Redpill me on Fermi Paradox, /sci/... where are they?
>>8945609
Somewhere, probably.
In the last place you'd think to look at: Earth.
In Spivak's Calculus, he provides a """rigorous construction""" of the ordered pair.
To do so, he defines (a,b) as {{a},{a,b}}.
Can one of you explain how this is significant or rigorous. The definition and accompanying theorem seem arbitrary to me.
>>8958696
Set inclusion/difference gives the ordering.
>>8958701
Could you explain this further? I'm completely lost.
>>8958696
>Can one of you explain how this is significant or rigorous.
He is showing that if you have 2 ordered pairs which are equal to each other they are made up out of the same members, it is written right there on the page.
It is obviously important to prove this, else the definition wouldn't make much sense.
>rigorous
It obviously is rigorous, there are no uncertainties and the definition is clear and unambiguous.
>significant
You need ordered pairs to construct the rational numbers and other things but the necessity for such a thing should be obvious.
Bioinformatics or Biomedical Engineering? Applications? Which to study for good work and further Neuroscience career?
>>8958433
Computer/Electrical engineering.
Not even joking.
Maybe also get a minor in something biology related.
>>8958437
So I'm guessing bioengineering
>>8958472
It literally depends on what you want to do. "Neuroscience" is broad as fuck.
What happen if all World completely get solid?
Everyone gets cancer.
>>8958347
If it lasts longer than four hours it should contact a physicist immediatly.
everyone is burnt to a crispy in a matter of seconds
>Be me
>Have actively observed climate change in my life
>Summers are getting longer, winters a getting shorter and less cold.
>Certain crops literally taste worse as they're dependent on the seasons.
A lot of experts say people don't believe in climate change because it's something different and unassuming that people can't relate to and is difficult to observe with your own eyes.
I and most of the people I know HAVE seen it with our own eyes and firmly believe in it because of this.
Has anyone else here observed climate change for themselves?
>>8958224
A few warm years are not proof of climate change. That mentality is a dangerous one to have and can discredit actual climate change. Once you get a couple cold years, everyone's going to laugh in your face. Don't point to personal observations as proof, ever.
>>8958224
>Certain crops literally taste worse
I've recently noticed a lot of vegetables taste much sweeter than they used to. Is this just due to selective cultivation or is it climate change? E.g. carrots taste sickly sweet nowadays.
>>8958239
no it is due to GMOs
>>8958149
DNA is not base 4. It's not base anything.
>>8958160
>DNA is not base 4. It's not base anything.
brainlet detected
"Each nucleotide is composed of one of four nitrogen-containing nucleobases — cytosine (C), guanine (G), adenine (A), or thymine (T)."
Although there are 4 nucleobases, these really function as a binary system since they come in pairs, with cytosine always binding to thymine and guanine binding to adenine.
>>8958048
I love this man
Live forever or die trying
>>8958048
>Wants to long
>Drinks beer
You'd think he'd be very strict about his diet, like doing a calorie restricted diet.
>>8958161
His entire work with SENS is based on the assumption that things like diet, exercise etc are good but can boost you lifespan 5% top
Repairing damage could bring huge life extension and still be relatively simple (compared to fully understanding human biology)
What does /sci/ think of the study of consciousness through psychedelic drugs?
Is Is Terence Mckenna ascended theorist or complete pseudoscience?
The problem for me is that none of his big claims are really testable.
However I think his subjective experience in the study of the psychedelic experience is very useful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnEKoFrx1rI
I've listened to the entirety of every McKenna lecture I could find online.
The mans intellect was vast. But I would primarily characterize him as an experimental philosopher. In that he was exploring the boundaries of consciousnesses through psychedelic drugs.
pseudo for sure. He might have been smart and intellectual, but it was all pseudo at best
>>8958026
Sometimes he says shit which is just a barrage of jargon, idk what to make of it
>NOTHING, not EVEN LIGHT
>i'm very smart but lazy
I was just thinking today, about how he said in Cosmos that human beings evolved because of domesticated dogs.
Its a clever idea, but, does he have any empirical reason to believe it? What really got my buttons boiling, was, doesnt that imply that there are genetic behavioral differences between human populations? After all, not all peoples had dogs. The direct implication is that there are genetic differences in human psychology. He would never admit that!
