Mechanical Engineer sophomore here. Convince me to switch into Computer Science.
>>8439757
just pick up a few programming languages instead. same thing pretty much.
We have a fuck load of job opportunities and with or without a degree. Fags will say "but if you do it for the money you're not contributing shit." Just let the Ferrari you will get talk for itself my bro. Computer science is gold in this century and the next.
mechanical engineering is a shit tier meme field
ps. i dropped out of CS after 3rd year and make over $200k freelancing.
Evolution ***should*** have just yielded organisms which strictly ate & replicated quickly.
The first self replicating molecule, ie, first organism, would replicate and produce many offspring. A mutation would occur for one the offspring molecules which would **somehow in one way or another** allow it to replicate more efficiently than the other molecules, causing said offspring molecule to be more relevant in the gene pool. This should continue for thousands of generations.
The result would simply be a blob of self replicating matter, and NOT complex, multi cellular, organisms.
Anyone care to explain why we did not evolve into a blob of self replicating matter which eats shit and replicates?
>>8439664
Basically, you're asking about how we went from a mass of DNA to individual cells.
To understand why cells evolved, you need to look at the environment from a gene's perspective. Genes which could protect themselves from the environment, assuming a normal rate of copying fecundity, would become more prevalent in the gene pool. Therefore, a gene with a random mutation to build a small membrane around itself would be more successful. This is the origin of the individual organism out of the collective "gene pool" Essentially, the genes started building "survival machines" for themselves which increased their chance of survival compared to their free-floating brothers.
limited resources leads to environmental competition
>>8439664
>The result would simply be a blob of self replicating matter, and NOT complex, multi cellular, organisms.
Why?
Random blobs of growth aren't that great. They need abundant food and energy or they starve, and they have no real means to avoid being eaten.
Do we have a degree ranking based on what will make more wet a female?
I assume finance, economics or anything banking related will make vaginas moist the most.
true alphas don't need the recognition of academic weaklings
a degree is a certification of betaness
>>8439511
that doesn't answer my question fucking idiot.
>>8439500
i once told a girl that i was a math major with a concentration on pure math, doing research on rational trig and triple integrals
she had to change her pants several times after that
Post a more insufferable faggot.
Protip: you can't.
>>8439429
Come on, Nye is bad, but not this bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Mf5UBFvH4
Trying to set up an excel formula for a scoring card system for my local archery club... Can't figure out how to nest formula IFAND type stuff... Pic for example - Scoring system works on the first of three arrows to hit a scoring zone (A, B or C) and scores go down according to arrow and zone - a formula that was offered to me was, this, but excel says it's invalid and it won't compute...
=IF(AND(B3=1;C3="A");20;IF(AND(B3=1;C3="B");18;IF(AND(B3=1;C3="C");16;IF(AND(B3=2;C3="A");14;IF(AND(B3=2;C3="B");12;IF(AND(B3=2;C3="C");10;IF(AND(B3=3;C3="A");8;IF(AND(B3=3;C3="B");6;IF(AND(B3=1;C3="C");4)))
>>8439053
>using excel
Consider purchasing some tweed and getting knot tying lessons
>>8439065
Cheers - probably not much help with the formula though
>>8439053
Try this formula
=IF(B3=1,IF(C3="A",20,IF(C3="B",18,IF(C3="C",16))),IF(B3=2,IF(C3="A",14,IF(C3="B",12,IF(C3="C",10))),IF(B3=3,IF(C3="A",8,IF(C3="B",6,IF(C3="C",4))))))
Most of us see time as an eternal river, constantly flowing, doesn't it bug everyone that we have such a concrete, decided view of such a strange and undecipherable topic? What if the many-world interpretation was a truth? As the major hoax from John Titor said back in 2000, no paradoxes can occur, and we wouldn't be aware of time-travelers. Let's gather our thoughts. Mine are simple, and will be developed if asked: -Time isn't a unique river, rather an infinity of parallel rivers all flowing in the same direction. All dimensions in the multiverse. If we were to travel through time to change something, I believe that the line we arrived in wouldn't be altered, rather that the "current" time as we would refer to it would shift to another parallel world.
Yea I watched Steins;Gate too
Sure, Steins;Gate is a huge inspiration. But don't you think this is a topic worth talking about?
>>8439045
The many world interpretation is entirely speculation, and is often used as excuses for why people are shit. "don't worry anon, in some other univers you are actually successful and happy!" <-- fuck these guys
To put it simply... Time is a lake. There is no direction of flow, and save for enthropy, it works in any direction. Backwards, forwards, sideways, direction does not matter, only destination.
Did any of you see the end of interstellar? spoiler alert:
The protagonist enters a black-hole and tranceds into the 4th dimension. His motion in space is now motion through space-time and he is able to traverse and endless number of "frames" to reality. Much the same, a lake of photographs in order form left to right is what time is like, it just looks like it is moving because we see change, because we are temporal, because we are mortal.
If we were 4th dimensional beings, time would be another dimension of space we could walk across...
Are these shitty jewy internships really fucking necessary? I mean in the field of actuarial science.
I thought how it worked was you spend thousands of hours studying for the specialised actuary exams at that institute thing and then get selected based on competence, not ((work experience)) and ((networking))
Sorry to break it to you.
