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>2017
>Not an expert in Pepsi's quantum relativism

Look at this fine artice.
https://jimedwardsnrx.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/pepsi_gravitational_field.pdf
You have no excuse /sci/
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>>9032646
pepsi sounds funny when you say it like bepsi
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>>9032646
This is some high level corporate autism.
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>>9032646
>symmetrical energy fields in balance
oh fuck me. that's good.

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How do I fix my habit of making simple mistakes? This has been a problem that has haunted me all my life and I'm sick of it. Im in my second year of uni and I keep fucking up my maths because I do the stupidest shit.
Im not sure how it happens honestly, I do everything slow (overthinking is my fatal flaw...), but if I make a mistake I just won't notice it and it's really annoying. I always get all the complicated shit right but miss points for simple stuff all the time. I have a bad case of ADD, but I can focus on math and science related topics no problem so Im not sure if that's it...

Did any of yyou brainlets have to overcome this problem? It may sound retarded but I literally can't help it
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learn the material properly
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>>9032469
Probably the most sound advice
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>>9032469
>>9032494
something can be learned properly the first time it's taught.

what you both mean is "learn the material well", which is the answer to the OP's question

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what if intelligence cannot be adequately quantified because it's a purely qualitative non-material substance?
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then we'll have to just work with a decent enough approximation that provides predictive ability
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Sounds like something a brainlet would say
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>>9032105
>what if intelligence cannot be adequately quantified

It never could. You can only quantify similarities in psychological projection.

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>you will never have actually good professors and be around people who actually care about what they're studying instead of assholes who just take shortcuts to get a passing grade

Anyone else regretting not even attempting to get into a top 10 school, even though they probably could have?
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>>9031929
I am not in a top 10 school, far from that, and there is still people like that here.

And it shoudn't be hard to find those people. I mean, would a rational human being put 4 years of their life into something they don't care? Sounds like madness to be. Must suck to be in Uganda, OP. I donate to Africa every now and then so hopefully you have gotten some of that.
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I am at a top 100 school/top 50 school (depending on ranking) and my professors seem fairly dedicated to their research even though none of them has made it.
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I used to give heavily accented professors who could barely understand anything back in undergrad a pass, reasoning that students should just have to deal with it and work around it.
Looking back on it I've come to realize students are getting shafted by this bullshit and should be tearing campuses down brick by brick for hiring barely intelligible foreign professors.

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Can someone please explain to me "The Theory of Everything?"
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>>9031818
You mean the movie? There is no theory of everything. It refers to the belief that there should exist and consistent formalism to describe all natural phenomena, but such a thing has never been created and not everyone believes it is possible. I liked the movie.
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you are a bunch of connected balls surrounded by a bunch of balls some connected some not some not even balls even tho they behave like balls sometimes

then you have the way the balls emit other balls* based on how high they are, and how a ball that is high will emit balls* until it it not high, and when the emitted balls* come into contact with balls that aren't as high as the ball that originally emitted, the ball* is absorbed and the absorbing ball gets a little higher.

i think that covers some areas at least. maybe i got the very last part wrong and balls will always absorb balls* no matter how high they are
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>>9032113
That's stupid. Why does enternal nothingness sound good to you?

Why does coiling a wire increase the strength of the magnetic field? Is it simply because the magnetic forces of all the coils overlap with one another?
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>>9031817
If you just have a wire, and apply pressure to the top, it will bend easily. However, if you coil that wire you will get a spring, which is much stronger as it is harder to deform. So it only makes sense that a magnetic field from a spring would be greater than that of a wire, as the spring is stronger than the wire
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>>9031817
electromagnetic field satisfies superposition
a ring of current produces a magnetic field aligned with the axis of the ring
by stacking a bunch of rings together, you add the fields
coiling the wire is pretty much like stacking a bunch of rings up
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>>9031968
This sounds like what I am asking but what the fuck is >>9031841 talking about it?

