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Your brain isn't wired for visualizing linear algebra intuitively. All you can hope for is eventually getting an intuition for the abstractions, but it's not like, say, classical mechanics, where the intuition is very visual.

It get's intuitive once you understand the fundamentals of algebra. Just give it time anon.

One thing i'd say is really non-intuitive are Fourier transformations

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>>9053381
I find Fourier transformations incredibly intuitive, but I can barely solve a system of linear equations

>>9052423
That book is what happens when you spend decades doing one thing and then you start glorifying that one thing, thinking it will be the next revolution.

I think we all do that. We all like to think that our field is the best field. I guess Wolfram was just rich enough to publish his drunken ramblings.

>>9052427
Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica are products that measure themselves with the top though, don't you think so?

Especially the Wolfram Language is something without comparison regarding its capabilities.

>>9052650
But his book is not about that. It is about how computer science is too cool for school and it is clear Wolfram only jerks CS that much because right now he is the top dog in that field right now.

Interesting, so far 40% of the users are phd students. I guess that proves /sci/ is full of genii.

>>9052392
>Drawing a conclusion after less than 6 voted
Wew lad

>>9052400
It seems like there are only very few people here that haven't gone to college

I hate liberals too.

Want to cuddle with a strong right wing guy?

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>>9049494
I'm left of center politically, so I wouldn't say that I blanket hate all liberals.

But sure I could use a cuddle.

>>9049487
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-you-find-word-moist-disgusting-according-science/

>>9046876
You see, OP. As a molecular biologist, it also amazes me. The simplest life forms are the ones that endure the most. It is quite the example of Occam's Razor. If primitive life forms adapt so easily, why would humans evolve into the first place? Darwin himself said that it is not the strongest nor the most intelligent that survives, but the one that adapts to nature the best. It is things like that which each day pull me closer to the realization we are the subjects of an intelligent design. As a scientist these creatures represent the proof of God.

>>9046957
It happens because they are R-type with multiple generations per year and so many offspring that a few mutations in every brood literally doesn't matter because only ~1/100 survives long enough to mate.

>>9046957
not really, it's mostly because they have shorter life times and have a lot of opposition. A horse or human isn't going to do much, given their domestic and safe life style combined with long lifespans. Not to mention it's obviously harder for complex traits to emerge so overall evolution is slow.

http://vixra.org/abs/1506.0055

>>9054184
>http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/courses/readers/K54.pdf

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>>9054184
First-order logic is the language of mathematics.
The easiest way to swallow the redpill (that I know of) is probably pic related.
Peter Smith seems to be quite good at bringing these kinds of ideas to non-specialists, in my experience (you can check out his blog "Logic Matters" for prepatory material if you need help bridging the gap).

neither degrees will teach you how to do a real job. The CS guy will be better prepared than the math guy, but both can succeed/fail based on their skillset.

>>9054058
>is a math degree more useful than an applied math degree

>>9054058
Generally speaking, CS degrees are easier than math degrees. This means that
> you learn less in a CS degree than a math degree
> you meet more people taking CS than math, increasing your networking opportunities

Given that any one who is [math]capable[/math] of doing a math degree is equally capable of reading math textbooks and learning the content in their own time via self-study, I'd go with CS if your goal is to get a good job as opposed to going into academia.

But be prepared to spend more time talking about math/CS with your profs than your fellow students.

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They are almost there.

Who knows?

What does it matter when we are number one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfYnvDL0Qcw

>>9053872

>go to sci for bio/chem threads
>math/phys threads have great advanced topics
>stuck responding to this crap

If you buy into the standard interpretations then apes remained in their native jungles after the climate change which resulted in african grasslands (I can't spell savana). This meant they were not selected for upright posture for predator avoidance and thus were not as free to use their hands to carry,grab, manipulate leading to further selective pressure on intelligence.

If you buy the alternative aqua ape theory, however, it is because apes did not go through the aquatic period that hominids did resulting in the supportive liquid environment which aided transition to bipedalism as has occured in proboscis monkey.

Can we get some higher quality bio/chem threads sci? Also sage.

>>9053754
no replies because /sci/ is 90% butthurt computer science that have no ammo to trash talk chemistry

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>>9053754
Everyone just watched breaking bad and wants to make meth

Real theoretical physics and chemistry are the only pure science left.

>>9053659
An ape

>>9053659
Where the rising ape meets the falling angel...

>>9053676
It could craft tools

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I choose electric charge. Where to begin...
See attached image

>>9053637
Holy fuck that's Rich Evans.

>>9053658
2/10
not allowed to use pictures or other outside assistance + not understandable at all.

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>>9053442
and flat earth
and moon hoax
and god threads
and gravity is fake
and everything else in the pic

Daily reminder that 'go back to /pol/' spammers are a worse problem for /sci/ than /pol/ crossposters.

>>9053450
>>>/pol/

nice try satan

>>9053461

Well what else would make the planet colder or inhabitable that isn't the next ice age? All I can think is the Red Dwarf

>>9053470
bomb the yellowstone caldera with big bomb

or does that just effect us

>>9053082
666
god damn it a thread died for this drivel

sqrt(-1) because just like him it's imaginary

80085

The surface tension wouldn't be enough to keep that much water up. It would all just fall out

>>9053059
assuming the water magically stayed up there and you exhaled then you would fall out.

>>9053067
It's not really about surface tension.