Brain Surgeon - That Mitchell & Webb Look , Series 3 - BBC

Yeah you'd have to be a rocket scientist to be able to look down the list and find the biggest numbers... Off topic, but very funny: [VIDEO]

[VIDEO] X_dot = A X + B U Y = C X + D U Rocket science I did simstructure -- rocketscience My master's degree is rocket science [LINK] Snort: you'll notice that little course called "nonlinear control systems" with the A after it? That's as far as you can go in math. Nonlinear differential equations. Ask any mathmetician. He'll tell you nonlinear differential equations is the end of the road.

> We make jokes about how nearly nothing is "rocket science" or "brain surgery" for a reason [VIDEO] My favourite of those.

I don't tend to link youtube videos on HN, particularly of the comedic type, but I'm just going to leave this here for anyone who wants a good laugh for their morning. [VIDEO]

We already have people that perform the software equivalent of rocket brain surgery... ANFSCD: Have a free laugh: [VIDEO]

It's very common that someone hasn't heard of everything. It's why down votes without explanation are bad, like on StackOverflow. It was in reference to That Mitchell and Webb Look: [LINK] [VIDEO]

I don't think plumber vs. theoretical physics post-doc is a great example. Plumbing is critical skilled work, taking years to master, and is paid accordingly. I imagine plumbing is also very stressful, at times, such as when you're being careful not to flood a building, or avoiding breaking something that would require ripping open a floor to fix. Though plumbing guild training sounds not entirely different than academia. (And postdocs tend to get paid poo because the market, and their guild, permit it.) We should also be careful of to avoid the oopses of: "Brain Surgeon - That Mitchell & Webb Look, Series 3 - BBC Two" [VIDEO]

That's the best description. "Joe over there? Oh, he's a rocket surgeon." Now I can't help remembering a sketch from Mitchell and Webb.[1] 1: [VIDEO]