/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12791110
As long as he gets it done what's the difference.

>>12791110
No, I am attracted to it because I enjoy clarity and have always found mathematics enjoyable because of this. But I've never looked into it past middle school level, which is why I ask if I may find more of such in it.

>>12790786
>How important is mathematics to developing comprehension?
Very. Notice how academia has gone to shit when we removed the mathematical requirements.

>>12791068
there is an extreme amount of envy and racism in physics nowadays. Academia needs to be rivaled

>>12791117
dont respond to this brainlet. there are people actively pushing others out of their fields because they have are too pretentious to understand anything outside, and in some cases within, their own subjects.

>>12790830
Only in the same way the best style of clothes that fit you is """genetic""" a.k.a you'd be a dumbass like that anon to think everyone doesn't have their own learning style they have to find for themselves.

>>12791029
>learning styles
big meme, needing a certain method or style just means you're a brainlet. no one smart has ever worried about that shit, because all you need to do is read, listen, think, and write good notes.

>>12790740
> Just read more lol
Only kidding, you just need to read more all the time

>>12790740
>do squats; get better at squatting
>run; get proficient in running
>read; become advanced in reading
>do math; become schziophrenic
>be OP a huge fucking faggot
>instead of learning he chooses to just jerk off on the internet and make the same thread every day
yeah OP you're the problem.
you'll never learn effectively because you're lazy. you nigger

>>12790740
Use Anki. It changed everything for me. seriously, give it a try, you won't be disappointed. It's nothing like "doing flashcards" in my opinion, and the algorithm for spaced religion works very well.

I have dabbled in lucid dreaming infrequently

>>12790688
>Xth thread on psychedelics today
Reminder that LSD was provided by the CIA in the 50s and 60s.

OP should propose an experiment

>>12790670
isn't that illegal?

>>12791575
wow this guy is right. I dropped out of brown and three years later finished my degree at a lesser state school, you know like the one that a step below THE state school, and then got a job at Amazon because of connections.

uhhh ummm... i thought you guys were talking about mycology and growing/picking mushrooms....

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>>12790675
This jokes never siezes to be funny.

>>12790653
interesting question. i would say the answer is yes. and i think the reason is not so hard to grasp at least in the context of physics. if you look at the history of physics, more and more the concepts have become more unnatural for people to comprehend, or in other words they challenge the simple intuition that everyday common sense is based on. therefore, two things happen: 1) it becomes easy for woo-woo people to trick the untrained minds of the masses into thinking physics justifies outlandish claims. 2) it becomes easier for the simple-minded engineer or old-fashioned person to appeal to common sense to try and say why the counterintuitive physics is wrong and thus whoever is listening them should trust them to believe in their seemingly common sense ideas which might either be outmoded thought or quackery or some mixture

some examples: 1) obviously has quantum woo-woo people like John Hagelin who says that grand unified theories imply the existence of a field of consciousness that enables telekenesis, 2) has the example of the Electric Universe folks who are convinced a ether exists and einstein was wrong and quantum is wrong but they’re so smart that they know gravity is really magnetism and black holes don’t exist because the evidence is a conspiracy to suppress the “it’s all magnets” community

then there is even overlap which is very cringe. you’d figure 1ers and 2ers are at obvious sides of the spectrum, but indeed the möbius strip of idiocy loops back on itself

>>12790653
Correlation =! Causation

Things just go by different names when their old ones become unfeasible. Ufology used to be mythology etc. Although you may be onto something, as as science becomes more niche and complicated, to uninitiated eyes, somethings seem so esoteric that to them, there is no other reasonable alternative than whatever quackery they believe fills their gap in knowledge. But that's just my 2¢

>>12790653
Scientific method results can lead to the wide acceptance of a particular theory, which could be used in an unscientific manner to discredit other methods.
At the end of the day, it comes to doing the research in a meticulous manner that prevents the old scientific theory from preventing the acceptance of a new one.

The problem is that organisations are paid to do experiments to discredit theories by being seemingly related to the new theory but not actually properly related. People will just assume it is related and it does discredit the theory.

tl;dr it's all about framing

>>12790733
>Ufology used to be mythology etc.
Mythology covers a very broad range. Ufology specifically is an out growth of heliocentrism and industrial technological improvement. Could a story like War of the Worlds be told in more ancient times and make sense, or could someone from that time come up with such a story?

>>12792132
this. Fuck pythoniggers and their high-level shit.

>>12790618

because there is no perfect overlap between grades and performance, so grade elitism is bullshit, only thing which matters is actual performance in the actual job and you won't take exams as a job .

>>12792132
>>12792323
You assholes I'm an embedded engineer. I spend all day every day writing C. C is 100% the wrong language to be doing ML in. But then you guys don't know what ML is even about so I'll cut this reply here.