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>am a huge homebody who loves being at home in alabama
>leave and complete first year of college at uchicago
>get a "research position" in a lab on campus over the summer where im getting paid well
>have literally no work to do because the people im working for are currently out of the country and never reply to emails
>dont know when they will be back
>been here for two weeks
>paying out the ass for my apartment, food
>miss my parents, friends, girlfriend, and home so much it hurts
>only had two weeks at home between end of school and coming back

I feel like such an idiot and a fool. I was only left very simple and easy tasks for programming a gui that i've already completed and not i jsut wander around campus all day and look at my laptop because i dont wanna go back to my apartment because ill just get too sad. Why the fuck did i come back to chicago so early when i have no work to do and sped all my time alone and sad? I feel like such a fool for not making sure they would be here and asking what the exact work i would be doing. I could fucking code this gui in the comfort of my home in alabama, except not weighed down by lonliness, surrounded by my dogs and family. I feel like I'm wasting so much money and i honestly dont think the small amount of money i will net at the end of the summer is worth being miserable like this.

I don't know what to do. Living alone is hard.
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Party up motherfuckeeeeer yea!
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Youre still getting paid yes? then fuck you.

Maybe go outside and make a friend with your getting paid for doing no work.
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Tinder

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So, here I am, social sciences student who's gotten a bit sick with being book dumb and tries to figure out some basic physics for the sake of self-education. Having gotten over some basics, I got to radio technology, and stumped over how FM works (I know, what a moron).

So, if I understand it correctly, we have an audio signal we need to transmit. This audio signal has its own frequency and amplitude. In an FM transmitter, an oscillator generates a carrier wave with a constant frequency. It is then fed into a modulator which smushes the carrier wave into higher frequency wherever there's a peak in audio amplitude, and stretches it into lower frequency wherever there's a drop in audio amplitude. Am I getting it right so far?

So, then, question 1). How would the modulator change the carrier wave according to changes in frequency of the audio signal? So far, I got how it changes the freq of carrier based on the signal's amplitude. I guess it would just smush or stretch the carrier faster of slower?..

But then, frequency itself is, basically, how many changes happen in a period of time. So, if higher amplitude signal is encoded into higher frequency FM wave, would that mean that higher amplitude, higher frequency signal would be encoded into even higher frequency FM wave? But that sounds just stupid and I'm sure I don't understand something being a dumb bitch I am. Faster =/= higher frequency, right?..

Then, question 2). Entire broadcast plane is basically EM chatter on all frequencies that range between, what, 88 - 108 MHz?.. If FM encodes information into frequency changes, that would mean it would require more bandwidth then an AM wave, right? AM wave can oscillate at its given carrier freq and that's it, but for a radio station playing music on, say, 90 MHz, the actual bandwidth of its signal would be 90 MHz + whatever is its min and max deviation in frequency (those are sidebands, if I'm correct?)
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So, question 3) is, how the hell does an FM radio even work? We tune our radio onto a specific "channel", i.e. specific frequency. Let's say we listen to some Bumfuck County Radio that broadcasts on 90 MHz. But the receiver actually doesn't listen to whatever's going on these 90 MHz, it listens to whatever happens around that frequency, right? The signal itself is not on carrier, it's on sidebands. So the frequency we tune our radio to actually has no meaningful info in it, it's just a reference point? Instead of listening what's oscillating at 90 MHz, it listens what happens at, say, 85-90 and 90-95, and converts that into audio?

Sorry if all that sounds very self-evident and I just seem to be a complete retard. That's because I am in terms of natural sciences, but I've at least resolved to do something about it, if only for a bit of self-respect.
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social """science"""
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>>9031113
I know, right. Too late to change the major, though.

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Is math related to science?
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No. Science is about understanding. You don't need math for that. In university they force you to learn calculus but only because autistic people designed the curriculum. Nobody needs calculus. Teaching calculus only leads to students autistically calculating their formulas without understanding what's going on. I prefer to do science instead of math.
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>>9032029
0/10 apply yourself
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Science is literally math's bitch, science needs us but math can get by without science

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This thing keeps cropping up on facebook (with various symbols), and 99.999% of the `answers' to it are always wrong (they do not see the square root involved). How thick is the average facebook user? Is it a joke on them tha people keep posting it?
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Solution is obviouslly
Where $D$ is a drink, $B$ is a burger and $F$ is fries:

$$ D + D + D = 30 $$
so $D$ == 10
$$ D + B + B = 20 $$
so $B$ == 5
$$ B + FF + FF = 9 $$
so $FF + FF = 4$ therefore $FF=2$ so $F=\pm \sqrt{2}$

