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>be me
>doing a PhD in Physics at a top 10 university in the world
>just progressed into my 3rd and final year
>largely experimental lab monkey work, so my programming skills are extremely minimal involve mainly data extraction from files and plotting using Matlab
>however my experiments have mostly failed because I tried to be "original"
>zero publications
>post docs have all left so I have no one to ask for advice (they don't even reply to my emails)
>there is only one other PhD student in my group but she already has like a zillion publications in Nature, Applied Physics Letters, and Advanced Functional Materials
>shes cold and doesn't even talk to me
>don't have enough data to write even 1 chapter for my thesis
So its safe to say I'm probably going to fail my entire PhD or get demoted to pass with just a Masters if I'm lucky.
As I lack programming skills at the level of software engineers or Quants (reason given in the above greentext), the only jobs suitable for me now are sales, marketing or low level customer service call centre jobs.
Obviously my huge ego and self entitlement prevent me from applying to those jobs because I think they are "beneath" my level of education.
So what I want to know is how do I get rid of and override this ego and self entitlement and just bite the bullet to apply to these jobs which are realistically within my grasp?
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You don't have to apply for technical jobs if you have a technical degree. Apply to wall street graduate jobs, especially sales and trading.
sci has this meme that physicists can only do programming jobs or physics jobs and etc. The reality is that most graduate jobs don't require specific degrees... especially true for the highest paying jobs
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>>8560112
>Apply to wall street graduate jobs, especially sales and trading.
You are severely deluded if you think you can get into trading without having years of preparation and an extensive network of contacts just for that purpose.
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>>8560088
You can jump off the roof of an apartment block
Can you brianletts figure it out?
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It's 6.
Why would anyone think that it's 720?
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>>8560066
I am not a brianlett
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What square? Everything's a rectangle here.
Honestly you could say 5 but that's not a pattern. 1 + 4 = 5, 2 + 3 = 5.
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What is the best place to live a typical nerd/geek/scientific guy life?
Visiting museums, being part of a comfortable middle class... you know, a civilized place that values science and quality of life.
New England? Germany?
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>>8559722
Unless you are a cuck you should be looking outside of Europe.
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>>8559731
Can you be more specific, please?
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switzerland
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Hello class
My nem is DOKtor Pajeet
Today we will learn how to write PRUFS
Get out your pens and pepers and write me some PRUFS
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>>8559701
Will this be on the exam?
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>>8559703
THAT DOESN"T LOOK LIKE A PRUF TO ME, BOI
WHERE IS YOUR PRUF
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3Qjk3t0go
Why they talk so weird mang
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can someone still be classified a "genius" yet not be skilled in math? I always had the perception that in order to be a genius, you inherently had to have a very quantitative brain and be good with numbers. Mozart is generally considered a "genius", but if he was exceptionally bad at math would you still consider him a genius?
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>>8561214
Genius has as much meaning as "quite blue"
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>>8561214
Don't confuse intelligence with knowledge
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>>8561214
mozart is not a "genius", he's a musical genius
"genius" by itself doesn't really mean anything unless you accept it to mean any variety of genius, in which case of course he was "a genius"
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Show me your best sci/Enge/math memes
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an belel trim obhorod to bar bad si neitist teñl leel level torn foo u foo u iknod whst it bro ocitiy is and where u are but electron doesn't know because hridnribier huu vertisntiy relstion
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hey /sci
taking linear algebra course. reached linear transformations.
how do you visualize a vector space when you get to R4, R6 etc?
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>>8561255
In my linear algebra course we only worked with R^n so I guess I would imagine R^n and then set n=4, n=6, etc.
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>>8561255
Think of an electric circuit with 4 or 6 voltages sources. Each is an independent dimension.
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>>8561255
>His poor wittle peabrain can't comprehend higher than R^3
Not gonna make it. Withdraw from your class, brainlet.
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While ebooks are cheaper, I feel like I learn better with physical books.
The feeling of flipping the pages, touching the paper, highlighting sentences and bookmarking, it greatly enhances the experience and it's objectively the superior way to retain information, rather than staring at a bright screen without any elegance or class.
