I'm starting a PhD in Mathematics a few months from now. But something is bothering me. The last 3 PhD students in the group have apparently dropped off the radar - no normiebook, email address or linkedin. Virtually zero online presence
Even my professor has no idea.
Am I to assume they killed themselves after graduating because they couldn't find a job? I've heard PhD students have it pretty bad on job prospects compared to freshly minted undergrads.
>>8999960
working for the cia probably
>>8999964
I've read their theses from the college libary's archive. It was written in Microsoft Word and graphs were made in Excel. I'm not even joking.
Maybe they found jobs and dropped their online presence to focus on work.
Haha, just kidding. They're totally fucked.
How do we solve the hard problem? Can it be solved?
>>8999868
You mean the jewish question ?
>hard problem
>>>/x/
>>8999868
if the snek eats itself does it disappear?
Who knows some good books on our old adversary?
>>8999505
How many books have been written on the subject since the whole Gravitational waves detection thing recently? The most recent one happened on the first of this month.
I think maybe scientific papers may be the best source for info, unless you are looking for a picture book. Check google scholar.
https://scholar.google.com/
Remember to play with he settings for the searches.
Don't fall for the relativity meme.
It is clearly Judenphysik.
PROOF:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Counterexamples_to_Relativity
>>8999505
I quite liked Zee's "Einsteins Gravity In a Nutshell". It takes a variational approach which my autism greatly appreciates. People often recommend Shultz, but I'm not a huge fan desu. There's Hobson et al. "General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists". For a more in depth look at some calculations "A relativists toolkit" is pretty good, but it's not really a general reference. Beyond that I've heard good things about Wald, but I've never used it myself so can't really comment, also there's Gravitation by Meisner, Thorn, and Wheeler, again I've not read it myself, but it's definitely on my list of books I'm going to buy in the future.
Do you /sci/entists believe in anything? Religion, probably not; No, I mean ideas.
>do you believe in anything that can't be proven logically
Do you believe that the world exists to be used by humans?
Do you believe that happiness is the goal of life?
Do you believe in good and bad?
Do you believe that humanity is a force for good?
I don't believe in anything. Not even good or bad.
>>8999250
>Do you believe that the world exists to be used by humans?
No, there is no purpose.
>Do you believe that happiness is the goal of life?
No, it's a potential byproduct.
>Do you believe in good and bad?
No. However, I'm supposing you mean morality when you say this.
>Do you believe that humanity is a force for good?
No, humanity isn't a force nor is it inherently good or bad.
What are you trying to work out with these questions?
"Ideas of reference and delusions of reference describe the phenomenon of an individual's experiencing innocuous events or mere coincidences and believing they have strong personal significance. It is "the notion that everything one perceives in the world relates to one's own destiny."
Imagine if people realized one of the core parts of religion was some watered down symptom of mental illness.
>>8999253
It's not even watered down though. But almost anything is and can be a symptom of mental illness.
>>8998921
In a few months, that should be a fully formed vagina. I'll be waiting to try it out.
that's a muslim's cunt
>>8998921
SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION. Like right fucking now.
>quantum computing
Is this a meme? Give me the quick theoretical rundown on quantum computing.
bumping my thread. so we have something like an entangled system in a very large number of superpositions, each representing a different state of a turing machine solving the same problem. am i getting somewhere?
You cannot appreciate quantum computing without basic understanding of linear algebra, statistics, and quantum theory (formerly known as ``mechanics''). Any ``rundown'' would be wasted on you.
>>8998291
Basically this. Linear algebra in particular. But quantum computers, if pulled off, would be revolutionary. Database search in root(n) time. Integer factoring in polynomial time. Next level shit.
Okay, I want you /sci/entists to answer something. See, I myself am a Yropoor. East-South, Yuropoor. So my Unis work differently than the US ones. But since I've been reading./watching/consuming USBased entertainment forever, I want you to clear up something for me. How do the Unis work there?
From what I've seen and read through the net, and correct me if I'm wrong... you can just... apply to a Uni, and if you get in you get to... choose your subjects? Like, there are no mandatory ones? You can photography class & physics? Also, do you have Semesters or Years? Are tests just Multiple Choice? What is the GPA and how is it computed? Can you do community stuff for extra credit?
It might be typical for you, but our Unis work very differently, so I'd just like to know how this whole thing works. Here's how ours work:
>you can only get into a specific branch
>you can't choose your classes>everything is mandatory
>each year has two semesters
>each semester is about 3 months
>each semester has about 3 or 4 new classes plus 1 continuation
>we get the textbooks 2 months before finals
>each textbook is about 1000pgs
>most subjects are thrown away after one semester and you never use the knowledge again
>then you move to a new subject and do the same thing
This isn't a "it's so hard for meeeee" thread, I'm just legitimately curious to know how things work there, and I'd rather ask actual people than look at websites of Unis.
Thanks anons.
>>8997549
Northen Yuropoor here wondering the same thing. Someone please respond to these questions ASAP!!
>>8997557
Also it would seem, that people get into uni, then so their thing and after that they go to grad school..? Here we do all of our uni time at the same place (in some cases people do their bachelor some place and their master a different place), but in american movies it seems a bit like this is not the case. Someone please explain this.
And is there a difference between a college and a university?
>>8997562
Same. There are tons of things about US Unis that we see through entertainment, and to me at least, they seem like a goddamn Paradise of some sorts.
