Am I doomed to life as a brainlet if I was unable to solve 80% of the problems in Lang's Basic Mathematics that began in "prove" or "show"? I read through each chapter and every example problem, can do the plug and chug just fine, but more often than not I'd be having to copy the answers out of the back of the text for anything that involved me having to come up with something on my own.
It's sort of depressing, especially considering it took me half a year to work through it. I'm wondering if this experience is normal or am I just below average IQ?
Be grateful, ignorance is bliss.
>>9085994
The right to math is one of the most fundamental human rights as it affects the vital elements of an individual’s intellectual freedom. Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. take it easy on the exhale as well.
>>9085994
To expand:
I made sure to re-read every chapter and spend hours searching the internet until I had a good understanding of the material, but when faced with something like pic related where I have to prove something on my own, I have no idea where to start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg
Well, what do you think was going on then and there?
Sun going stormy and magnety things happening here. Very flashy but no major damage as iphones weren't available yet (microwaves fry iphones).
>>9085682
Chariots of the Gods
>>9085682
A Blackbird accidentally made a detour into the past.
Does genius level IQ come with a sprinkle of autism or does just the right amount of autism make a genius level IQ?
Autism is brain maldevelopment that very seldom yields a superior configuration, in a few aspects, that it otherwise would have. It's brain damage, just like Rainman had agenesis of his corpus callosum, something that generally leaves someone very low functioning across the board.
Differing brain configurations != autism. Differing behavior from the norm != autism / mental illness / whatever mechanical "problem". Genius is simply a system that had the proper starting state, and was shaped by the correct signals at a given point in time. There is no, inherent, connection to the other shit.
If I had a reaction folder, this is where I'd use a pepe ENOUGH image. Seriously, for fucking fuck's sake already, shape up.
>>9085645
>Genius is simply a system that had the proper starting state, and was shaped by the correct signals at a given point in time
>humans are just machines without free will
>>9085668
The concept of "free will" only makes sense if you pre-assume the existence of some magical unmeasurable force which controls your body from some unknown place in an unknown way like some marionette.
So far all evidence shows that everything the mind does is purely mechanical and following the laws of physics.
If you have some spiritual beliefs about a soul then please take them to /x/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1IcXuK0FwE
I make math i dont need no degree
what a waste of time
what can you even do with a math degree for real?
Obviously besides the niche occupations you have no chance at landing
>>9084056
statistics, cs, actuarial sciences, finance, industrial engineering.
you probably don't have a degree in anything or do anything beyond differential calculus so it's okay.
>so you want to get a PhD in mathematics
Where the hell did you get this idea? Who are you? Why are you talking to me?
What is the dark souls of science and math?
>>9083662
Hardest Undergraduate Course in World is the Harvard Math55.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_55
A 2-semester long course in
Honors Abstract Algebra (Math 55a)
&
Honors Real and Complex Analysis (Math 55b)
>
For the class of 2009 the Prof. Scott Duke Kominers said:
>We had 51 students the 1st day, 31 students the 2nd day, 24 for the next 4 days, 23 for 2 more weeks, and then 21 for the rest of the 1st semester.
>
The Hardest Graduate Course may be either:
(1) Advanced String Theory.
(2) Algebraic Geometry, a portion the math behind String Theory
The Physicist Edward Witten Mastered both String Theory & Algebraic Geometry with His massive brain.
>>9083662
Try to answer the following:
How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?
>>9083684
>string theory
More like meme theory, amiright lads?
I purposefully managed to slow down my brain to stop feeling toothaches. But now I noticed that I cannot concentrate on learning and memorizing anything.
How did you do it?
>>9083157
He went to the doctor and still feels dizzy from the narcosis.
What? Why would you do that? I thought my method of getting a hammer and knocking the fucking thing out was crazy.
Ok, so let's have a comprehensive thread about transgender and transexuality. So far there are no registered information (biological that I know of) that makes an individual the same sex as another person. If I'm in the wrong here the thread becomes a discussion about studies which is dull but at least we would have a better closure.
The fact that one believes he/she is on the wrong sex is not supported by reason but by social and emotional status. It's the diference between reason and finnality.
In reasoning where we search for the why, there is no good awnser to it and can be proven false.
In finality where we search the what for, there are reasonnable proof that shows everyones transexuality is in fact possible and healthy.
Which brings me to my next problem. I had conversations with transexuals and although my experience is narrow, it seems a majority of them are perfectly healthy BUT not worth ignoring that a good portion was depressed even though they already preceeded with hormone treatment and cirurgy.
What does /sci/ think? Is transgender proven by any source? Is at a mental ilness?
