some food for thought to get your /sci-juice revving for 2017 you fucking nerds
>Put one million monkeys with typewriters inside a spaceship that travels for 10 billion years. By the end of the trip, the monkeys will have typed a Shakespearean sonnet. Sound far-fetched? This monkey problem defends the possibility of life arising by chance.
haha i kno right because the universe is infinite in size, matter, and time, there will eventually come a time in which this monkey is floating in space typgin this exact post on a computer amazing right dude smokes bong
What if all monkeys type AAB ABBBA BBAB AAA BBB and the variances of these?
What guarantees that a monkey will eventually type up even a sensible word in the english language ?
>>8574714
What guarantees they wouldn't? There is a chance. And with one million monkeys traveling for 10 billion years, that chance is very high. About the same as that you won't be hit by a car the next time you leave the house
So, /sci/, are viruses alive?
>>8574467
Nahhhh
>>8574467
as alive as fetuses
go back to pole we are sciencing abortions here!
>>8574467
They lack the cellular faculties to be deemed "alive". They do exhibit some traits of living organisms however such as mutation, adaptation, natural selection
We all know engineering is the best STEM field in which to make good and respectable money. However, which field of engineering is the most profitable?
>Do note, things like petroleum engineering are not stable occupations, as we'll soon run out of fossil fuels. Or, they'll be made illegal.
Bump
CS is very profitable also
>>8573835
A CS degree is meme tier. Pajeet is cheaper AND a better programmer
>>8573752
this thread would yield more results if posted in
>>/biz/
jobs salaries are a function of future events, which are pretty unpredictable. So it is near impossible to predict which fields will be most profitable.
I think a good piece of advice for becoming wealthy is
>be around smart people, doing smart things
have at it boys...
http://www.strawpoll.me/12000844
>>8573547
strongest at what? Torsion, bending, axial forces?
>>8573557
sorry
should've clarified bending, but go in depth at your hearts contempt.
second planar moment of area about neutral axis
[math]
I_x = \int\int_{crosssection} y^2 dA
[/math]
>Euclid is outdated
>(((finite-dimensional geometry)))
As bluepilled as you can get
>>8573434
Euclid is not finite. There are many Geometers like Charles Dodgson who use Euclidean geometry to prove the existence of infinite straight lines.
>>8573221
He is tho, no one starts from his axioms anymore.
What would most likely happen if a larger solar flare struck Earth?
>>8572201
larger then what?
>>8572202
Whoops, meant "large" not larger.
Literally who cares? Space is retarded. It's not even science.
So... Which course of action should I pick?
>>8571626
Read some real books.
I don't get it.
Try to spend more time with humans.
Communication skills are important, even if you only shitpost on /sci/.
>>8571652
Stop reading books and start writing code. Once you have enough practice, reading books will give actual insights in what you're doing.
Reading a Computer Science book before having some programming experience is like reading a Calculus book before knowing how to count.
The T-rex had feathers, hollow bones, and was most likely warm blooded.
does this mean the T-rex, taxonomically, is a bird?
>>8570036
Yes. Or you can argue that birds are dinosaurs. In the next 50 years expect school textbooks to explain that avian dinosaurs survived the global extinction.
>>8570036
They're even more terrifying as birds. Birds are fucking crazy, a big dumb lizard is just going to eat you but a 30 foot tall parakeet might enjoy slowly pulling you apart to listen to the noises you make.
>>8570036
Why is this surprising, considering birds are literally the remnants of dinosaurs?
Why can't they keep the lines aligned?
>>8569752
its a secret message brainlet
gotta collect em all to decode
>>8569752
They don't want people with OCD in mathematics
>>8569778
Only the top is a math book
The two others are code monkey books
is global warming real?
>>8565310
Brought to by those that want to tax you more, and who said that there would be a lot of countries underwater by now.
Climate alarmism is big business.
>>8565310
this is an issue that has been under heavy debate for a long time and i'm wondering where /sci/ stands on this issue
>>8565310
How can global warming be real when the earth being a globe isn't real?
Does anyone of you have a /sci/ related achievement?
Like publish a paper that's critically acclaimed or win medal at an international Olympiad?
Maybe you invented something?
Or y'all just shitposters?
One time I solved a math problem
>>8576421
I have solved the first 53 problems at Project Euler, if that counts. I guess not.
I also went to European Olympiad in primary school, but I didn't do shit. Got like 2 or 3 points out of 40. But I bought a marijuhana bandana from some street seller in Veria for three euros so its cool.
>>8576447
>Inb4 it bursts
Is it correct to say that terms in a taylor series expansion are the first differential, second differential, third... etc.?
>>8576379
>Is it correct to say that terms in a taylor series expansion are the first differential, second differential, third... etc.?
they are the n-th differential at expansion point x0.
>>8576381
When we integrate, we use first differential quantities, dx. Is there calculus that integrates with second differentials?
>>8576385
Just intégrate twice :^)
After the big bang all matter in the universe was shot out of a singularity, supposedly. Now i've heard that the Universe is expanding and all galaxies are moving away from each other. I've also heard that the Andromeda galaxy is heading right for us, as well that other galaxies are in mid collision? Could someone with the knowledge please explain this to me, I just don't get it sorry. Thanks you for your time and patience.
the larger the distance the faster space expands, andromeda is close enough to us that we'll eventually collide, even tho there is still space expanding between us.
>>8576124
every bit of space expands at the same rate, creating more space to be expanded, so if you have more distance to an object, youll be gettin away faster because theres more space being expanded at once.
its not that everything its moving at the speed of light away from us (duh?) its just, the farther away you are, the faster you "move" relative to eachother.
Also, if youre far enough to something, you're not gravitationally bound to it, cause gravity travels at the speed of light. you get out of its "causality/light cone"
If a function is defined on R with right and left hand limits existing and equal at every point, can the function be continuous nowhere?
>>8576037
Proof? Geniunely curious.
Well thats a shame
I just read Nick Bostrom's simulation-argument as a whole and was quite impressed.
Have you guys read it? Found any flaws? Since the author tells that there is no evidence against those 3 claims.
Here's the paper. http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
>>8575994
What's the TL;DR?
>>8575994
>Found any flaws?
Other than the fact it's retarded?
>>8576006
>implying that anon got anything else than bullshit coming trough his mouth against the argument