>>12792909
The undergrad course is done using python and apache spark but the grad course is more theory and instead of using ML libraries we have to build functions that would be incorporated into a ML library if that makes any sense. The functions already exist in a standard ML library today but the course wants you to learn the theory and apply the concept from scratch. It's simple for someone with a C background but I'm learning about pthreads and I need to be able to communicate between every thread as well as main thread and use mutex locks and stuff. I'm sure this is trivial to anons who already took OS/optimization courses but I'm struggling with the pace.

Painting bachelors degree with minor in biology.

I switched majors three times in uni, pre-med->art->philosophy->art

No its not the end of the world, but it is a huge waste of money.

If yourr on your parents dime expect a good whoopin'.

Sounds like you neef to work a wageslave job like dunkin donuts for a year like I did in order to appreciate what it is youre trying to avoid with attaining a degree.

Yeah, I'm studying to be a massage therapist now because its actually something I'm interested in doing, something the world needs, something I'm good at, and I can get paid for.

Sounds like you haven't found your ikigai. I may be a brainlet compared to the rest of you math fucks but I'm semi proud to say I burnt through 8 years of STEM daddys money trying to get my bachelors degree (2010-2018) only to fuck up trying to teach English in Israel and then dunkin' donuts.

>>12791510
> Too optimistic for life
good luck anon

>>12792130
Pvt. Does-it-wrong reporting sir! I promise to fuck up every opportunity, fail every test, and abandon all responsibilities in the most creative way possible, sir!
>Becomes Anonymous's slave
I NEVER WANTED MY REAL LORD & MASTER HAVE A NAME ANYWAY!

>>12790771
Hes a product of his environment, i fell for that meme too but luckily i learned to like math in college

>>12792210
unlike everyone in this thread I learned to like pussy in college
also I dropped out and became a software developer

>>12790575
Realistically the reason a lot of the time why it's hard to learn things in school is that you are limited by time. With enough time any topic or subject becomes attainable. You can do it, anon. Achieve enlightenment in the ways of Algebra.

Bump

If you're taking a minor in math, you'll have plenty of time to show the B was just a fluke. Also, COVID classes won't affect you as much as other classes when it comes to graduate programs looking at your grades.

>>12790494
kys frogposter, you know it's the only way

>>12790605
None of these things are a problem

>>12790610
Grades are everything in life anon. Nothing else matters

>>12790494
You wouldn't happen to be that last guy would you?

either
>human-computer intelligence linking
>adaptive general purpose artificial intelligence
>biological, neuron-based computers
quantum is kind of a meme in my opinion, and we've almost reached the limit of the silicon transistor.

Guys I found a small (abandoned?) mountain of this shit near our home. I took a few pieces home. It's not full silicon but silicon manganese not sure the ratio.

What can I do with this baby mountain of this?

>>12797124
I googled some, I wonder what these guys are doing

>>12797124
Can I make mustard gas of these? Will deliver results.

>>12797134
>Can I make mustard gas of these?
nope sadly

>>12790457
Nanotech is boring ass material science shit that no one even cares the slightest about until it's in a consumer product.
Stop reading scifi it's ruining your brain.

>>12792594
Nanotech is not boring!!!!! We can have Iron Man suits and nearly unbreakable materials!!!! Maybe even AGI!

>>12793192
t.

>>12790457
There was the hype phase of overpromising (90s/00s), now it's in the dark phase of shit getting done (10s/20s) and suddenly it will reappear in the mainstream again, this time to stay (30s, 40s)

>>12793249
Can't wait to see it's military applications.

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>>12792635
>page 10
>not even image limit or close to bump limit
what the fuck anon

>>12792649
>not close to bump limit
>page 10
Anon...

>>12792649
R-retardo-kun

>>12792649
dogpile this cunt

>>12796478
macauley culkin said michael jackson's house was basically the only place he could go to not get molested. they've been lying to us for a long time.

>>12790405
He's black, blacks have always been more athletic than any other race.

>>12796540
it's because the slow ones got ate by lions for 40,000 years but nobody else had that evolutionary pressure

>>12791749
>One of his dancers actually tore his calve muscle doing this.
This guy ?
Seriously, I can see how it works if you don't bend to low, but how can someone get back up from this position with only the strength of his calves ?

>>12796718
>Do sick moves with MJ on stage
>Can't get back up
>fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
>Everybody continues with their dance
>you just chill

>>12790923

At worse they get a full body genetically modified amoeba to warrant possession. The idea is to alter validity with a genetic altering specimen. So it’s technically a legalized trench warfare. Zone A can’t tell people about zone B aids. It may or may not be difference with same manifesting layout.

