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>>8495279
Because the media tells them it's only for autistic nerds and that you don't need this math to be successful

Also it's better that we keep it likes this or else Math major will become the new CS and i'm sure you don't want that
>inb4 muh sikrit club
We must keep this rate at normal, just teach your kids (if you want ones) how important is math and don't let the normalfag's kids bully the fuck of your kid for being smarter than them

>>8495279
I grew up hating it because all but one of my math teachers made math very uninteresting. I didn't start liking math until my senior year of high school.

This.

>>8495342
same, very true.

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>>8495020
>Ghostbusters flopped
>Brexit passed
>Trump won
>4chan investigates the government for pedophilia
>Gawker BTFO by Hulk Hogan
>Reddit is likely to close
>Cubs won the world series

What an amazing year 2016 has been.

>>8496476
>Reddit is likely to close
what, I haven't heard this??

>>8496476
>Reddit is likely to close

99% of reddit users dont care about that drama.

let me rephrase your question:

>dear anons, i do not know how fractions work
>PLS explain this to me, I'm a retard
t. OP

>>8497493
>>8497493
Also, if you couldn't tell from
>Sent from my iPad
I just cannot stop sucking all the cocks I can get my lips around.

>>8497483
It means that there is a rounding error in the universe source code. As long as you only eat 10mg of salt at a time, you can eat infinite salt

>>8497437
Now these nuclear threads are just spam. Post in the original thread, there's plenty of room.

I'll post anyway I guess.

>Red pill me on nuclear power

>>/thread/8491610#p8496287

>why haven't we banned third world countries from using it?

Because you can't just impose law on a foreign sovereign nation. Is this a serious question? If those countries truly can't handle nuclear power generation then their governments will not produce those plants.

>Red pi-

Nope.

>>8497627
Let me try that quote again

>>>/sci/thread/8491610#p8496287

yes

kill yourself underage

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>>8497302
I'm 21. I've gone back to school after working shitty foodservice job.
I'm not underage.

>>8497286

If you don't learn shit like that you're going to be even more suicidal when you get to the actual hard stuff.

You literally have to be able to do that shit without even thinking

Yes humans are animals. Arrogant and powerful, but still animals.

I mean look at how sex rules our psychology, and how domesticated we are by "the le system maan."
This sounds edgier than i meant it to

>>8497263
>Does anyone ever feel like we are all monkeys and our society is the monkey world from planet of the apes?
yes

>I mean have you ever really listened and compared our languages and laughs to animal noises?
yes. there's a huge scientific literature on this. human language and primate communication are completely different. it's been argued that human language and "animal noises" such as chimpanzee vocalizations are totally unrelated phenomena.

>When we laugh we sound just like monkeys.
well no, they don't, but I could see why as an indiscriminate listener would make that hyperbole.

>>8497263
We are a species of ape.

>>8497240

There are MOOCs aplenty and multiple top unis have prepared free online courses in this-or-that.

If you want it bad enough, you'll find it.

>>8497240
ocw.mit.edu has calc, linear algebra and discrete math.

There are no good real analysis videos (the Francis Su lectures are shit-tier).

Professor Leonard on youtube for calc 1-3

>>8496316
Why would some plates leave driftmarks on the surface of other plates?

they drift over the mantle, that's why the drag marks are left as pathways

>>8496316
Geologists have determined all this movement based on paleomagnetic signatures https://www2.nau.edu/rcb7/ this guy is our most trusted source when it comes to all the recreations of paleogeography

>>8496163
Obviously. Why else do you think Antarctica is almost exclusively populated by scientists?

But seriously though, sage and die in a fire.

>>8496163


Lands of plenty vs lands of scarcity.

Hard men make soft times make soft men make hard times.

No, northern Europeans don't have the highest IQ, western civilisation stems from Greece, southern Europe or Asia, and most of cultural advances came from southern Europe, from countries like Italy

http://www.math.smith.edu/~rhaas/m114-00/chp4taylor.pdf

first order approx of f(x) is just
f(a) + df/dx(a) * (x-a)

notice that you must know f(a) , usually a=0.
The approx holds for a small neighborhood [x-d,x+d]

You probably just need to get used to the notation and learn more about infinite series.
Taylor series are used pretty much everywhere, they're very basic (maybe too much). You're basically approximating the graph of a function with a polynomial function (usually a straight line), as you can guess it's a horrible approximation except in a very small region of the graph.

>>8496144

Thanks for the reply anon, I will ready that pdf and try to figure this out.

>>8496120
>Business Student
Learn LaTex

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>only have two courses
>neither has a final exam
feels good

>>8496044
Are you satisfied to be attending community college?

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>>8496052
comfy graduate school actually

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>>8495921
>People say it's due to increased regulations which increases the cost of building new plants.

>Is this true?

No.

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21578690-thanks-cheap-natural-gas-americas-nuclear-renaissance-hold-fracked

>>8495953
It's not lack of money or profitability that stalled or withdrew those applications
It's the years passing by without getting an approval, hundreds of millions spent on EACH APPLICATION without a spec of real work done on actually building the power plant.

And of course almost all the cost is regulation too

>>8495988
You can't blame them from trying to play safe. Nuclear Liability is a huge issue.

Fukushima cost $40B and rising. That kind of liability demands high amount of regulation.

>>8495741
You should consult an English teacher.

>>8495741

why arent they (((doctors)))?

>>8495741
Learn to string sentences together properly before you decide to talk down on an entire field of study.

And OP, there is a difference between those who deal with the psyche, and those that deal with the physical brain.

>>8495524
Science

>>8495524
Engineering

>>8495524
button pushing?

>>8495345
People are arrogant and fearful.

The models we have work very well for general purposes. There's no reason to think all of it is fundamentally wrong because a couple pieces don't fit quite right.

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>>8495371

But the current models strike me as pretty damn clumsy... Shit, using something like probability densities to try an explain the distribution of a theoretical negative charge? Fucking wave-particle duality? Broad incompatibility between small-scale models and macro-scale models?

So sure, coincidentally a few of these models happened to work and allowed us to build a fucking iPhone, but there hasn't been any new paradigm of understanding proposed since the 1920s...

Why is it so difficult to accept that we have arrived at a limit?

Just like your dog will never learn calculus, humans may never develop an understanding deeper than what we already have.

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>>8495345
shut up you fucking faggot

i fucking HATE people like you

scumbags who claim there is a limit to what is possible

They used to say we could never build a machine that could fly. They used to say the earth was the center of the universe. They used to say we could never make realistic-looking 3D animated water and hair.

Fuck you.