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Originally posted by benmint0n
I don't want to do the math test anymore. I got an engineering degree and breezed through the calculus needed for that (differential equations and multivariable calculus). Found it very fascinating and always wanted to pursue it further, but didn't really see the point in taking more courses since I didn't need to in order to achieve my engineering goals.

The stats courses I took pissed me off due to the fact that we had to use 'R' in all of them, and I found it quite non-user friendly.

I much preferred using matlab, which was a blast.

Mechanical?

Civil. Doing city engineering work at the moment, working towards doing more structural design work in the next year or so.

Originally posted by Primate
Yes. Structural Steel. It dropped way off the first quarter, but is gearing up hard now. Pretty typical pattern. Election year makes it a little tougher, though. (Everyone gets crazy hungry trying to squirrel away nuts for the assumed decline)

Does that really happen every election cycle? That's crazy

Originally posted by benmint0n
Does that really happen every election cycle? That's crazy

Yeah. It's crazy, but it happens.

Originally posted by benmint0n
Civil. Doing city engineering work at the moment, working towards doing more structural design work in the next year or so.

If you get the chance, punch an architect in the face.

That's on my bucket list.

Originally posted by Primate
If you get the chance, punch an architect in the face.

That's on my bucket list.

I haven't had any bad experiences to date, but have heard so many structural guys talk shit about them.

Originally posted by benmint0n
I don't want to do the math test anymore. I got an engineering degree and breezed through the calculus needed for that (differential equations and multivariable calculus). Found it very fascinating and always wanted to pursue it further, but didn't really see the point in taking more courses since I didn't need to in order to achieve my engineering goals.

The stats courses I took pissed me off due to the fact that we had to use 'R' in all of them, and I found it quite non-user friendly.

I much preferred using matlab, which was a blast.

given your engineering background, i can guarantee you'd school me on differential equations, especially in application. i'm clueless.

agreed that R sucks, though the emergence of data science is changing all that. for the last while we've seen more and more of R's capability getting ported over to Python -- and even though R has a decent IDE with R Studio, there is now Rodeo on the scene for Python. at this point, the only reason for any new learner to tackle R is because it's far more robust for statistics, everything is integrated, it's faster than Python at many things, and its data visualization is far better -- but none of that is out of reach for Python, especially if you also know something like C++. and besides all that, Julia is already here and will be the dominant software for both statistics and data science soon enough. it will be a blessing.

yeah, MatLab is fun, though dang are its licenses expensive and ugh is Octave annoying at times, even with its GUI. never really liked Mathematica or Maple all that much, though the Sage project always intrigued me -- though i could see it getting blown out by Julia too (at some point). also, the future of most of this is in the communication, so markdown is important and Jupyter seems to becoming the gold standard. i could even see engineers getting into it for collaboration and reporting.

Originally posted by Primate
If you get the chance, punch an architect in the face.

That's on my bucket list.

aw, why the hate?

let me guess, design-build?

Originally posted by Catullus16
aw, why the hate?

let me guess, design-build?

Just years of experience with Architects. Some are good, but too many of them are arrogant, and turn projects into their own personal art projects regardless of cost to the owner. They often refuse to answer questions during the drawing phase, and want to come in later and claim that the product "didn't align with their intent". On top of that, the trend in the last decade has been for architects to push all responsibility downhill. It has become an industry trend, though. Engineers now do much of the same. They push off connection design, coordination, etc onto the GC who pushes it onto the fabricator. As the last line, we have not found anyone to push it onto.

Actually design build isn't an issue. The only real problems I see there are projects where we bid a job based on Structural drawings before the architect has even started to draw them. Sometimes the Architect tries to backdoor his spin into a project after it has bid. That is only an issue when they try to shove that down your throat without recognizing the fact that changes do, in fact, cost money.

Originally posted by stromstarhammer
QB's my buddy out of Columbus.

Which QB?

Originally posted by ibleedgreen007
Which QB?

Jennings

Originally posted by stromstarhammer
Jennings

Did you go to Saggy?

Originally posted by ibleedgreen007
Which QB?

Xu muskie

Originally posted by Primate
Did you go to Saggy?
I know him through my cousin in Columbus.
I beat him in ping pong this year, which doesn't sound that impressive, but hes one of those guys that's good at everything he does.
I think it's been like 8 years now, and I've never won at cornhole

Originally posted by Primate
If you get the chance, punch an architect in the face.

That's on my bucket list.

Amen brother.