>>12790936

If you study the African aids history. You’ll realize that beyond the doubt and disposition. They are just giving you the rules of their capitalist engagement through codes. The Congo pacts criminalize and censor regional demographic data. Coding is the only way to go on about.

>>12790951

You’ll eventually know who really hates aids and who loves it. Because the aims change with outlook. And people realize they are just a buy off and others realize they are purchasers. The situation is that with strengthening techno-culture even those who love it begin to hate it. That’s if they really study the charts. Otherwise they are just ignorant, gimme personalities. Techno-culture is way too cruel even for their pleasure.

>>12790391
Fags made that shit, you are supposed to pay for the crap you do instead of blaming others for sticking your benis in poo

>>12790923
>>12790936
what the fuck am I reading

> my options are limited to pubmed and books
If you are truly this retarded while posting on the internet no one should ever help you. Honestly.

>>12792043
Look at that slampig

>>12790248
>Mostly because we have proven that the answer gives consistent numerical simulations.

Send a request to the journal for a notice to be added that the answer is wrong and therefore it is unknown why the simulations are consistent and well behaved. Someone will find the paper and find your mistake. I wrote a paper for my Masters, it did ok, up to 30 citations now, but I've got at least 100 e-mails about and more than a handfull of those requested that I clarify steps in one of the proof.

It will be retracted some day. And that retraction can either be career destroying or a minor setback. It might even be good for you if you request a full retraction. Lie and say you didn't see the mistake at publication, only after recently reviewing it. Inform all your co-authors of your intentions. Just don't take it to your grave, but also attempt to not destroy your career.

>>12792764
I assume OP is in maths or physics and from a central European country

>>12790295
>You've already decided to leave academia, so it's not even going to hurt you.

Yeah, nah, there is nothing the research community, including those in industry, hates more than liars and especially when dishonesty was used to get competative grants. OP _NEEDS_ to get ahead of this, if someone else finds out first he is done for. The best he could hope for is some low paid position at a midling who's HR team is too lazy to Google him. Don't believe me? Look at the retraction watch reports of researchers made toxic, they never find work again.

>>12793004
This. Just handwave some bullshit about this being found incorrect and publish a nee paper stating it is incorrect because blah blah blah.

>>12792972
Stick your head in deeper

>>12790311
do you?

0*inf = 0 lol

As what approaches infinity?

There's no difference between 0.999... and 1. They have the exact same value.

>>12790230
Ok, then from the definition of a limit 0.999..=1.

>>12796327

A

>>12793967
Physics Mommy

>>12796327 >>12796565
B in Physics
B in Linear Algebra
C in Calculus

Built for BBC

>>12790713
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNOusZLO7y4

those did exist

>>12796611
Will those kids grow up despising beauty?

>>12790038
Go to /jp/ fag

>>12790038
tfw oneironaut

>never had a wet dream
>rarely dream in general, the few I have are rarely coherent
I think it's over for me bros...

>>12790038
>visualize my waifu 15 minutes before bed
>have horrible heinous nightmares including but not limited to being skinned alive, being murdered by family members who cut my stomach open and pull my entrails out and dance in them as my vision fades and wake up from my dream but am actually still in a dream but I just dreamt I had a nightmare in my nightmare, am in an abandoned house with no lights that's super spooky and am chased by a scary looking psychopath demon, until I'm stabbed a million times.
Except one time I had a dream where I had sex, that was pretty school, but then I was killed by an evil puppet version of myself that wanted to wear my skin. That's when I was skinned alive.

>>12792501
win

>>12790007
Have sex

>>12790022
Why would you want the future shown in The Expanse anyways? The vast majority of humanity in this setting lives in very shitty conditions.

Also Elon Musk = Julies-Pierre Mao

hypothetically speaking for this to work you need to recycle every single organic compound; dead bodies need to be ground and put on soil before decomposing (bacteria too slow), shit must be treated and put on soil (bacteria too slow), uric acid must be broken into ammonia or something else and put in soil, minerals in piss, so many things. plants aren't going to magically fuse carbon into nitrogen and potassium

>>12790007
really good nuclear fusion or really good molecular assemblers could get us pretty close to self sustaining mars colonies. Really good fusion lets you brute force stuff by just using more power. Getting some rare ass element you need to make more fusion reactors? Fusion torch and mass spec dirt. This is impractical today because it takes a lot of power, but if you have really good, like really really fucking good fusion, then power is cheap enough to do this. With really good molecular assemblers you can carry an entire industrial base to Mars in very few rocket launches. Both of these are unlikely though and saying new tech will solve it without specifying which tech is NPC thinking like you have described.

OP is right an surely has an in-depth understanding of the engineering challenges required for offworld and cis-lunar sapce colonies.

