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First year computer engineering student.

What should I expect /sci/?

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What is it like to be a social scientist ?

Im studying communication science and as most students I thought I wanted to work in journalism/marketing/something like that.

But there is this Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences' professor who asked me if I ever thought about doing research (because im le class' smart kid). Obviously I never did, I thought I would probably end up writing for a shitty online newspaper or working at McDonalds.

I would probably end up doing paper work to start but I think it would be a good experience even if I totally fail at it.

Most students dont like him because they say he is too strict (and most of them dont give a fuck about methodology because they just want to be journalists) but he is a really cool dude and also very respectable (he's a sociologyst, he has a PhD, hes written many books, he sometimes appears on tv, he is not a sjw, his cv is like 10/10).

>pls dont make this a meme thread quantitative sociology is the less memeish social science desu

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ITT: GIFs that explain mathematical concepts. These always seem to be super satisfying to watch.

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How did lamb evoluve!

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I've been doing some thinking and i'm wondering what you guys think of this

Pro
>high output
>clean, non-polluting
>no greenhouse gases
>produce more than they consume
>could use other sources besides uranium

Cons
>bigass power plants
>difficult to store
>if the plants are damaged they could really fuck things up

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Do you agree with the march for science?

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Sorry /sci/, but it looks like the new Einstein has already been found. Maybe you can try again in the next life, eh?

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Colony Requirements:
1: Must be self-sustaining after being initially setup.
2: Must have healthy children born in the colony for more than 5 generations without technological or genetic augmentations.

These requirements are extremely steep for starting an off-Earth colony within our solar system. #1 requires a very balanced, closed loop ecosystem, which is difficult to do. #2 is very difficult just because of gravity restraints.

After seeing the screenshot image (blue sections of this image) I decided to do some research into what celestial bodies might be viable for colonization (white section of this image). It seems that no planets, asteroids, or moons can have a colony on their surface, yet floating cities on Venus and the gas giants (except Jupiter) is viable. However, many moons and asteroids can be converted into O'Neil Cylinders.

This takes for granted that we could build a floating city at 100kPa level on the gas giants and Venus as well as being able to build O'Neil Cylinders out of moons/asteroids and get the moon/asteroid to spin at 1g without flying apart. Getting them to spin at the right speed for 1g is the biggest hurdle.

Building O'Neil Cylinders that orbit the sun would be fairly easy, just costly. Those are at least well within our technological realm right now without much hand waving, magic, or "special material we almost have out of the lab".

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What's the fucking point in taylor polynomials?

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Could anyone please post the definitive ultimate NON-TROLL list to learn Math, from pre-grades to undergrades?

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Hi Guys, i'm mostly a /fit/ poster. We deal with a lot of bs science from nutrition peoples, fatties, etc. They change everything all around every year. So I was thinking about all this "march for science" stuff.

How do you tell which science is real, like you can build bridges with it, and which science is mostly about female spirits inhabiting 40 year old trannies? They both come from universities and they are all peer reviewed and such. But there seems to be a big difference between a bridge and a female spirit inside of buffallo bill lol.

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Why did the majority of scientific breakthroughs that we take for granted today come from rich Lords who had too much time in their hands?

Even quantim mechanics and relativity were developed by rich aristocrats who literally shut themselves in their room for years until they finally cracked it.

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whats the easiest way to find value of
8 * 8
7 * 8
7 * 7
without memorizing

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Do vaccines cause autism?

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Often in tv and movies you hear "if there's infinite universes then there must be a universe where [blah blah]"
But surely this is only true if the set of infinite universes is the same or greater cardinality than the set of outcomes that the character is talking about.

For example imagine if I sample uniformly at random from the interval [0,1] countable infinite times.
What is the probability that at least one of those results is 0.3 exactly?
I'm pretty sure it isn't one , because there are countable infinite samples but uncountably infinite numbers in that interval.

Am I wrong?