Who are the worst "scientist" frauds?
Richard Lynn, Andrew Wakefield, Gilles-Éric Séralini and Samuel Hahnemann come to mind.
>>8996348
>Richard Lynn
Not a fraud. Sorry your jimmies are rustled SJW.
Stop trying to astroturf.
>>8996348
>Who are the worst "scientist" frauds?
all the climate "scientists"
What are some canonical defenses of pure mathematics a la Hardy's "A Mathematicians Apology"?
I'm a reasonably advanced undergraduate. I've taken the holy undergraduate triumvirate of analysis, algebra, topology and taken a graduate course in algebra. I've also done some research with professors and am in the process of trying to publish a not-so-sophisticated paper.
Increasingly, I'm worried about the motivation of serious mathematicians. I got into this gig because I thought it was the pursuit of some transcendent truth. But what I've found is that while professors often provide lip service to math as a pursuit of transcendent truth, their actual motivation is entertainment. One professor I was working with put it in the starkest terms. When he was talking to me about his recent work, he said,
>It's great! This new subfield has so many different open questions that I have enough problems to work on until I die!
As if the goal of mathematics was to fill up your free time, not some higher understanding.
So where can I find a defense of mathematics as a pursuit of truth rather than as a way of entertainment?
I've found that Terance Tao provides very cogent advice on many different aspects of mathematics on his wordpress, but unfortunately, I haven't seen him tackle this largest of issues: Why study higher mathematics at all? Does anyone know if he addresses this somewhere?
>>8995955
> mathematics as a pursuit of truth
something something godel something something
>But what I've found is that while professors often provide lip service to math as a pursuit of transcendent truth, their actual motivation is entertainment.
What's bad about entertainment?
The sad part, the real redpill, is that a major reason is the hope for fame.
(That's true for all academics.)
>As if the goal of mathematics was to fill up your free time, not some higher understanding.
I don't quite see the difference.
But to a large extent, I'm a formalist and I don't believe in any strong sense of
>truth
Men choose rules and play games.
(And if you consider ALL possible game rule, you're moreover rewarded that some mirror natural processes, and thus there are some applications.)
Extreme weather conditions in north Germany leave people baffled:
http://www.severe-weather.eu/recent-events/severe-thunderstorm-outbreak-in-germany-june-22-2017/
Some anons from other boards hinted that these storm clouds are actually Morning Glory Clouds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Glory_cloud
What does /sci/ think? Is that assumption correct or is it a different type of phenomenon?
>>8990759
It's just a thunderstorm. Get over it.
Redpill me on sleep, /sci/
When you sleep you actually wake up
>>8990352
hearty kek
>>8990346
you don't need sleep. sleepiness is just Jews taking your life-force away for shekels to be made.
Why do people value Science/Technology/Engineering/Math over ANY Social Sciences?
I know you 4chan people just want some random links to random crap.
But as the Master Demographer... I am here to see how you react to my spamming and ranting.
Demographics is the best of all the sciences. We are the softest of hard, the hardest of soft.
Just because we didn't take AP Calculus with Regular Greg doesn't mean we aren't smarter than you and better in bed too.
Because STEM drives technological progression, social sciences do not. Because science/ math is the crown achievement of human thought, and the social sciences are just trying to be like the sciences. At least I can respect art and humanitites because they are what they are, you social scientists just are just wanna be scientists... No fuck off
>>9001636
The greatest social capital is being able to do things others can't. Sciences fall into this.
>>9001644
STEM douchebags think they're the best at everything.
And you're not all that. You're no me, for sure.
What did I do wrong /sci/ ?
>>9001504
lel
>>9001507
What?
>>9001504
Why did the 2 appear?
Hey /sci/, I'm at a crossroads in my life right now. I can either take over my fathers company and be rich. I was lucky to be born into an extremely wealthy family. Or I could pursue my dream of being a physicist. I've wanted to be one ever since I was 13. If I choose Physics I plan on getting a Phd, and if I choose Business a masters.
What should I do /sci/?
dream of science? or money?
>>9000945
>money or science
>implying that all STEM jobs don't pay 300k starting
Depends on how much you care about being a physicist. If you're like me, you'd go for science, rather than money. How much do you care about money, and how much do you care about being a physicist?
Also how wealthy are we talking?
>>9000945
You can do both. Not that you have either choice IRL, but that is a nice LARP.
>>9000951
I really care about being a physicist. Doing research is one of the few ways that I see my life having meaning
Money isn't essential to me but I'm not keen on the idea of having to be extremely conservative and stingy
>Also how wealthy
My family is top 100 in my country
I'm studying Baby Rudin on my own and this shit sucks. I wanna go into applied math, so I'm just stomaching all this pure shit until I be done with it or at least get to a point where it's interesting (pure math and sudoku for example). I'm doing half of the problems at theend of each section. Sometimes sections go very well, other times I can barely do any. Is this normal? Should I do less problems?
Pls no bully
>>9000629
>Should I do less problems?
No.
>>9000629
Go slower and make sure you really understand the material. You can't just race through it. Some questions will take you a long time others will be quick.
Do you want to have a poor grasp of it and be done or do you want to become a better mathematician?
>>9000634
That's true. How do I know when a certain subject has become familiar?
With that being said, how do you look at a problem and confidently say "I don't need to do this" or "Doing this would be superfluous"?