>>12791812
>If you don’t love engineering you’ll never be a good engineer
no, a person who doesnt appreciate the craft and doesnt have the dedication is weeded out during university, theres a good reason why engineering courses have high dropout rates
only a person who is really into it will bother to invest the effort for forcing themselves through a plethora of reports and an arduous overloaded schedule
University in a not shit country when studying a non bullshit subject is a stress test to see who can handle it and who can not, much more so for actual engineers who constantly work under high pressure and under deadlines
its not for everyone
>you’ll never be a good engineer
no, being an engineer is about getting stuff done and doing so no matter what
having a smile on your face during that is an extra that makes it easier for your psyche

>>12791837
>I speak from personal experience
so do i
>At my last job the interns were a waste of time but we hired a few that became useful after a couple years
at every internship i had during university i got offered to stay afterwards and get paid as a sidejob
not every student has the ambition or gets an internship at a company they want, most just take the first best that they can get or simply dont have the options
>current job doesn’t hire anybody for hardware that doesn’t have 10 years of work experience or a PhD + 5
well if its something that requires actual experience then some shitter intern is not an option
inters dont really get to design anything that is actually sold to some customer
>It is a company that you’re very familiar with
ah?

>>12791841
>a person who doesnt appreciate the craft and doesnt have the dedication is weeded out during university
We passed on plenty of candidates that had fine grades but obviously didn’t have the interest. We hired one that we later regretted. I’m gonna be elitist here and say that if you didn’t graduate from a top university(say top 20ish) the programs don’t do a very good job weeding people out. There is a huge quality gap between a candidate from cal tech versus Ohio state

> no, being an engineer is about getting stuff done and doing so no matter what
That will get you to mediocre. But being good requires a depth of knowledge, intelligence and curiosity that someone who is just punching the clock will never get. But there are plenty of companies that make a business out of herding mediocre engineers

>>12791862
>I’m gonna be elitist here and say that if you didn’t graduate from a top university(say top 20ish) the programs don’t do a very good job weeding people out. There is a huge quality gap between a candidate from cal tech versus Ohio state
Strong doubt. We know all these programs are overseen by ABET in order to ensure some level of standardization, so in theory all these programs should be similar.
Just doing a quick search on Google, Georgia Tech has a 97% freshman retention rate and an 86% graduation rate.
Obviously one interpretation is that the quality of high school students is higher so they just pass everything.
Another interpretation is that the admin intentionally doesn't weed people out because they've already invested so much in the selection process.
It's the same situation where the Ivy League where many students will tell you that the hardest part by far is getting accepted and after that it's just a regular university experience.

>>12791862
>We passed on plenty of candidates that had fine grades but obviously didn’t have the interest
the mindset is also important, something that really cant be teached in Uni, but that has to be developed gradually by working on your own, figuring stuff out and solving problems
>I’m gonna be elitist here and say that if you didn’t graduate from a top university(say top 20ish) the programs don’t do a very good job weeding people out
here in Germany Unis do very well with that, at least in engineering
my uni has about 50% dropout rate for the EE programme that i do
>There is a huge quality gap between a candidate from cal tech versus Ohio state
well here people from technical universities are typically all competent, even those that come from other institutions are solid
maybe US should attempt to be a bit more meritocratic in their education system
>That will get you to mediocre
yes, most people like these just drop out or change their major
>But being good requires a depth of knowledge, intelligence and curiosity that someone who is just punching the clock will never get
sure, but one can only bet how big the benefit in productivity and overall work output really is
>plenty of companies make a business out of herding mediocre engineers
well not everyone can be a super high motivated genius that is also sociable and always productive
even a mediocre engineer will pull the cart, metaphorically speaking

>>12794811
>being against Marxism means you are a libertarian
Try again, faggot, and with an actual point next time.

>>12794690
I agree with the first three topics, just pointing it out.

>How families manage their private households is outside of the realm of Economics.
It may be outside of political econ, but not outside of economics. What I mean is that there is no price system in a household because the economic calculation problem is an informational problem; in small scales, information flows fast and there is no need to have a price system.

>Democracy
>Working well in large scale societies
Haha

The problem with communism as practiced in the Soviet Union and China was that it got biology dead wrong. Were it not for Lysenkoism those systems would still be holding over today. Capitalism only works because it is able to capture science through its public risk and private profit system. A market can be made for fairy dust, and if the economy depends on fairy dust it will fall apart. Scientists are needed to base products in the real world, and materially benefit people.

The ideal system for science to provide the most benefit would be to have total freedom of information, open source patents, copyleft, repair rights, and so on. Human discretion should also be limited as much as reasonably possible in favor of publicly verifiable randomness to ensure fairness.

>>12794211
Go back to school.

>>12792458
by their definitions someone without enough money for food could be living in “not extreme poverty” while a self reliant village without currency that feeds and shelters everyone would be living in extreme poverty regardless