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>>9088319
>Engineers, do you actually use calculus regularly (or even at all?) or do you have computer programs that take care of all that for you?

i do use it very rarely and when i do i only do it once. then i just code it into excel or matlab or something and never do it again.

>>9088356
Not too shabby of a model, but the specular mapping needs work.

>>9088257
>Take LSD
>Abstract geometric shapes fly through my mind
>Dream up complex structures interacting in abstract mathematical ways, mapping simple random inputs to pattern rich, dense outputs

>Listen to abstract electronic music
>Have mini epiphanies where I, in tiny instants, formulate a generative synthesizer that could create music such as this with little human input
>Generalize that to also creating art in a similar way
>Generalize that to also creating video game environments in a similar way
>Make the scary realization that our universe might be one of these
>Think about stoner tier philosophical concepts like the simulation hypothesis, the insides of black holes, asymptotic flicker flash rates and their effect on the experience of time in the entity they are associated with, etc.
>Wonder what it's like to be a dolphin
>World engulfed by water, click to transmit messages
>Do they feel frustrated and unable to communicate effectively
>Are there any species unable to communicate to the level of their internal intelligence and none of them are aware that the others are just as smart as them but they're trapped, unable to tell each other?
>Or would they formulate their own language from hand signals or something?
>Wonder whether reality is purely a linguistic construct

>Go on for hours, eventually get bored and have a bad trip and eat a lot of food then get depressed for a week

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>>9088269
Also, I can't decide whether psychedelics are truly the philosopher's stone and one of the most monumental pharmacological discoveries in human history with indescribably vast potential impacts on psychology, philosophy, and some day science

...Or just a drug that none of us should take...

>>9088272
i honestly don't know, it's just sad that those chemicals aren't further explored by the scientific community, they have potential to lift humanity up

>>9088233
shit dude that guy in the yellow shirt is me. delete this.

Why does anyone even go to open days

shit dude that chad off screen is me. delete this.

Yes.

>>9087960
Both take computational power that doesn't exist yet. That's why my life's work is going to be on superconductors and improving silicon motherboards. In 5 years I'll be able to make every geneticist bow down and sniff my sphincter

>>9087960
so you think society will motivate sentient life while there are some people who even treat machines like their first born It will be a problem no matter what but I am in the favor of
sentient life due to it having the ability to improve and evolve

And what is that quantity?

Depth of cortical hierarchy

>>9087873
>15 chimp brain be gooder as human brain

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>>9087868
Well Terrence Tao did it.
Able to solve Differential equations when 10yo.
Gold medal in International Math Olympics when 13yo.
BSc & MSc I'm Math when 16yo.
PhD in Math at Princeton with just 21yo.
Professor at UCLA in May with just 24yo.
& Math is the hardest degree.
We know that for few people like Tao it's definitely possible.
But we don't know if it's possible for me mortals like us, for the most STEM students & graduates.

>>9087868
I do it every semester...
I procrastinate until its almost over, then work really hard ad mamas to pass.
I wish I could use this"power" to learn more stuff in advance

>>9087909
You could try to find someway to speed up the graduation & get faster into Grad School.

>>9087856
If God exists, why wouldn't we be able to understand it ? I don't get this viewpoint.

>>9087856
please take your /r9k/-tier autistic bullshit away from this board. discuss actual science and math.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois#Final_days

>Early in the morning of 30 May 1832, he was shot in the abdomen, abandoned by his opponents and seconds, and was found by a passing farmer. He died the following morning at ten o'clock in the Cochin hospital (probably of peritonitis), after refusing the offices of a priest.

>His last words to his younger brother Alfred were:

>Don't cry, Alfred! I need all my courage to die at twenty.

>>9087668
entirely depends on your professor and school

Take Physics 1 and find out

>>9087668
Forget most of what you know about motion because it's probably wrong. Physics 1 is either really easy or you won't get it at all. If your professor is bad at explaining things it'll be annoying as hell.

Because its common sense, also the jews kill your relatives if you say otherwise.

because unless her bodyfat is super low, most of the testosterone will be aromatized to estrogen

that's why so many ftm people are mongoloid freaks- gotta start when body fat is below 12% for it actually work well enough and that's incredibly difficult for biological women.

>>9087573
if you have to chop your dick off to win at a sport then you're doing it wrong.

also who the hell cares about sports except mongoloids anyways?

Fuck off.

>>9087484
Your neck is tight. Get a massage.

>>9089521
not op but that could be my problem. thanks.

Every single bait question /sci/ falls for on a daily basis.

>>9087413
Close and open your eyes. There you go, that what infinity feels like after you die.

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Brainlet questions are usually characterized by being heavily loaded.

>What is the meaning of life?

This question implicitly claims that "life has a meaning," but the person make no effort in showing why the claim would be true. Thus the people, who ask questions like this, are just looking for affirmation that life is not completely meaningless.

>What happens after you die?

This question implicitly claims that "something happens after you die." In this context, "death" no longer stands for "you cease to exist", but rather "you teleport to different place and perhaps also transform into different body". Thus the people who ask questions like this are either A) incapable of abstract thought, or B) afraid of dying, and thus want to soften the definition of "death".

I've seen a lot of bioiformatics data published recently and it's really bothering me. This Kevin H.M. Kuo fellow and his collegues are thieves.

I have been publishing the same data for years and have proof on several forums. I have mentioned this multiple times on /sci/ too.

It's fucking obvious and I'm glad it's finally published so I can gain recognition through another's effort.

But then again I probably influenced the publisher so really I'm the mastermind.

Believe me or not, I have proof on multiple forums and date/time stamps.

>>9087495
Those cunts.

>>9087495
not very nice of them
maybe write to them? or talk to someone at your uni, or your countries academy of sciences, dunno

I love the national treasure movies

>>9087365
It's more of an art than science, actually.

>>9087365
It's Mathematics/Computer Science.

>>9087300
t. Wage slave

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Gooks are truly disgusting.

>>9087300
Nope. Sci used to be for nerds. I remember when this was an interesting board. Now it's been ruined by angsty undergrads, idiots discussing IQ, race bait threads and flat earthers. The only way to make /sci interesting again would be heavy-handed mods and containment boards. At the moment it's just an extension of /pol and /b...pretty much a waste of time for anyone actually interested in science and math.

>>9087263
This is very interesting OP, thanks for the links

>>9087280
That's alright.
I'd only just learnt this myself today and was pleasantly surprised.

I wish I had animal friends