how do i do a math?
depends on where you're at in life. post better puppers and i may elaborate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dqtW9MslFk
Thoughts?
I though the Many-Worlds Interpretation was weird...
No one follows PBS Space Time here?
I've seen this video. The interpretation was regarded as invalid.
>>9135973
>The interpretation was regarded as invalid.
was it?
Any way, electrons moving from past to future and positrons moving from future to past seems to be accepted:
>I did not take the idea that all the electrons were the same one from [Wheeler] as seriously as I took the observation that positrons could simply be represented as electrons going from the future to the past in a back section of their world lines. That, I stole!
Feynman's Nobel acceptance speech.
A couple of questions about water /ski/.
First of all why does water expand when freezing and how come water grows spikes up in the air defying gravity?
Finally is there any other substance life could spark in?
>>9135792
Bump
Solid H2O, ice naturally forms a hexagonal pattern which takes up a set amount of space. Liquid water flows more freely between individual molecules of H2O and as such naturally tends to be more compact, in terms of volume, than its solid counterpart.
>>9135792
I'm not so sure about the spikes but water expands when it freezes because water is a polar molecule. So it crystallizes once it freezes. I'm sure the spikes are related to that.
brainlet here, how accurate is the science in black future man's video about quantum teleportation and entanglement?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWc6Goy6cRk
Not terrible for pop sci.
>>9135718
OP
watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ORLN_KwAgs
and then watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSFRN-ymfgE
How neat are you really, sci?
Usually I'm like this:
-Main shit
-stuff about main shit
-more details
More math I am all over the place. Regular notes like pic relatedjust follows the format.
Handwriting is a hybrid of print and cursive
>>9135667
Quite neat, I think.
not neat at all you're a faggot
Anyone care to explain the basis/basics of what quantum vacuum zero-point energy is?
Would be appreciated
fields and then particles :D
So what about an "infinite set"? Well, to begin with you should say precisely what the term means.
Okay if you don't, at least someone should. Putting an adjective in front of a noun does not in itself make a mathematical concept.
Cantor declared that an "infinite set" is a set which is not finite. Surely that is unsatisfactory, as Cantor no doubt suspected himself. It's like declaring that an "all-seeing Leprechaun" is a Leprechaun which can see everything. Or an unstoppable mouse is a mouse which cannot be stopped. These grammatical constructions do not create concepts, except perhaps in literary or poetic sense. It is not clear that there are any sets that are not finite, just as it's not clear that there are any Leprechauns which can see everything, or that there are mice which cannot be stopped.
Certainly in science there is no reason to suppose that "infinite sets" exist. Are there and infinite number of quarks or electrons in the universe? If physicists had to hazard a guess, I am confident that the majority would say: No. But even if there were an infinite number of electrons it's unreasonable to suppose that you can get an infinite number of them all together as a single data object
>he adds the set containing the set containing itself to the overall set ad infinitum
it's not that hard op
>>9135497
Math belongs on /sci/. This is a science and math board.
How come they are so laughable?
Because no replication.
Thankfully, that's changing though.
because they are not actual sciences, its just conjectures derived from statistics, they should be called "social studies" or something similarily less misleading
>>9135478
That's not laughable at all.
They're putting in effort to replicate results.
The subfield of mathematics I'm working on involves lots of computation, so results are seldom replicated simply because they take so many CPU years.
>be in mech eng
>have "girls in engineering" summer camps for highschool and middle school girls only
>literally all of the women in my year of mech eng program (4th) work there because they didn't get a summer work position
Apparently this is a thing all over the place. Why do these women go into engineering to not be an engineer and instead encourage other women to go into engineering? Do you see this yourself at your school?
>>9135438
Your school blows and so do your girls.
>>9135448
It's a top 40 school, but thanks
>>9135451
>>It's a top 40 school
highly ranked by employers or other eggheads and academics?