Onto the final equation
$$B + F \times D = \; ? $$

As $F$ is $\pm \sqrt{2}$

there are two valid answers

$ 5 + \sqrt{2} \times 10 $ and $ 5 - \sqrt{2} \times 10 $

So the answer is either 19.142 or -9.142.
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Where D is a drink, B is a burger and F is fries:

[math] D + D + D = 30 [/math]
so D == 10
[math]D + B + B = 20 [/math]
so B == 5
[math] B + FF + FF = 9 [/math]
so [math]FF + FF = 4$ therefore [math]FF=2[/math] so [math]F=\pm \sqrt{2}[/math]

Onto the final equation
[math]B + F \times D = \; ? [/math]

As F is [math]\pm \sqrt{2}[/math]

there are two valid answers
[math]
5 + \sqrt{2} \times 10 [/math]and [math] 5 - \sqrt{2} \times 10 [/math]

So the answer is either 19.142 or -9.142.
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>>9030642
1 burger + 1 chips * 1 drink = 60

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Was just soldering something and accidentally inhaled a cloud of solder fumes. It's 60% tin, 40% lead, flux core.

How fucked am I?
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>>9030068
Not too much. Despite all the scare tactics the human body is way more resilient than you think. It's only a problem if you do it regularly and long term.
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>>9030068
Stop being a pussy. You just lost your solder fume virginity. Today we drink in your name, welcome to the club, son.
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go to the hospital as quick as you can while you still have the time, anon. i suspect aspergers but i'm not sure if it's in its terminal stage yet.

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>Simple thought experiment here, would appreciate your input
>Assume the Earth's Crust is impenetrable
>Assume there is a small (also impenetrable) boulder on the surface which constantly gains mass from nowhere.
>What happens?
>Does the boulder reach a point where it stops applying more pressure to the Earths crust and actually gets 'lighter' and simply floats off into space since it cannot merge with the Earth?
>How much mass are we talking then at this point for this to occur?
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>>9029805
no... it starts to pull the Earth into itself, until it is so massive that it rips the Earth apart and the Earth merges with it.
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>>9029811
But in this experiment, they are two indestructible bodies. I know none of this possible I'm just seeing where it leads to - gravity wise.
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>>9029818
They're impenetrable not indestructible, brainlet.

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Megalania was driven extinct when Aboriginals burned down all of Australia's forests.

True or False?
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>>9029184
Fire-stick farming was the practice of Indigenous Australians who regularly used fire to burn vegetation to facilitate hunting and to change the composition of plant and animal species in an area.

Oh wow. What a bunch of retarded assholes
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>>9029200
You think they were the only ones who did this? Indians did this as well.
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>>9029184
Nah they might have died out on their own. You got any pubs to support that? All I'm turning up when I google are vidya gaem references(Even on google scholar what the hell).

>>9029200
>>change the composition of plant and animal species in an area.
we do the same when we build cities today.

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can long periods of depression and/or stress make someone lose IQ? i feel like my attention, focus, mental speed and acuity and problem solving skills have all deteriorated severely as a result of these past few years.
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These are all symptoms of depression, yes. Generally speaking long-term stress and related are risk factors of minor immune suppression, which also gives these symptoms, along with fatigue. Just like depression, too.
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>>9029016
Are these changes permanent even if I do manage to get better in the future?
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>>9029021
No. They're not permanent if it's depression. Even less so if it's just e.g. magnesium deficiency. Ironically, high doses of magnesium [buy lactate] are recorded to have a chance of helping with both.

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I'm just looking for honest opinions. For most of my life, for reasons I've never entirely been able to figure out, I've pretty well sucked at math. I was always able to pass the classes, but it never seemed to come as naturally to me as it did for the "good at math" crew. I'm in uni now, and I had to drop my calc class because I was having too much trouble with it.

Here's the thing though: on all those standardized tests that we took in hs, I always scored in the upper 90th percentiles. People seem to think I'm smart, pegging me as a "science guy" without me bringing anything up related to it, and commenting on how smart I seem.

But if I actually am smart, shouldn't I be able to pass calculus? I feel like there's something missing here
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>>9028091
>Is it possible to be smart and suck at math?
No.
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>>9028091
math's got nothing to do with intelligence. absolutely nothing.
/thread
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you should go back and review your algebra, geometry, or even further back then that. A good place to do that is kahn academy.

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