Archived threads in /sci/ - Science & Math - 1000. page

>>8587493
>I'm an idiot, but it's everyone else's fault!

>>8587500
So requesting that I be given problems that actually test my knowledge even in the slightest instead of addition and multiplication means that I'm an idiot

kys faggot

>cant do basic math

leave brainlet

>>8587294
get her a klien bottle

>>8587297
bitches love klien bottles

>>8587297
Not a bad idea. I plan on getting her a few things

>>8587167
Idk but 4chan is the result of it.

vaccines

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>>8587171
It's the cause and the result, we're trapped in a vicious circle.

>>8587157
S-waves
P-waves
earthquakes

>>8587157
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_wave#Notation

Geology student here. I had it explained to me by a professor this way:

There's what we tell the public
There's what we tell undergraduates
There's what we tell graduates
There's what professors learn
There's what researchers try to figure out
There is the truth

Guess where you are? There's a lot that's being obscured from you because it gets complicated but saying we know what the center of the Earth is is a lie. We have some ideas but anything below the crust is estimates, anything below the moho is guesswork

>>8587073
Very strong egos convinced they already know what happiness is

I have a typical high IQ job, I won't say more. I keep it down to weed, extremely infrequent mdma and caffeine. The go / start of caffeine is a good mental state to solve some of the problems in my work extremely quickly.

The downside is I'm a professional and therefore I wouldn't bring drugs to work.

If I'm obsessed it's because I could imagine an intellectual society would allow its workers to manipulate their mental states for productivity. If I'm upset it's because the reality is that stick butts are obsessed with banning things they believe they're better than.

>>8587084

>high IQ job
>I keep it down to weed

Weed in my experience makes me think less. It makes me happier in a sense but less considerate, less able to deal with complex thinking. Not "stupid" but in a sense I feel it does make me dumber. More simple minded, or focused in a broad sense.

Im still not convinced we actually know your cranium is full of brains? Prove me wrong.

>>8587068
I believe that because we have pretty easy access to brains. I can google brain surgery, I cant google footage of the core

>>8587065
just dig a hole like 70metres deep. It'll get hot as fuck and you'll see lava.

Or fly to Hawaii and see some lava coming from the ground. Or find footage of any volcano.

>>8586851
>I'm really dedicated and want to learn
Well, shut up, leave, pick up those books, and get to work! You'll find out if its possible when you get there.

>>8586866
I really don't want to put in all my life and literally find out it wasn't worth it since my brain can't learn it and doesn't have the power to do what people like Jacob Barnett or Demis Hassabis can do. That is a legitimate concern mate.

>>8586851
Programming is a glorified trade job and a theory of computation PhD takes about 7 years not including all the english and electives you have to take at the same time so yeah you can easily do it.

Modern programming is poking a big library and stringing shit together unless you're involved in analysis or writing compilers or something.

Here you go can do both of these in 6mos doing all the exercises. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~112/schedule.html
https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

>>8586605
there's no pure math in europe. You just go to autism day center for that

>>8586605
>What reasons are you studying pure math?
Personal interest in mathematics and a general disatisfaction with everything else.

Personal interest because I care deeply about the results of mathematics and about how those results are obtained.

Disatisfaction with other degrees because I simply cannot care enough. I cannot care enough about physics or chemistry (subjects I was also good at back in hs), I cannot care enough about engineering, I cannot care enough about anything else to study it for 4 years.

It all just seems too boring. Too trivial. It doesn't intrigue me, not like mathematics does. And whatever problems this could bring to my professional career I don't really care because I already have that "problem" sorted out.

>How far along are you in major?
I'm a sophomore.

>What is your favorite sub-field of math?
Algebra. In my freshman year I studied all the 3 main topics of math (analysis, algebra and geometry) very deeply (but not deep enough) and what I found is that analysis is trivial and boring, geometry can get too complex while at the same time lacking in substance (making it boring) but Algebra is just perfect. It is just right there in the middle. It is at the midpoint of difficulty and at the midpoint of meaning. I am definitely looking forward for my Junior year where we finally have 3 classes of just pure algebra.

>Post-graduation plans?

I am already decided in the fact that I will get a masters degree in mathematics. However, I will only also get that masters in pure mathematics if I get outstanding results all throughout my undergrad career. If I don't turn out to be a genius then I am considering many applied mathematics degrees that are very worthwhile.

Degrees that focus on mathematical finance/actuarial mathematics and degrees that focus on applied research for industry look very very juicy.

That said, if I don't turn out to be a genius, I intend to work in technology as I am already in that anyways.

>>8586624
What are you even talking about that's just plainly false

>>8586231
I also smoke weed.

>being dead is better than being alive
yes, i have this thought all the time

>>8586235
No, I'm serious. I think about this all the time. No one is ever truly satisfied indefinitely with whatever accomplishment achieved.

There is always something else to reach for.
As if it is a game, and the game is to waste time until we die.

Too hard to dig. That's a fuckton of miles of dirt to move.

It's not THAT high
And you've lose so much energy pumping water down there + back up or however you wanted to do it

>>8585224
The cost of digging goes up exponentially with depth

>>8584347
Bitch, what the fuck did you fucking expected from one of the top 3 universities in the world?

>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/mathematics

MIT is one of the top schools in the world bruh

>top 20
lmao

the ants

>>8583887
I think the ants would generate so much heat they would die.

>>8583886
That many soldiers would have more than the mass of a lot of suns.

Probably the ants too.

They'd all die in the black hole they'd induce.

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And co2 is a killer! (except for plants of course)

>>8588035
>>8588036
4/10

I'm a lvl 97 Poisson Necro, and they're incredibly bullshit.

>>8581001
There's scales of certain personality characteristics that are backed up in psychological research that have been successfully used to predict behaviors.

And then there's categorical types mostly created to sell ideas to companies so the creators can get money. Like you posted.

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permavirgin reporting in

I hope you realize they are actually filming that in planes on parabolic trajectories flying in gigantic underground facilities to avoid detection.

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>>8588445
fuck meant to post this