>be me
>in a dream
>going around and stuff
>mum asks me if I am good at calc I
>"Yeah, I guess"
>Get into a restaurant
>open the restaurant's menu
>the food options are expensive
>but they have calc I problems attached
>if you solve the calc I problems, you get the meal for free
>search the menu for calc I problems that I can solve
>they are all difficult
>continue searching
>finally find a problem I can solve
>it's for a fucking soup
>attempt to solve the question
>get out mechanical pen, and begin writing steps on the menu (directly below the question)
>find out that I can't solve the problem
>don't get soup
>wake up
How do I get good at calc I?
>>9135404
Read a Calc 1 book.
>>9135427
/thread
thought?
you're a faggot for inverting the colors
>>9135343
I have no medical background.
I think it's more or less commonly accepted that disease outcome depends heavily on complex interactions and on the patient's psychology. The placebo effect, for example, has been repeatedly empirically verified.
From reading the article, this particular word seems to apply to a non-theory, however.
>>9135354
This.
The biopsychosocial model considers a broader range of causes for an affection (if that'd be the correct word in english), including socio-cultural and psychological background as well as biological causes. Whereas the biomedical model, as already stated, attributes the causes solely to biological factors.
For example: A hysterical palsy can't simply be explained by biological factors alone, but the biopsychosocial model offers other possibilities, such as a traumatic event which causes a psychological effect.
Does being fat have a negative effect on intelligence?
>>9135244
if you're fat you're probably already retarded
>>9135244
No.
Yes a healthy body equals a healthy mind. Thats what the greeks believed and thats what logic and scientific evidence tells us today
Why do females become sexually active before they start ovulating and become fertile?
>>9135204
Uneducated guess:
At some point in our history we started selecting for more promiscuous females (possibly for social reasons, possibly because we had the wealth of resources to make it possible to do so) and the genes or traits that govern sexuality aren't necessarily the same ones that govern ovulation
Or perhaps when marriage or other, more primitive monogamous pair-bonding practices became popular, females who had more time to build a relationship with their partner before committing to a baby fared better overall.
>>9135204
>onset mating: 12
>me still virgin: 21
Fuck this world
>>9136394
That's the age the females would start mating. Many males would still be virgins in their 20s.
http://infoproc.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/ninety-nine-genetic-loci-influencing.html
>Intelligence is going to be deciphered at the molecular level, in the near future, by genomic studies with very large sample size
Is he right? How close is the "near future"? Geneticsfags pls respond.
>>9135196
>>Intelligence is going to be deciphered at the molecular level, in the near future, by genomic studies with very large sample size
RACIST RESEARCH I DEMAND THIS DEFUNDED RIGHT NOW DELET THIS
15 years
China will probably be the first. they will have a couple rounds of accidental downies, but eventually they will get it right
>>9135196
I know this is just a blog post, but the quality of the writing leaves a lot to be desired. As for the question of the hereditary aspect of intelligence being deciphered soon, it's all speculation and no one can say for sure when the next big genetic discovery will be made.
Does anyone else have trouble learning something unless they know every detail about the subject they're learning about? Do you also have trouble learning things from a website and find it easier to learn from physical books?
For example, I have difficulty understanding something or learning a skill by reading bits and pieces of information on the internet. I only seem able to learn something by going through a textbook that covers pretty much everything within the scope of what I need to know. Especially if it involves working through problems.
Textbooks also help me remember information more easily, because I can recall a chapter in the text and remember what a specific section of it discussed. This seems harder to do with information written online, even when it is organized, because it always seems disjointed to me. Books tend to be more comprehensive and more easy to visualize when I am remembering what I read.
I also have an easier time learning from a physical book that I can hold and page through, rather than from text on a screen. Not only that, even my posture and the angle of my head seems to affect how well I can focus on a text. For example, I am better at reading from a book that I am hunched over, rather than from a pdf displayed on a monitor in front of my body.
>>9135174
real books can be easier to learn with
You can think of websites as mostly reference books with some very specific concepts explained in a very succinct way.
While textbooks can be either the type that is explanatory and covers most of the concepts or problem sets, neither of which is found in reference books, which merely summarize the explanations and represent them in a most accessible, memorable way.
This distinction, explanatory vs reference kind of material is the key that you seem to be missing.
>>9135174
I'm like this too, but I've gotten better at not doing it with programming. If I spent all my time trying to learn every module method and class I use I wouldn't be able to get anything done.