a completely fictional answer that sounds plausible given the state of the repository two years ago.
"That's great! I'd love to help you discover the exciting world of programming! The best language for a starter is probably HTML, which stands for Hypertext Text Machine Learning Code 5. You can write HTML in an environment which is a kind of software. The best environments for creating HTML are:
- VSCode
- Visual Studio Code
- Code
- HTML
- Eclipse
- Visual FoxPro
- Visual Basic
- Visual C+++
- Borland Turbo
- Pascal
- Vienna
- Innsbruck
- Salzburg
Remember to install your favourite using one or more supported environments. Begin with something basic and work up from there. You'll be in no time. Have fun! Or should I say, Have Fun!"
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Science is validated by the new information replacing the old. Al-Khwarizmi worked out numbers so we don’t have to,
My favorite way to connect people with academia is pointing out how recently zero was invented because even the most reluctant “I don’t know math” person understands zero these days.
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Reality: The universe was spontaneously created last thursday and there is no way for you to disprove it.
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That $300 stack of the cheapest thin paper was last semester. The online code you need for class is void, and the questions won't match the answer key.
This was made by someone who doesn't understand any of it.
Easy as
I/II= ,V
(OK, that was confusing, it's I/II= .V in barbaric` )
Physics books are never outdated, you just discover better models that work in a wider range of conditions.
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The really funny part is the other two are also just math.
The fabric of reality is woven from math, and that's beautiful.
I've got a pet theory that a hypothetical alien species' music would be more recognizably similar to humans' than their biology would.
This could make the plot of a great sci-fi book. Love the idea.
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There's a whole bit in The Incredibles about how math has changed since Bob was in school
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