Re: education

Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> writes:

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And this, in turn reminds me of the decades-old "two mathematicians
and a waitress" joke; see, e. g. (URI split for readability):
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http://web.archive.org/web/20190622112330/
http://www.math.ttu.edu/~pearce/jokes1/joke-086.html

Lol.  I don't get the joke.  What's up with the joke?  I'm slow.  The
waitress has a hard-science college degree but can't get a job in her
field?  That's not a joke.  I don't get the joke.  Please explain? :)

Lol.  I just asked ChatGPT to explain it to me and he's saying that the
joke is how academics have so little understanding of anything outside
academia?  That's kinda funny.  If that's what the joke is about, it's
even more funny because I didn't get it.  Lol!  One could make the case
that I'm like an academic.  However, I believe the reason I didn't get
it is that I didn't think the situation made any sense.  Although I do
think that the joke could be more funny if we adjust its context.  The
number of college graduates who are not getting a job in their field is
increasing, so this waitress could actually be an engineer herself, say.
But I think an explanation is needed to why she pretended not to
understand the arithmetic expression 1/3 x^3.  Anyway, I didn't get the
joke at all and I'm not even sure ChatGPT understood it either, but he
does have a point. :)