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Hello /sci/. I need some life advice from you all.
How do I become like so many of you on here? Legitimately smart people with huge amounts of knowledge in your field.
I'm currently in my third year of uni and am incredibly interested in grad school. I have a decent GPA (3.7) and love my major (Geology/Geoscience). I genuinely love it and am super excited to learn as much as I can about it. With that said, I feel like I know next to nothing beyond what I learn in classes. I don't read any books or scientific papers on my major.
I want to start to learn more to to prove myself as a candidate for grad school, but don't know how or where to go about.
Tl;dr: How do I get smart?
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Also pic related.
Sometimes I feel like I have absolutely no idea what I am doing in my classes
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>>8571052
nice blog
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>>8571094
u wot m8?
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hey geos, what's on your mind?
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lolis and crystal lattices
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geology science is only good for examining moon rocks . everyone knows we have automated carbon dators
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>>8570764
just got a job 2 days ago desu
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What if all of the events of the last 14.5 billion years actually occurred over the course of one second and we are simply perceiving everything in super slow mo?
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>>8570554
Really makes you think.
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>>8570554
How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real?
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>>8570554
That doesn't make sense. "Years" and "seconds" are just arbitrary units of measurement related in a predefined way.
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Has the significant change between 2015 and 2016 in amount of global sea ice area between explained?
It doesn't follow the trend (even if it's a decreasing one) at all and screams 'broken methodology' to me.
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Ice formation tends to scale with temperature.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/17/the-north-pole-is-an-insane-36-degrees-warmer-than-normal-as-winter-descends/?utm_term=.bd0d71740d5f
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>>8570525
>(((washington post)))
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>>8571756
>(((things I don't like)))
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Why aren't exoskeletons common yet?
The technology is relatively simple by modern standards.
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>>8570473
Why would they be?
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>>8570499
Because they'd be badass
(Not OP)
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>>8570473
Power source
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Can anybody think of a legitimate, scientific research-oriented reason to nuke Venus?
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>>8569946
I dunno, gotta nuke something
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Isn't the argument about nuking Mars? Why would you do anything to Venus?
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>>8569958
Why not?
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If anthropogenic climate change is real, why should I give a shit?
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XD
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>>8569862
>why should I give a shit?
You shouldn't, you should put your fingers
into your ears and say "La-la-la-laaah,
I can't heeear you!"
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>>8570014
I mean, if antropogenic climate change is real, then realistically we're fucked and can't do much to change that.
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Can science predict the stock market? No I don't mean using the bullshit that economics teaches
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>>8569539
pic related is the performance of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that almost exclusively hires only PhD mathematicians and physicists
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you mean like high-frequency algorithm trading?
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yes, check numer.ai
How many extra calories would you burn if you lowered your room temperature to 12 degrees celsius?
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My guess by the way is:
Assuming temperature in which your body does not have to put extra energy into maintaining your temperature is 21, and your body weight is 80kg, and you burn 1 calorie heating up 1kg of your body 1 degree, then you need to heat up 80kg 9 degrees celsius, which is 720 calories, then I don't know
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>>8569310
That's heating up body from 12 degree to 21 degree and in both cases you're dead.
You actually need to measure the loss of heat from the body which varies depending on mostly clothing and minor things like humidity wind etc probably. Your body will need to produce as much energy as is exchanged with the environment, so you compare rate of exchange at 21 degree to rate at 12 degree. I don't think you can calculate it non experimentally with any accuracy without tons of other data and calculation.
You could probably search for some papers, it might be likely someone already measured how much heat we exchange.
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>>8569359
How many calories would you guess?
God I fucking hate reddit, every time I go there to ask them a goddamned question they remove my posts and don't even say why. Anyway, here's the latest thing that got censored by them, do you guys know the answer:
Does the moon's orbit ever intersect with earth's in such a way that you could just launch a craft of people into space and just wait for the moon to make it's way to where you are? If so, what would be the best day of the year to do this?
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>posting on reddit
>even browsing reddit at all
why?
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>>8569132
I don't know man, all it does is make me mad.
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>>8569104
That's the normal way of getting to the moon. It's not like we launched Apollo and then wasted fuel trying to catch up with the moon. The launch time and trajectory was calculated to be as efficient as possible.
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So if I'm not mistaken, differential equations is just another fancy course name for a continuation of Adcanced calculus...? Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure I'm right because differential equations uses pure calculus and a small tid bit of physics.
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>>8568887
Reported for lewd content.
Fuck off wanker.
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>>8568887
Fuck what I would give to suck that womans feet and smell her butthole.
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>>8568891
Nigga are you gay? Probably a Hillary Clinton supporter gay ass liberal
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How can I solve this system of equations? I've tried all night and all day but I get nowhere every time.
[math]a+b+c+d=100[/math],
[math]a^2=b^2+c^2+d^2[/math], and
[math]d=c+1[/math],
I've reduced it down to two equations by subbing in the value given for [math]c[/math].
[math]a+b+2c=99[/math], and
[math]a^2=b^2+2c^2+2c+1[/math].
I've tried rearranging the first equation for [math]a[/math] and squaring the RHS and letting it equal the second equation's RHS. It gets messy with non-linear terms.
How do I do this? I know there are solutions because Wolfram. Also I'm not that retarded at math so feel free to be technical. PS: I don't want to graph them and find intersections. Pic unrelated.
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>>8568531
You have three equations and four unknowns, dingus. You cant solve this.
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>>8568536
Prove it.
What you said applies very well to linear equations... but for non linear ones you better do a more in depth analysis.
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I'd wager that the solution is a two dimensional object, just solve in terms of two variables and leave the two other variables as functions of the independent ones
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Let's settle this shit once and for all.
Whats the smallest building block of the universe?
>protip : energy is not a building block
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your penis
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OP's dick
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>>8568047
god
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Can a sighted person learn to use echolocation?
if yes, where do i start?
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>>8567884
Lose the sight it will only distract you
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>>8567884
Probably not super well but yeah just blindfold yourself and make clicking noises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a05kgcI9D2Q
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>>8567884
Yes. It's about recognition, i.e. patterns. You have to be sensitive and be able to differentiate sound signals. Pick up a clicker point at a wall and click it and listen for the echo. then point to an open space and click it. Practice it a thousand times and you'll be able to train yourself to be sensitive to the unique audio cues that differentiate how far different objects are.
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I've been reading into this group, and I've wondered what /sci/ thinks about it. Have any of you attempted to solve some of the puzzles?
Here is some information about the group:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301
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>>8566923
It was all over /sci/ years back, but everyone got pissed and lost interest after they had a puzzle where you had to hunt posters in multiple cities across the world and put them all together to solve it, then right after that said 'people are working together too much, so the next puzzle will only allow the one who solves it to continue so that only the brightest can proceed'.
Really nigger? you design a puzzle that people can only solve by living in the correct cities, then claim that the puzzles are designed to let only the brightest pass and complain about people working together?
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>>8567105
>Really nigger? you design a puzzle that people can only solve by living in the correct cities, then claim that the puzzles are designed to let only the brightest pass and complain about people working together?
Everyone knows all the smart people live in the correct cities. People who do not live in the correct cities are all retards.
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>>8567122
This really shouldn't have to be said, but there are so many retards on this board.