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>psychology is a pseudoscience!
>look at my IQ score and bow before my superior intelligence, brainlet!
How does the average /sci/ autist function with such cognitive dissonance?
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>>8580746
>>look at my IQ score and bow before my superior intelligence, brainlet!
it's a meme.
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>>8580746
This place is full of freshman year students. They feel like genius for approve calculus.
What did you expect?
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>>8580746
Anon, psychology is NOT a Science.
It's a Proto-Science
Read a Book.
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Who here have one semester left and graduating this spring? If you are let your fellow /sci/entists know more about you.
>field
>immeadiate plans after school
>ideally what you want to do 10 years from now
>EE/minor Math
>working at an engineering firm
>go back for a PhD in solar cell research or work for Elon Musk
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>>8580610
Don't know if your education is designed like mine (in Denmark). But did you have to choose a specific branch which you wanted to know more about, like for example wireless, analog design, digital design..
If so what did you pick, and what is your average day? Which programs do you use?
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>>8580615
At the school I attended (In the US) they require that we complete at least one sequence of technical classes in either Power, VLSI, semiconductor devices/fabrication, communications, electromagnetics (RF design, antennas, high speed systems). You are welcome to try other classes in EE/CPRE as long as you compete a certain number of credits and a sequence. I chose semiconductor devices as my sequence and some power classes as other electives to get the required amount of credits. Semiconductors I found to be the most interesting but i want to work in the energy industry before I go back to grad school.
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>>8580649
Im starting 3rd semester EE. I can do the math, the analog design, and VHDL, but im pretty bad at coding C for microcontrollers. Will this be a big problem in the future?
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If the universe came about out of quantum fluctuations, how do you explain the baryon asymmetry?
You can't. You can't explain it.
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>>8580587
Antibarions were eaten by black holes.
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>>8580629
Damn. That makes sense. About as provable as God did it though. Is that the leading theory?
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CPT symmetry violation, possibly.
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If there is no freewill and the universe is determined then what's it determined by?
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It's determined by its initial conditions. Why the initial conditions were the way they were is something we will probably never answer.
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>>8580555
Determined by its self = freewill
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>>8580556
Freewill needs consciousness. I'm talking about natural processes in the assumed absence of consciousness.
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Do you have disturbing facts about life that would let you be happy not to know them?
I want to cause a little fear of a friend.
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Real numbers
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I'm fully aware of the meaninglessness of life but I wouldn't rather be happily ignorant.
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>>8580483
OP: Yeah, I know, but But I ask for something more normal to be afraid of, instantaneous combustion, for example but not so strange.
Many have that nihilistic fear.
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entertain me if you please
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>>8580502
That's a big orbiter.
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>>8580520
For you
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Who here starting MD/DO school in 2017?
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shameless bump.
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>tfw no one goes to med school
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bump
how do I into MCAT?
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Can someone describe the condition of the vagina after birth? I've always assumed that it's just stitched up, but do they wear some sort of pad or diaper to prevent infection? How long does it usually take to heal?
Also, would a woman be capable of running full speed just minutes after giving birth? Would it damage her in any way?
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>>8580199
What the fuck is going on in this picture
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>>8580199
ask mommy.
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>>8580199
Why do I have the feeling this is the start of a YEC thread?
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There is no serious debate about the identity of the world's greatest polymath.
But tell me: who is the world's second-most diversely talented person?
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>>8579855
2nd best? Im gonna have to go with Leonardo da Vinci.
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>>8579855
My money is on Leonardo Da Vinci.
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If you limit your definition of polymath as being prolific in multiple fields, even if those fields are of the same subject, then definitely Euler. If not then Riemann. If you want a more general polymath Da Vinci is the way to go.
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Briefly explain calculus terminology to me
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Okay, /sci/, retard here, trying to get the essence of calculus here. I know "how" to do the operations, I understand the notation, I get the right answers, I just want to know what it really means, and get the vocabulary straight.
The derivative of a function is the rate of change of one variable with respect to another. Right?
Okay, so what exactly IS the differential? I'm seeing two competing definitions:
One, the differential (dy, dx etc) is an infinitely small change in the value of y, or x, etc. This is what Liebnitz wrote, right? And the "infinitely small change" is the "infinitesimal."
On the contrary, I'm seeing elsewhere that the infinitely small change (infinitesimal) is represented by ε and is part of an equation, where Δy = dy + ε, the differential is the "measurable" change in y, and epsilon is the immeasurable change, so taking the two together you get the whole, actual Δy.
To sum it, in some places dy is an infinitesimal, other places it's the principal part of the increment (Δy). Are both of these definitions correct, and they are just used in different contexts? If so then what are the contexts?
I am not under 18, I'm going to engineering school, I just have not spent enough time studying this shit, and I'm on my own. PS fuck Liebnitz, Newton4lyfe. Best possible universe my ass, why bother doing anything at all then.
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bump, see if I have any shame
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>>8579803
get a real analysis book
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>>8579827
That's pretty legit.
Anybody wanna help me?
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I've noticed that when a bottle is reused over and over solid sheets form at the bottom of the bottle. What is this precipitate?
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>>8579793
My pee bottles are Ocean Spray and have been in service for a few years. They are built solid.
The scum layer is salient. My pee is usually a very light yellow because I drink lots of water.
Also, I drain them daily. So, i dunno.
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>>8579793
cyanide and calcium
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>>8579793
are you an artist?
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Is education a luxury good?
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We aren't going to do your econ homework.
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>is brainlearns things?
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>>8579790
I'm just asking
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Why is Hawking a genius, again?
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>>8579739
He found a way to force every part of his brain into scientific thinking, hence his disability. The parts of his brain responsible for movement are working to do physics instead.
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He is generally considered to be an expert on the quantum mechanics near the event horizon of black holes, which is a pretty fucking cool subject. He's also damn good at GR.
It's mostly overblown though because of his direct line of contact with skynet is something the media can get behind.
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First attempt on Organic AI
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Current areas of research in math
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So I've given up on new physics being interesting and want to move to math. What the hell are you math guys researching right now?
>Born too late to pioneer modern physics
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>>8579729
Math researchers specialize as much as possible. There fields of research are so specific that only other people in their subsubsubfield understand what is going on. 99% of mathematicians are like this. Writing papers for 10-15 other mathematicians. The field is a joke. Don't even bring up "real" research because that's even worse.
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>>8579745
OP, don't believe this fag. Just look for any list of open problems in mathematics and see how most of them are easy to understand. Here is a fact: Almost everyone in academia is trying to prove one of those famous problems. Maybe not the most famous, but one of the top notorious ones.
But most of those problems are only unsolved because of how hard they are. Why is it that most mathematicians working on really niche topics and publishing for other 10-15 mathematicians? Because every PhD out there is trying to develop some theory that they think will allow to prove one of the nice problems. The top ones like the Yokozuna of math have their own theory that only they understand, other less outstanding people are simply developing a theory invented before them but that has yielded results before, enough to be worth the hassle if only to find that one theorem that will allow them to prove something big and become famous.
So just look for a problem you like and see what the people researching it think are the best ideas you need to know.
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>>8579761
>Almost everyone in academia is trying to prove one of those famous problems.
Why?
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>water is the only substance which expands when it freezes
>water is literally a special snowflake
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>>8579410
Nope, gallium does that too, as does silicon, germanium, bismuth, and antimony.
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>>8579413
DAMNIT
well i figured others did it but i wanted to make the thread anyway because it's 4chan
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>>8579414
and mercury does
also any organic substance that has crystalline structures via hydrogen bonding works tool. Waters not the only one, methanol does it too