look at this
I'm looking.
>>8538024
what about it
Is that book not just a meme, but actually good?
I scraped by Linear Algebra this semester, and am pissed at myself. Over break want to read up on Linear Algebra.
Why haven't seafloor mountains eroded into nothing with the constant water on them?
>>8538000
Well, with depth in the water, the rate of erosion would decrease significantly because of lack of overall movement. Usually only the upper layers of the water are effected by currents and winds, while the lower layers aren't. Then you have precipitation and mass wasting events on the upper parts of the Islands which erodes Islands pretty rapidly in terms of geological time.
Mass wasting still occurs underwater with sea slumps and whatnot over time, you can see a lot of evidence of this in places like Hawaii and coastlines in general such as the west coast of NA.
So yes they are eroding slowly over time, just slower than the rates of erosion on the upper surfaces, which is why volcanic Islands after their volcanism ends simply erode away into coral atolls, in which the volcano has completely eroded away, leaving its fringe reefs behind which can keep up with the erosion / sea level rise due to limestone secretion and vertical movement upwards by the reefs.
>>8538015
Nerd
>>8538000
The first law of thermodynamics. Erode just means to wash away. It's not disappearing faggot.
>be me
>recently published a paper solving an open problem in my field; could very well have real effects on society in the next 10 years
>name mentioned alongside the problem on Wikipedia now and everything
The goal is generally to do something of note, isn't it? This feels so empty. I'm going to continue to work on interesting problems, but this whole publication chasing bit is just not worth the effort.
Has anybody else on /sci/ been in this position?
>>8537839
Post Wikipedia link or you're a bigger hack than Nietzsche and visually confirm that is your work/you.
>>8537839
that's huge anon! Congratulations!
What's the problem/field? Have you thought about turning it into a business?
>>8537840
I will maintain my anonymity while on 4chan, thanks. The point of this thread isn't to bolster my own recognition, but to prod at how other people have felt after having done something that should grant some sense of accomplishment.
For the record, this paper underwent major peer review both at my place of employment (a sizable institution very sensitive about its reputation) and during the submission process. I also presented this paper at a large, notable conference, and it was accepted well by all of the attendees. I have no doubt in the quality of my work.
SICP should be taught in HS.
Y/N?
there are enough non scientific subjects in HS, why add one more?
>>8537591
Y
it will turn people off to comp sci
and we need less incompetents in this field
>>8537616
>computer """science"""
Fucking economics is more scientific than CS.
That said, it should be taught, but as part of math rather than a science on its own.
It can replace calculus.
Alright, let's say my mother is 33% "something" and the other 67% is irrelevant. Then let's say my father is irrelevant and does not have anything percent of "something" What percent of "something" would I have? Sorry if this doesn't belong here.
what is half of 33?
>>8537438
16.5%, you are not white
How can you be a third of an ethnicity? Do you have three parents? Like two italian parents, and one greek?
The denominator is always a multiple of two for a reason.
What does it mean by this?
>>8536615
It means that [math]log_3(x)[/math] is not defined for any x <0, so the inequality is not strictly true.
>>8536629
undefined =/= undefined?????????????
>>8536615
logs of negatives are complex
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=log(3,-4),+log(1%2F3,+-1%2F4)
Can we have a thread on legal grey area/unethical experiments?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair
I'm looking for an experiment where a human is deprived of all their senses from birth and isolated.
>>8536408
sure cause you could believe Tesla when all he did was talk non-sense
>>8536408
>tfw to smart for math
Those poor little monkeys, this is terrible to read.
If Nietzsche was so smart, then why didn't he do math?
>>8535473
Because he wasn't smart, he was a platitude spouting autist who normies venerate because they love to LARP being intellectuals.
>>8535473
if einstein is so smart, why is he dead?
>>8535473
Not everyone learns to love math and that doesn't preclude them from being intelligent members of society.
Calculator thread
>using a calculator
lmao brainlets
>useless casio calculator
why even brag about it, at all?
it's like bragging about a tiny dick
Math, Physics, Chemistry.
What's the easiest to get a PhD in?
>>8533240
I mean, math is probably a lot less competitive than Chem and Physics, since I assume less people want to major in it. Anyone want to confirm?
Physics is just applied mathematics, chemistry is just applied physics
>>8533245
I hope this is true.
Time Continuum (Sci-fi Riddle).
In the time continuum, you can go forward, or backward in time!
If you go back in time, you change the future; and when going forward in time, you leave parts of the past unchanged (you're missing).
You speak to four characters on your way to the Time Continuum.
The first, second and third characters, do not tell you their names; but the fourth character, tells you it's name, 'Time 4', and after, you're in the Time Continuum.
Time 4 advises you, "change as little as possible".
Question:
How do you escape (or normalize) the Time Continuum, at this point?
There's something I don't like about you...
CaCaaaw!
I've been researching Pornography and whether or not NoFap is bullshit. It's full of anecdotal evidence. I looked up the author of "your brain on porn" (Gary Wilson)and there's nothing about it. All I got was that he was a science teacher.
Now on the other hand, this guy called David J Ley Ph.D. Who has a PHD says that porn isn't bad. And that it's "porn addiction" is just a symptom.
Obviously masturbation is healthy and there is science to prove that. But there doesn't seem to be any concrete evidence that Porn is bad.
Starting to think it's just like alcohol. Where it's bad for you but only impacts your life if you let it. And that abstaining from it would be best. The phd guy says thought that porn doesn't cause ED. But noporn dude says that it does. However, phd guy's books don't get good reviews while nofap does. That could probs be explained by their cult behaviour.
>researching
>>8527981
>I've been researching Pornography
it doesn't affect your brain at a fundamental level per se, but it changes your response to chemicals that affect bonding in human relationships. basically it's not bad for YOU but it's bad for your future love life
What's the hardest part of Calc II and how can I make it easier for myself? I've heard two different opinions about Calc II:
1. It's the hardest course in the calculus series, because it moves fast and is so much shit thrown at you at once
2. It's incredibly easy because it's just knowing a bunch of integration techniques and recognizing which to apply when looking at an integral, of which it's IBP or trig subsititution 95% of the time
Which is correct?
>>8538292
Nigga just watch professor leanards calc 2 series on youtube and youll get no lower than a B.
I personally got an A this semester.
>>8538292
Just work untill you get it. Unless you're a diagnosed retard you'll get it eventually.
Somewhat related question from a calc 1 fag
I'm up all night cramming for my final. Should I even bother studying weird shit like Simpson's Rule or Riemann sums? Is there any chance they'll actually turn up on the final or is it all gonna be calc fundamentals?
I have a good grasp of everything I 100% know is going to be on there but I'm not sure what to spend the time I have left on - practice more of the basics or try to learn some of the weird extra shit?
THEY GAVE IT A HEAD
THE ABSOLUTE MADMEN
>>8538201
nice link buttkid
>>8538201
Nice five month old video, cunt bucket.
How smart do you have to be to read/understand Euclid's Elements?
you have to finish multivariable calculus by the end of highschool before you even think of reading that
I liked that part in the movie Lincoln where Lincoln's waiting for a telegram chatting with an engineer, and cites Euclid's Elements, realizing that Hamiilton was quoting from him when they used the line "We hold these truths to be self evident..."
>>8537914
>how smart do i have to be to understand dumb dumb maths from 2000 yeras ago because the people 2000 years ago must be sooo much smarter than us in {Current_Year}