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only real argument physical books have is personal preference.
so shut the fuck up.
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>>8560411
For backing stuff up and changing font size, ebooks are the best. Books can be used anywhere by anyone without any power required. You can drop a book and it will be okay. You can print out your own copies from ebooks without trouble.
>highlighting sentences
KYS
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>>8560411
>I keep a library of pdfs in my iphone
>Carry a variety of mathematics in it
>Whenever I go out and get bored like when waiting in a hospital or when I go too early to uni and have to wait I can simply start casually reading
>It is that easy
Bookfags can't do this. Either read at home or go to a faggot library. Top kek get real m8.
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Is forced starvation a good cure for fatness/"big bone disease"?
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>>8560250
yes.
we could call it DIEet Camp
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>>8560250
Depends on your mental state. Some people can do it easily, some people can't. Just try to eat nothing for two weeks and see whether it's easy for you or not. Personally, I think it's pretty fucking easy, but that's just me.
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Is th universe really deterministic? 2016-12-24 10:14:23 Post No.8560057
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Is th universe really deterministic?
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Is your entire fate really determined at birth by your genes, crystallized intelligence and inherited traits? Or is it possible to do something about it and alter your destiny?
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>>8560057
dumbass should have just moved to the us and become a teacher.
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>>8560057
>Reading University
Well there's your problem
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What were the "knock backs"?
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>to any pharmaceutical engineers lurking
You fix that shit and you'll have enough money to make Elon Musk suck your dick on your way to your Mars mansion.
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Propecia bro. Doesn't "fix" it but it'll halt it for most people; side effect horror stories are an EXTREMELY small amount of people, a majority of which were given a placebo.
Insurance also covers it if you get the larger tabs for muh prostate, just cut them up.
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>>8555337
I hope we never cure balding, as it is a daily reminder to me of my genetic superiority to hairless manlets
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>>8555359
this
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What scientific discoveries and technological achievements are you most looking forward to, and approximately when do you expect them to occur?
Pls no meme answers like 'catgirls'
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>>8554288
Catgirls
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I think new methods of data transfer and storage are coming that will make the current ones seem like dialup and floppy discs. Mostly I'm excited for this so that online multiplayer games can become more complex without lag being an issue. I'd say 3 years minimum, 10 max.
and catgirls
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Gynoids
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Im a clever little boy 2016-12-25 12:30:58 Post No.8561086
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Could you break the speed of light by having a slinky stretched out to the scale of 1 light year between each loop, and then letting go? Keeping in mind the time it takes a normal sized slinky to close the gap is less than a second
I'm no science boy so let me know how retarded retarded or retarded genius I am
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bomp
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>>8561086
>let me know how retarded retarded or retarded genius I am
You are full retarded reatarded
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how? are you gonna steal my idea and sell it to elon musk
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Does the fact that your genes and environment heavily if not completely determine who you are and your capabilities ever bother you?
You will never be able to accomplish tasks that others can simply because they got lucky genetically.
When i find myself struggling to do things i know others can do better than me with minimal effort because of their genes i stop bothering.
How have you learned to deal with these facts?
I forget about it but it always creeps back when i try to learn a skill.
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>>8561002
It sounds like your attitude is holding you back more than this genetic boogeyman anon
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>>8561019
"There are some things that are in one's control, and there are some that are not." - epictetus, nearly 2000 years ago.
Why concern yourself needlessly with what is beyond your control? Why not focus on yourself and do the best that YOU can. Sure, maybe someone else will be better at something or more able based on genetics, but is that a reason you shouldnt try to excel as best you're able?
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>>8561008
I don't think takiing into acount the consequences of the differences in genes that results in individuals having different capabilities is a boogeyman
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well?
possible?
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>>8560694
man that's dumb. fuck rogue one
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>>8560694
>is applying force over time to an object going to alter its trajectory?
Gee op i dunno
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>>8560694
That'll teach them for breaking regulation and flying two 1.6 km long ships 100 m apart.
Every "scifi" movie is retarded, OP. So, don't even bother posting again.