Hi /sci/,
I'm interested in people's passions around these parts. What is your field, and why do you study what you study?
I study economics (I know, I know) because I'm interested in the intersection between human behavior and mathematical modeling of social systems. I think this field is going to see a lot of interesting developments given the increasing popularity of computational tools in social science.
What about you?
>pic unrelated
>>9134939
https://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/hazlittw/ignrnc.htm
Go out and change something
>>9134939
Studied econometrics at undergrad myself. You should check out David Hendry's work if you're interested in more innovative time series analysis!
i was born to do it
also
>me on the right
fucking tight bro
Why haven't the scientific method been used to arrive at the optimal societal/economic/political structure?
Because when you use it, Soviets shitstorm your bunker and force you to commit suicide.
>>9134375
>>9134372
Because humans are imperfect and can't follow an strict set of rules for life. If such system were to exist a lot of people would likely be unhappy.
Can the Fermi paradox be resolved through the assumption that interstellar travel realistically is not possible?
No. Evidence can be transmitted with radio waves.
It's because of interstellar warfare and relativity bombs. Alien cultures want to be stealth so they encrypt their signals.
Pic Related, but it could also be that reality itself could be manipulated and maybe aliens are doing this instead of travelling within our universe. Kind of like the matrix or something.
On a sidenote: Anyone know how much time dilation a person would experience close to the event horizon of a black hole?
They're using directed radio waves to communicate that exclude earth
Why do most Asians wear glasses? If bad eyesight is in their genes, wtf did they do before glasses were invented?
There may be genetic reasons. Or the fact that they are subject to long hours reading and writing from an early age.
In the past there was no this mania "education for the masses", kek. Near-sightedness is limited to the very few who could read at all. And they did not write in such small shape which helps.
>>9133161
To make their eyes look bigger.
Distance focusing is the result of muscles squeezing your eyes in different directions. The ones for looking far away atrophy if you don't use them.
>>9132882
Why are there so many edgy effete dilettante misanthropic nihilists on /sci/ nowadays?
Leave, for goodness' sake.
>>9132871
>1) SENS
>*power gap*
>9000) metformin, rapamycin
>9001) parabiosis
>9002) telomerase
>9003) caloric restriction
>>9132890
That's more like it!
Thank you, anon.
Planning to start with bachelor Econometrics this year (similar to econ + math study combined, heavily math based). Do you guys have any advice for me to succeed in this study?
linear algebra and statistics, right?
>>9132198
Yeah, do exercises. A lot. There's a lot of tests you have to memorise too, luckily we were permitted to have a small handbook detailing them though.
Gonna hijack this thread, what are the best economic textbooks?
Thinking of getting Alain Andertons book and Mankiws
What is the prototypical "STEM" degree? One that encompasses all 4 fields and requires you to be educated in all 4 (preferably as evenly as possible, but I know that probably doesn't exist)
>>9129499
Quad degree in biochemistry, computer science, mechanical engineering, and pure math
>>9129499
actually some undergrad at my uni told me today she has an associate's degree in "general STEM"
>>9129499
I don't know, but I am trying to get a Ph.D. in human biology. Please give me the name of the girl so that I can begin researching for my thesis immediately.
Let's say there's a dog really close to the event horizon of a black hole. And there is a man with a really huge spyglass that stretches from Earth to close of that same event horizon. The picture illustrates the situation. Looking through the spyglass, and considering time dilation, what will the man see? Will he see the dog from the perspective of Earth's time (in slow mo) or from the perspective of the dog's own time ("normal" time)? What exactly is going on here? What Mechanics, phenomena etc are involved?
>>9137863
It's the fucking same thing as looking at it from the earth. The spyglass doesn't do shit to the speed or direction the light's traveling in except make it look bigger
>>9137867
But the man would be looking directly at the dog (through the spyglass). Not from Earth. So he would see the dog from the dog's perspective of time. Not Earth's.
>>9137873
No. The light travels from the dog to the person. That's how vision works.
Going through a telescope does not change the speed at which the information propogates, and does not change the underlying mechanics of the light. It just bounces around the inside of the telescope for a while instead of empty space.
If so, any ideas?
If not, any geology fags know why rock would form like this with a web pattern?
No, mudcracks.
>>9137548
Yup, mudcracks. Joints filled with mud. Still cool.
>>9137548
that looks like a denisovian gymnophagic fernomorph fossil
you should contact a local archaeobotany professor, this could be big if true
It seems to be the closest thing to a hybrid of the two I have seen.
Am currently a brainlet with most of my little knowledge being historical and social while having random tidbits of information of everything.
Trying to learn more about science because it is part of my quest for self improvement and I want a good fallback in case my ventures in life fail.
I am thinking that economics degree, combined with my father being a private mortgage banker at a large bank for 20 years, will give me a cushy thing to crash on.
>>9137390
Psychology is.
>>9137390
Manufacturing is.
>>9137397
This
I need a little help here,
my little brother came up to me asking for the answers for this and I didn't know how to answer
can anyone help quickly?
Go to SQT
do you know what completing the square means ?
completing the square is to the quadratic formula what point-slope form is to slope-intercept form.
[eqn]\left(x\,+\,\frac32\right)^2\,+\,\frac74[/eqn]
[eqn]\left(x^2\,-\,1\right)^2\,+\,4[/eqn]
[eqn]\left(x\,-\,2\right)^2\,+\,\frac13[/eqn]
I won't help you more. Homework threads belong to >>>/hm/.
Help me prove a point. Rent is $1342. Split evenly the rent is $671 each. Roommate A is promised to pay $100 MORE THAN Roommate B. However, Roommate A has been paying $771 for 12 months and Roommate B has been paying $571 for 12 months. At the end of the year how much does Roommate B owe Roommate A and why?
1200$ because roommate A has been paying 100 dollars more than roommate B :D
>>9137360
er, 1200 bucks difference.
obviously it's 200 bucks more than roommate B. 100 bucks more would be 621 and 721. regardless, both are morons for not being able to do simple math.
>>9137360
50*12=600$
Because if we take 50 from the amount A payed and add it to the amount B payed (effectively giving 50$ from B to A) then the rents balance out
Just read that it is not known for certain how quickly you stop feeling pain. You could be shot in the heart and because the brain has 4 minutes of oxygen you could die in agony not moving. Is this true?
>>9137289
Completely depends. Pain is an emotion. Many people who are shot go unconscious fairly quickly from the shock, and if you're not conscious then you're not feeling pain.
>>9137289
Qualia aren't real in the first place. Pain is a behavior.
>>9137330
i want to agree, but please explain
What is a number?
A representation of quantity
A notion in a syntactical framework (one with many semantic realizations) that fulfulls structural properties in the context of other such entities.
That's what I would say. But there's a very influential paper by Richard Dedekind (must be over 130 years old now) with that exact name. "Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen?"
>>9137269
Nothing, just like everything else
What's the point of memorizing a bunch of integration techniques if most models/functions that describe real world phenomenons can only be integrated numerically?
>>9137254
You utilize basic integration techniques on the most simple problems to get some intuition behind the solutions of the equations.
For all the others, you've got numerical solutions.
>>9137254
>what's the point of learning the multiplication table when you can just press a god damn button on a calculator
>>9137260
the problems are carefully hand-picked for students, the set of unsolvable integrals is much much larger than the set of solvable ones, one typo can make a simple problem impossible unless you do it numerically.