Work experience and networking are how everythign works in every field.
Competence is tertiary at best.
lol, another autist who thought sitting in his room studying all day would be enough to get him places
who you know > what you know
>>8439037
Then what's the point of us going to school and sitting exams for so many years when really all we have to do is ask our friend's dad for a job?
Unreality is putting a human into a fully conscious dream state with their body paralyzed.
The necessary state afterwards is to hook them up to extension hardware and software that can save ideas and thoughts they have and interface with the senses.
In this environment, you would be able to fully experience anything. You could eat and taste limitless amounts of food, fuck anything you imagine, play out any scenario, and have full lucid consciousness while in a dream state. In addition, extensions would allow you to save thought states and imagine anything.
All work would generally be done in unreality. Such as any design, content creation, and otherwise. It differs from VR in the fact that your own imagination builds the worlds and the external hardware is only to extend this capability.
Just for an example, a single person could create an entire episodic fantasy series in a few days and output it for anyone to watch. A single current video game that takes huge teams could be done in a few weeks by a child. It will also extend any reasoning ability by freeing up huge active memory space and allow you to literally "feel" equations and see algorithms in any sort of abstraction you can imagine.
>>8438986
You don't even know what a dream is do you?
You can't experience things in a dream that you haven't experienced prior in reality you know...
A dream is only the product of the brain undergoing a maintenance of its memories which unintentionally fires neurons to create a strange image at random...
>>8438987
>A dream is only the product of the brain undergoing a maintenance of its memories which unintentionally fires neurons to create a strange image at random...
This hypothesis has not been rigorously tested. It's certainly plausible but we don't really have the tools to verify it.
>>8438994
I know but I just want OP to know that there will not be a "dream-machine" in the near future.
Does it have to do with practicing sports? Like I'm 19 and if I play basketball, does my height increase?
go back to statistics 101, just because most basketball players are tall it doesnt mean youll get taller by playing it
>>8438901
>be 182½, 19 years old
>dad was 185
Would it be possible for me to still gain a couple of cm's?
>>8438976
Yes, go visit a doctor if you want to know for sure.
hi guys please include art please PLEEEEEEEEEASE
art is dead
this is a funny meme
There is no "TEAM" in "STEAM"
Kek. This reeks of desperation.
Stay mad Artfags.
I just failed my fucking Parasitology test and feel like an utter subhuman failure. Does failing a test mean you're stupid?
It does if its a biology test.
>Does failing a test mean you're stupid?
No but posting anime pictures does
It represents an underlying problem with your personal time management and study skills. Shape up or get fucked.
Do you guys think the island of stability is a thing? What would such super-heavy elements look like? What would their propreties be? Is there anyway to even guess?
>>8438566
Maybe.
No idea.
No idea.
Probably not.
island of stability is just a meme
a few seconds is "stable" compared to the ~nanosecond scale of the other high mass elements
we aren't getting any exotic new materials anytime soon this way
>>8438566
Stable Trans-Uranium elements would make amazing bullets and artilery material.
How do you even keep the focus?
How do you support the lack of sleep?
And don't tell me you can function with 5 hours a day. Nobody will work with a 5 hour night of sleep as well as a 9 hour long night of sleep.
>>8438513
I don't.
I just take the path of least action in every aspect of life just like a photon does.
t. assistant scientist at a corporate R&D facility making a comfy $75k a year
>>8438513
>http://www.din.today/prof-c-k-raju-decolonizing-mathematics-leads-to-better-mathematics/
fear of not getting into a good phd program
All my classes end by 3 and start by 9. So i dont study 6 hours, but 4 hours is completely managable.
http://www.din.today/prof-c-k-raju-decolonizing-mathematics-leads-to-better-mathematics/
read this
anyone?
“In school our children are being taught two conflicting systems of mathematics. In primary school they learn to calculate in an empirical way: one apple and one apple makes two apples. But later on they they are told that is wrong, and learn some formal mathematics where you postulate some axioms and use the deductive method to arrive at conclusions from the axioms. This makes matters very complicated: Whitehead and Bertrand Russell took 368 pages to deductively prove 1+1=2 in their book. Decolonised mathematics eliminates this needless complexity and accepts the natural and empirical way; it is simple and easy.”
“First of all, I don’t use the term ‘Eurocentric’ because it wrongly suggests that a massive piece of deliberate mischief was an innocent mistake. Second there is nothing wrong with the method of deduction as such, which was used also, for example, in India. Of course, attributing this syllogism to Aristotle is the usual false Western history: there is nil evidence to link the syllogism to Aristotle. What is uniquely Western and wrong are the claims that (a) deduction is infallible, (b) that it is universal (c) that deductive proof is superior to empirical proof, and that (d) it is possible to arrive at valid knowledge without any empirical inputs, as in formal mathematics. All these wrong claims lead to the wrong belief that Western (formal) mathematics is superior and the only right way to do mathematics.”
If photons are waves, how can one photon travel across the space without spreading outwards like a spherical wave on the surface of water?
How can an EM wave be compact and without spread?
inb4 wave-particle duality meme
>>8438423
They do, when you have groups of them.
You can't when you have only one. Its like asking why an electron doesn't spread out as it travels.
>>8438427
>wave particle duality
>meme