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I hope it blows up, speeding up the demise of NASA. Better yet, they get it up there and it doesn't work at all and NASA starts the blame game, but the lead people get promoted in the end.

>>8797776
It will allow us to see the very first galaxies to have ever been formed.

>>8797776
The succesful launch and emplacement of the Webb will be the greatest scientific achievement to have yet been realized so far during this millenium.

>>8797494
circles don't exist irl

shitty b8

>>8797497
By real circles I mean things which we would say are circles but actually aren't on a microscopic level. Think pixel art circles.

>>8797498
No, I'm serious, I want to stop using [math]\pi[/math] and other irrationals.

what does it do?

>>8797495
Given any angle in radians for x, it returns that angle's reference angle in radians

>>8797501
How does it work? Why does that expression you posted encapsulate such behavior?

>implying they do

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Yeah, it's a mirage. All of it. We're just chasing the pink dragon dude.

>>8797368
Quantum mechanics ensures that we will never see a truly irrational number in nature.

>>8797163

the human concept of time isn't actually a real thing

its like looking at a mirror and wondering why it doesn't invert top to bottom

The smallest possible discernible event has no duration. It has happened or it has not. These events are either in the past of the future. There is no constant state of all moments. The sequence of events happen in an order. The state of the world triggers the next events, and the next state the following events. Time is the constant flow of indivisible events. The past is gone. Time is not relative. Time can pass even if we don't witness it. Traveling in the speed of light stops the picture we see of outside events, it does not stop the events themselves. It is all a misunderstanding. Time can not be broken.

>>8796956
If I recall correctly the Barnett Equation is pretty much the foundation of chess and go
Pretty advanced stuff though

About whether or not you should shoot other people in the head

Game theory is about why rational self interest is unoptimal.

Game theory couls help. It's all about creating mathematical models of different situations, and finding the best option for the players involved given the payoff of a given choice with respect to the other players strategy

>>8796877
And to clarify I mean learning an instrument or music theory

I've spent the last decade with wireless headphones on my ears and blasting music when working on something. It came to a point where I don't start working on things unless I start up some music.

More of a behavior alteration than actual cognitive increase.

>>8796885
Same. One time I didn't even make my bed until I had music playing.

>>8796869
>Mathematics
I'd choose suicide desu

>>8796869
Not princeton because they deflate your grade which hurts.
Do Harvard imo, Yale is in New Haven which is terrible.

summarize your application for me pls

>>8796863
Half-right.

I am fairly intelligent, I have an 'above average' IQ and Asperger's syndrome, normally this would a wonderful combination for STEM and I should be thinking about going to do either a master's degree or doctorate by now (I'm 21, going on 22).

However, at 19 I was 'luckily' enough to have caught the attention of someone who apparently didn't notice I had Asperger's and took my 'decent' looks (apparently) as an invitation to baby-trap me.

This forced me to drop out of higher education and has delayed me applying for a bachelor's degree until now.

So, I would say, to a certain extent, that being a virgin (and certainly being caught pregnant) retards your progress in academia and certainly within STEM, as it is a naturally more complex metatopic.

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>>8796879
Jesus, man

>>8796863
I think you need to know how to live for yourself, focus on seeing the world in a lens apart from social bullshit, and focused on life, the nature of your world, and yourself, long enough to think correctly and be properly functional. After that point it's probably not markedly deleterious, in a core sense, to pursue or accept romantic or sexual involvement.

This always baffled me. What does the proof for e^(ipi) = -1 even look like?

>>8796837
Write e^ix as an infinite series.
Then realize that that series is equivalent to the infinite series of cos(x) and isin(x) summed.

You end up with e^ix = cos(x) + isin(x)

Then plug in pi.

>>8796826
>>8796837
>>8796849
This isn't even true. It's derived from angles in a complex plane which is just autistic mememath

>>8796485

My have is probably Iridium

>>8796485
>not chromium
kek

blissful

Young adult non-Asian men that consider anime and manga as part of their hobbies and interests tend to have lacked a strong father figure or a healthy relationship with their fathers growing up.

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>>8795483
I've been reading about Fourier Analysis recently. Been coding up a Fourier Decomposition and Evaluation program in Octave to give myself a better understanding on how we use them in the modern sense. Pic related has been some of my recent casual reading.

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last 3 things i read:

Corrado Segre - On Some Tendencies in Geometric Investigations
http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1904-10-09/S0002-9904-1904-01142-8/S0002-9904-1904-01142-8.pdf

William P. Thurston - On proof and progress in mathematics
https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236

Sam Harris - Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion


idk what to read next

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>>8795519
oh yeah also almost done reading Tolstoy's 'A Confession"

>>8793567
Woah really makes you think

>>8793567
So I've been marathoning a certain podcast, and they had an episode about heels a while back. More about design (and a lil history) of heels than why we find them attractive.

If you're interested.
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/feet-of-engineering/

>>8793567
Estrogen doesn't specifically limit the growth of feet. Feet are designed to be a mixture of lightweight and balanced producing. Evolutionarily, it would be more of a physical detriment to have large feet because it would take more energy to lift them and more focus to burst away from a gray timber wolf.

Meh this has been done to death...

YES "Aliens" are likely to exist elsewehere in the universe because it's fucking huge

NO we will never make contact with these "Aliens" because everything is really far away and we haven't invented warp drives

NO they won't be little green men, but more likely just bacteria and germs. They won't be intelligent like humans because it took billions of years for us to evolve from bacteria, and we will only inhabit Earth for a small fraction of this

No, there isn't life out there besides us.
There is literally no precedent for it. Until we find life anywhere else, we just have to accept the most likely scenario and the only scenario that there is any actual evidence for, and that is that Earth is the only place with life.

>>8793149
Theres probably other life in the milky way, theres probably older life in parts of the unigerse that cooled before our part of the universe, theres probably not extremely technologically advanced life elsewhere in the milky way, perhaps there is a handful of sentient, intelligent life per galaxy, but it would take tens of thousands to millions of years to contact another one of these lifeforms.

>>8791010
The fluoride addition was an attempt to bolster dental health among populus

The actual fluoride itself is water soluble and in such a low concentration that toxicology evidence is non existent. You'll pass out any extra fluoride that remains assuming you even drink that much water. There isn't any evidence that fluoride in the water at the <1ppm level is harmful in anyway

And sodium and fats in excessive amounts is bad for your health. Enjoy neuropathy and heart disease

>>8791035
Oh look. It's another dogma student. Fuck off.

>>8791071
>ask paranoid ass question based on myth
>pissed when someone gives him a logical response
Fuck off back to /x/