>>8957859
>>i'm very smart but lazy
What's the problem with this? Sounds like people are just mad jealous they're putting in tons of effort and still get mediocre grades.
I ace everything I ever try for, but I rather do fun things than boring things like studying.
>tfw someone tells me they spent 5 hours on a single assignment over the weekend
>>8957914
Most people believe they're more intelligent than average. "Smart but lazy" is something you hear from idiots who want to be treated like they're better than average while having nothing to show for it.
Such a small number of people are actually capable of putting in significant consistent effort that those who do have a good chance of standing out, even if they don't have a "natural" advantage. It's far better to have discipline and ethic than to just be "smart". But then you get shitheads who never tried a day in their life acting like they're better than most people just because they got okay grades in high school "without trying".
>be me
>loved electronics since i was a kid
>dad was an electronics engineer that only went to trade school
>watched every documentary
>read as many books as i could
>determined to go to uni for EE
>get to choosing colleges
>none of them around me offer EE because southfag
>settle for the comfiest still well-known uni
>chose Digital System Design as a substitute
what am I getting myself into /sci/ is it even remotely close
>>8957771
You're probably getting into some trade or minor, probably related to CE more than EE.
Your shit is hard to research, since that is one of the courses CE and EE have but
>as a substitute
The fuck?
Literally first time in my life that I cannot answer well completely.
Digital system design sounds like a specialization of comp eng
>>8957786
It's a focus of the College's (TTU) CE courses, just to make up for it I'm going for a double major in Computer Science as well. Hoping to do Grad work in Microprocessing.
Does anyone have any advice for studying or paying attention in class for someone with what is medically known as ADHD?All through middle and high school I can remember studying maybe once or twice and I never payed attention in class. I hate the medicine they prescribe but I'm a little worried going into college that I won't be able to perform as well as I'd like.
NOTE: Whether or not ADHD actually exists is irrelevant to my question.
ADHD is a meme
Why bother with college if you arent going to pay attention?
There's no such thing as ADHD, you just need to fucking pay attention and stop talking your dumb classmates fagot
>Nerdy girls talking about and doing Mathematics
This motherfucker right here. Is there anything more relaxing?
>>8957102
ugly as fuck senpai
>>8957102
They're trying to integrate attention over themselves.
>>8957102
Having one of them as a girlfriend.
And no it's not impossible, if you do research, some good not that known mathematicians always get married to another mathematicians.
Hell, even Terry has his waifu and 2 kids.
Why isnt anyone digging to the earths core? how do we even know earth has a core
>>8956878
why do you people keep asking this asinine shit you could just google in three fucking seconds?
Soviets drilled the deepest hole in history. it was 12km deep. The rock that deep acted like plastic and it was so hot they couldn't even cool their equipment properly. They still wanted to drill at least two more kilometers but they physically couldn't.
>>8956878
A hole to the mantle is literally a volcano.
>>8956888
>why do you people keep asking this asinine shit you could just google in three fucking seconds?
To annoy easily riled people like you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E
>>8956872
Birth rates are falling.
If you think overpopulation is a problem then you've never taken a roadtrip across the US. 90% of this country is virtually uninhabited and most of it isn't even farmland. People just have this derangement where they think they need to pack themselves into big cities and then cry about overpopulation.
>implying technology advance isn't also exponentional
idiots warning about global warming and overpopulation are so funny
>>8956881
>it's another "the entire world fit can in the state of Texas with the population density of nyc hehehehe nothing to worry about here heh" episode
World population is the elephant in the room all ecologists seem to avoid at all costs.
Go listen to a podcast about living conditions in South and East Asia and consumption habits for some nightmare fuel and then get back to me.
ITT: scientists you fucking L O A T H E
>>8956525
come the fuck on i check on this thing 5 hours later and not a single bite
i know you people L O A T H E somebody
>>8956882
Stephen "Let me introduce you to my world changing volume A New Kind Of Science which is very thick and you probably hoped it was thick because it was meaty like The Road To Reality or something but it's actually meaty because I am going to talk and talk and talk about how important and impressive it is that I explored the cellular automata rules space some and drew some wrong conclusions which I will describe as permanently revolutionizing all fields of science and philosophy" Wolfram makes some nice software and I don't really loathe him but honestly sheesh