>>9083059
It's a desire. They desire to act, be treated, and interface a certain way within their overall social ecology. They feel so alien in their traditional gendered role, or are so poorly treated, they retreat into the delusion that if everyone's behavior is so polarized they must in fact BE the other sex. The body, as a concept, becomes the source of their problems in their mind.
Gender may or may not correlate with more common hard underlying biological biases. Some people might be born biased towards desires and a value system that clusters around the one of the other sex.
They're cripplingly miserable and suffering existential issues. Therein it becomes a framework of delusional ideas layered around strong emotions. "Mental illness". Helping them mutilate their bodies is not the answer. You cannot become the other sex. Post surgery outcomes are likely poor and would reveal similar symptoms as they had on presentation.
>>9083059
>Is at a mental ilness?
yes, and a severe one at that. considering it normal and encouraging the behavior only makes it worse i.e. what society is doing right now - and it's why most trannies end up offing themselves.
My sister is transgender (she wants to be a boy) and she hasn't transitioned yet (she's 17).
What can I do? What's the best /sci/ approach? what's best for her?
Who here has a verified high IQ, but a low university GPA which makes you like a brainlet on paper and thus preventing you admissions from a top PhD program? If so, what can you do to reify it?
>>9082379
>implying IQ = Good GPA
The only thing you need for a good GPA assuming you're a normal functioning human being is a good work ethic. Seen literal dyslexic spergs perfecting scoring his tests because he has a non-existent social life and works like a rice nigger.
>>9082381
This doesn't help when you're already a senior and/or graduated and looking to get into graduate school.
IQ means nothing by itself.
For instance, imagine if Brock Lesnar got into a car accident and became quadriplegic. Now, he would still know his fighting techniques and have all this muscles and the reach advantage. But he would still lose to any healthy person in a fight.
Similarly, GPA tells that a person _is_ capable to the theoretical aspects of his field, whereas IQ tells that a person is _potentially_ capable.
https://www.space.com/37668-spacex-first-falcon-heavy-launch-in-november.html
>SpaceX's new megarocket, the massive Falcon Heavy, will make its launch debut in November, according to the company's founder and CEO Elon Musk.
*will It fly
fuck
It better fly. I don't want to have to endure another year of them repairing another blown up launch site. If it wants to blow up, let it do it when it's already flying.
I just wonder just how interchangeable the Falcon 9 booster and Falcon heavy boosters are.
From an economic perspective it makes sense only needing to manufacture one type of booster rather than 2. It drives cost down.
But Musk said they required a bunch of extra hardware.
> assume the two lines extended meet opposite the side of which the interior angles have a sum less than two right angles
> because a set of interior and exterior angles are supplementary the sum of the interior and exterior angles must be the same as the sum of two right angles
> by the transitive property it is clear that on the side which the sum of the interior angles are less than two right angles the sum of the exterior angles must be greater than the sum of two right angles
> in each of the intersections the exterior angle of one side must be equal the interior angle of the other side
> by the transitive propertys it is clear that the sum of the interior angles on the side opposite the side of which the interior angles have a sum less than two right angles must be greater than the sum of two right angles
> because the three lines are distinct they must form a triangle when they intersect
> however this cannot happen due to the fact that the sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to the sum of two right angles which has already been exceeded by the interior angles of assumed to be intersecting side
> therefore euclid btfo
>have plane geometry problem
>frog post instead of using a diagram
>>9072573
the axiom in the book didnt have a picture so i assumed it wasnt necessary
>>9072478
They can intersect on the other side
>trannys can take testosterone and hormones willy nilly
>I can't take testosterone as a beta
WHAT THE FUCK
explain this you geeks
>>9089882
You actually can, /pol/. Go see a doctor and get a prescription. Any man with testosterone deficiency can get it and looking at all the cuck shit in /pol/ it seems that you are all eligible for at least a full ton of testosterone.
Ever tried just lifting or is that too much effort?
I feel like submissive men shouldn't exist. Yet they have, for millennia. How come?
>>9086808
Jews.
>>9086808
Because betas aren't a threath to alphas. That way alphas don't have to drive them away, thus allowing human civilization to flourish
>>9086814
Where do beta males come from?
> tfw I'm an engineer and a mathematician
>>9086573
>tfw when I'm a gay and straight person
Choose one
>>9086648
OP's not a faggot but a bisexual.
6
What's inside soldier's DNA?
>>9086459
nucleotides
Loyalty
Mako poisoning.
What's more important in math?
>Conceptually understanding math concepts at a symbolic and visual level
>Understanding how math concepts relate to each other
>Being able to manually work out computations based on math concepts
>Being able to prove math concepts
>>9086400
2=4>3>1
>>9086480
Wait, switch 3 and 1 and that's it.
>>9086400
3 and 4 are very important, but are not very useful if you dont have 1 and 2.
Similarly you can't go very far if all you have are 1 and 2