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that picture is dumb, most ants are female anyway

>>9154839

Ants aren't very smart

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>>9154839
It's funny.

>>9154777
I don't think it 's actually possible to make them see reason.
If you actually bring up any legitimate points against their ideas, not even arguing for the globe model but just problems with their understanding of how things like light work, they will invariably end the conversation.
They're so close minded that they latch onto things instead of checking for logical explanations, like a video capturing Venus near the Sun during the eclipse being called the projector for the Sun because it moves with the Sun as the camera moves around.

A thousand years ago they would have just checked their star chart.

I have been dealing with flat earth shittery for quite some time. I wasted time trying to explain things, I put so much effort trying to reason with them, I wrote articles in relative blogs and so on. In the meantime, I would face one of the following two groups:

The first consisted of people who deeply believed that the earth was flat and there was nothing you could do to persuade them otherwise. The thing with that group is that they were not provocative or trying to force their theory on you. They were plain stupid, as I saw them at the time, but at least they weren't making a fuss.

And then there was the other group. Those who had (recently in most cases) read 2 articles in some pseudoscience blog and viewed a few YouTube videos which claimed that the earth was flat and had thus concluded that they had been enlightened and could now see the truth. This group consisted of stubborn people who had the mind of a 5 year old. But not the plain stupid type, no. They were the ones who were feeling superior, much smarter than "the sheep globers", as they would call anyone who "believed" that the earth was almost spherical. If you tried to reason with them, they would either insult you or would send you videos with "scientific proof" of earth's flatness which were as valid as a 10 year old's driving license. Arguing with them was not only exhausting, but also never lead to any result (other from me being banned from the group or something of that sort).

Then one day the following happened. The administrator of the group I had been following for the most time, in which I had to make more than one bot accounts, since I was getting banned a lot, made a statement. He said that he wanted to thank the "globers" for making a fuss about such groups and going into such trouble to explain that the earth was round. Thanks to them, the flat earth movement had gained a lot of attention the past year... (continuing on next post due to long comment)

>>9154888
Most of this attention was negative, due to people like me trying to persuade flatearther's that they are stupid. But a part of it, smaller, yes, but significant none the less, was from people who had no idea about the Flat Earth movement and got the chance to read about it and joined it. Yes. The people that I considered to be more stupid than a rock in Texas had outsmarted me (one of them at least) and managed to use me, my time and my effort.

What's the conclusion of that story? A friendly advise from someone who spent a lot of time trying to explain something fundamentally true to people who deny it. This advise is: stay away. As long as they are not hurting you (unlike fanatic religious terrorists for example), leave these people be and don't try to reason with them. As long as they can't immediately hurt you (except for the headaches of course), they are not worth your time. Don't try to reason.

Physical

>>9154733
Theoretical life sciences
Empiricism is no place for an autism

>>9154733
Autism is only good for math and solving Rubik's cubes, sorry.

>society is heading to STEM

Well, learning to survive in nature and how to operate a gun will be more useful in the near future.

going back to school and college algebra is killing me and no one on 4chan is helping I want to cry

>>9154718
Analyze your interests and see if any of them can be developed into STEM. If you haven't any, get to know some STEM subjects to see of there isn't something that you enjoy.
I am like you. I'm not interested in science myself, but reading into philosophy I got interested in logic, so I ended up enjoying math. I still don't like most of STEM, but now I like math, and I can go into banking and make lots of money.

strong indica

My psych gave me remeron which has a convenient side effect of knocking me the fuck out. I'd recommend it if you are depressed

Any benzo will do.

Do prions self replicate?

>>9154574
No.

>>9154574
Yes, even rna is a alive

Stewart (calculus) volume 2 gives a good introduction and some decent exercises.

Apostol (calculus) on the other hand goes even beyond, so I'd recommend you those 2 books.

>>9154545
spivak

>>9154545
Why the "absolute"? The equation would still be correct without it

same reason a brick isn't listed as a building

Unicity of prime number factorization. Next thread.

Numbers wouldn't be made up of a unique product of primes otherwise.

Instead of only having 2 * 3 for 6 you could have 2 * 3 * 1 * 1 * 1 * 1, etc.

You go from numbers having a unique product of primes to them having an infinite number of products of primes if you include 1 as prime.

post examples

>>9154492
Suppose that [math]a_{o}, a_{1}, a_{2}, \dots , a_{n} \in \mathbb{Z}[/math] are integers. Show that the product
[eqn]\prod_{0\leq i < j \leq n} (a_{j}-a_{i})[/eqn]
is divisible by [math]n![/math]

>>9154503
That product always equals 0, ergo it is divisible by everything, in particular by n!

This has been a PSA by the "Write your math right you fucking retard" foundation

Different objectives in life.

>>9154376
shkreli isnt a scientist. hes a business major and i dont think he even has a postgrad degree.

>>9154386
>U

hummmmmm that's what I'm saying

How can spreadsheet man make so much money on scientists and their work like that? I thought you people were supposed to be smart.

$9001

hundred

a microarray scanner will cost somewhere between 6 and 30 grand. the microarray itself maybe a couple hundred bucks, not more than a grand. reagents and standard tools maybe a couple grand.

>>9154208
Can't you google the name and model # then find the program needed?

>>9154219
>>9154208
Also, if you hook it up to a PC shouldn't the PC just see it as a webcam? It'd install a generic driver for it and you could use any 3rd party program to view it, like MPC-HC, MPV, or VLC?

>>9154219
>>9154222

I use windows 10 and it didn't recognise the microscope camera. The microscope is the one in the picture (Biolux) and it uses Ulead Photo Explorer, but that is no longer available.

>>9154166

Thanks, but, I'm good with my weed and coffee.

>>9154166
>Why do you faggots
Why the homophobia?

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>>9154169
>Thanks, but, I'm good with my weed and coffee.

>>9154165
>find a specific instance in an infinite unordered set.
Sounds like something you'd want a quantum computer for, but classically this isn't something a computer will help you with.

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>>9154165
>>meaningful image
define meaningful. With things like generative adversarial networks, you can take in a bunch of images and generate new images that have the same 'style' as the input images

>>9154165
It doesn't contain them all. It POTENTIALLY contains them all. Imagine the storage space needed if every possible combination was created and stored.

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>>9154041

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>>9154076
Here is my riposte (not OC)

>>9154041
how can you call that shit a DE it's almost a direct integral