brianeyci wrote:Engineers are very good at math you dumbass. At least as good as majors, given there is considerable overlap in courses.
Which is why I've taken close to three times the math that a bachelor's mechanical engineer does?
Engineers don't take courses in quantum. They don't address relativity. They don't deal with exotic phenomena. Engineers deal with tables, approximations, and very practical ranges of reality - something that's rare in fiction.
brianeyci wrote:If you rolled out of bed and got 19 on the Putnam, you're either smart or a liar.
Given that a 19 is in the top 500 list circulated to all participating universities, I'd be pretty dumb to lie about it. It's completely legit.
So's my physics GRE score, which is well above average if not quite as impressive.
Now chew on that. Think about your preconceptions for a minute, and mull over the fact that I
am one of those folks who is talented in every academic field I try my hand in, and the fact that my credentials are, in fact, quite solid and exactly what I've told you they are.
Either way it doesn't justify your claim that your education is three times better, has three times more math, or is three times anything.
Three times as broad. Three times as relevant to the sort of crap talked about here.
Wong is a specialist in plastics making assertions about epistemology, logic, ethics, and more. He's way out of his field - at best.
and you attacked the credibility of UW.
Not once have I attacked the credibility of UW. I have consistently described UW as a very good school, in fact (although, see above, it isn't actually highly selective in general admissions terms. Neither, for in-state students, is UNC). See, here's one of the things I really don't like about you folks - you distort constantly what others say. Then the next person quotes
you and distorts what
you said, and before you know it, something completely different is being claimed than what was actually said.
I have attacked Wong as completely untrained in philosophy and horribly wrong, as well as being completely ridiculous in his posturing in claiming that nobody with a real science degree would disagree with him.
I pretty damn well have a real science degree. Ergo, he's flat out wrong.
There's already people who said they had engineering degrees, science degrees, and even math degrees in this thread and other threads, and you claimed that none of them had as good an education as you.
I claimed that probably none of them matched my credentials. In part an act calculated to produce hostility; in part completely true prediction, as not one of you has produced a philosophy degree, which is, IMO, the most important part.
Now that the stardestroyer.net thread is on google, it could do serious damage to his reputation, and it's not good to be used if this tjhairball guy isn't MacIntee but using his name to tar it.
You worrying about lawsuits now that it's public enough to constitute slander?