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Sounds important and hard. You'll make a lot of money

>>8544835
its just ee and mech

>>8544841
Sounds difficult

What is true selflessness? Taking only what you need?

some might think they're selfless, but they're just delusional

>>8544761

Yes it exists. Prooftext: some people really do throw themselves on grenades to save others.

Sounds like a dumb meme to me.

Everything is at the top of its evolutionary chain...

The only indicator of winning evolution is to be here.

>>8544596
Let me just play the devil advocate with this analogy...
Think of two type of digital cameras with two different settings:

1. A low-light (long exposure) setting
2. A high speed setting.

Both cameras had different traits and they are specialized for different purposes.

A long exposure camera setting allows us to see in a much darker light range and is much better of at capturing images in the dark but it lacks the ability to capture thing moving at a fast speed as they turn out to be blurs. Is also overexposes and is useless in a bright environment.


In contrast, a high speed camera can capture fast moving targets clearly. This comes at the expense that the camera must be placed in a bright environment with lots of light otherwise it underexposes and the image is useless.


But consider this, supposed you were to spend more money on a higher end camera with a quality sensor that had a very high ISO. In this case you would not only have a camera that could capture images in low light setting but could also capture at a high speed.

My argument is equivalent to expanding the Pareto frontier and increasing production in all areas. The ideas is similar to how disruptive technologies can render previously existing tradeoffs obsolete. How does this not, in an evolutionary view, correspond to a more evolved creature?

>>8544583
If you're so smart and such a critical thinker, why can't you recognize some basic the patterns you low IQ brainlet ?

>>8544583
No, it's genetic.
And no one here is that smart.
Educated =/= intelligent

>>8544597
I mean, I don't even know what my IQ is, and I don't think that's too important(maybe I'm wrong). People like Einstein, Newton, and Von Neumann aren't famous because of their high IQs, rather they're famous because of their achievements.

Is it possible for a dumbass to have incredible achievements that could be put in comparison to the dudes above?

>>8544455
If you want to teach don't let salty people who chose money over passion derail you anon

>>8544455
I'm not a teacher, but 2 of my buddies are high school music teachers and they both love it.

>>8544455
i just got done teaching my first semester (i'm a grad student). I balled my eyes out yesterday, I'm going to miss those kids. Also note, I taught for resume boost purposes and ended up loving it

>>8544096
O.p = f.g√t

G constant is probably the first line of the code

>>8544103
>G constant
You just humiliated yourself by bumping my thread

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Come on friendos, don't be frightened to show your inner retardation

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Come on guys, will you leave me alone in the brainlet club?

>>8543797

I honestly have no idea

>>8543740
>Dawkins
He is """"literally"""" a meme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tIwYNioDL8

>>8543740

>book of anecdotes, opinions, and appeals to authority
>"scientific book"

not really

bioinformatics is a tool for biologists/biochemists
for example a software that contains a complete dna code of a specie, so instead of having to write all the base-pairs down they can just use a database

as a programmer it would be just like any other field, you make develop a software that's it
regardless of its function, you won't help solve any bio related issues

>>8543663
You talking about bioinformatics software as used biologists and biochemists, which is really within the scope of those disciplines and not the field of bioinformatics itself.

It's like saying there aren't many interesting problems to solve in cartography because you won't help explore the world.

In the field of bioinformatics proper there are many interesting, domain-specific problems to solve both on the algorithmic level (e.g. in genome assembly) and in fiddly high-performance implementation details which could be of interest a computer scientist and programmer.

Sure. Dedicated bioinformatics researchers are mostly CS/math transplants who are applying high-level information and CS theory to biological problems. Some of them don't even touch biological data ever, they just work on tool development.

If you think you can eke out a little more algorithmic efficiency from mapping alogrithms or statistical modeling, then go for it. Everyone in biology would be grateful.

>>8543340
>How do plants 'know" what evolutional traits to develop?

They don't. The traits they develop are random and the useful ones hang around

>>8543340
same way animals know

>>8543346
So everything not having these traits just went extinct?

Please give me citation if possible.

Perhaps you're allergic to something in the air and the claratin helps that?

>>8543034
What is odd is that the warts will form in areas that get wounded, like papercuts or scratches that drew blood.

>>8543020
Shit, you know I think I might actually know.
So the chemical in claritin is some lipid that is basically in the same category as accutane. Accutane can treat not just regular acne, but its good for really weird skin shit. Like sebaceous cysts and stuff like that. So that could be it. I'm in bed ill check my notes on this tomorrow

>>8542879
blow it out your ass, cockswipe.

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>>8542879
It's a nerve. Inside the brain of GOD.

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what's inside the voids?

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>150 million tons of smoke in the stratosphere would cause minimum daily temperatures in the largest agricultural regions of the Northern Hemisphere to drop below freezing for 1 to 3 years. Nightly killing frosts would occur and prevent food from being grown.
>Average global precipitation would be reduced by 45% due to the prolonged cold.
>Growing seasons would be virtually eliminated for many years.
>Massive destruction of the protective ozone layer would also occur, allowing intense levels of dangerous UV light to penetrate the atmosphere and reach the surface of the Earth.
>Massive amounts of radioactive fallout would be generated and spread both locally and globally. The targeting of nuclear reactors would significantly increase fallout of long-lived isotopes.
>Gigantic ground-hugging clouds of toxic smoke would be released from the fires; enormous quantities of industrial chemicals would also enter the environment.
>It would be impossible for many living things to survive the extreme rapidity and degree of changes in temperature and precipitation, combined with drastic increases in UV light, massive radioactive fallout, and massive releases of toxins and industrial chemicals.
>Already stressed land and marine ecosystems would collapse.
>Unable to grow food, most humans would starve to death.
>A mass extinction event would occur, similar to what happened 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs were wiped out following a large asteroid impact with Earth (70% of species became extinct, including all animals greater than 25 kilograms in weight).
>Even humans living in shelters equipped with many years worth of food, water, energy, and medical supplies would probably not survive in the hostile post-war environment.

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/sci/, what do you think, will it really be so horrible?

Sounds groovy. There is a school of communism called Posadism that encourages nuclear hellfire as a means to destroy capitalism and bring about conditions necessary to build communism. kek

it is faggot

>>8542605
It is. a/b is how many times you can subtract b from a.

It is

>>8542584
Euclidean geometry

arithmetic

linear algebra