Do you buy new books every semester?
Rent?
Or do ebook-textbooks?
Registered for my final semester and just my textbooks alone will run $1200
Not sure if worth it to buy just to add to bookshelf collection
Buy the basics (for me as a med fag: anatomy, physiology...) and rent those who are useful only to pass your exams.
>>8438334
I only buy books with 100% refund return policies. I take pictures of every single page of the book and return the book.
>>8438334
>buying books
You realize genlib exists right?
do there exist non-plant cells that can produce sugar?
>>8438276
my liver. and kidneys.
>>8438287
dont they just extract glucose from food?
>>8438276
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosynthesis
can space mining change the world?
>>8437904
Yes if it wasn't so fucking expensive and time consuming currently.
Let's try it when we get better technology.
>>8437926
But we'll be dead by then.
>>8437904
Not any time soon. It's a distractive ruse like the journey to Mars. Our day to day is a tangled mess of complexity and neglect. We've bought into Silicon Valley's rhetoric parroted by intellectuals making twitter clones. Outer space is really about tripping neurotransmitters like a bunch of junkies who can't deal with reality. Simulation much? Human civilization are the bearers of cavemen tech propped up almost exclusively on exploiting hydrocarbon reserves, and subsequently, all other natural resources.
People who talk about asteroid mining have no clue how mining happens on Earth.
Is there any way to prove that light is a constant?
no, it varies a lot.
>>8437908
how so?
>>8437918
it decreases when the sun sets, for one
Why is the Riemann/Darboux Integral still taught in undergrad analysis classes? The lebesgue integral is much more useful and is only slightly more complicated when first learning it.
Afterwards it is actually easier.
>>8437856
Would you mind teaching it to us now? I can at least visualize rectangles, what am I and the rest of us brainlets supposed to think when doing a Lebesgue integral?
>>8437856
spoiler: if the domain of integration is unbounded then there are riemann integrable functions which are not lebesgue integrable.
>>8438101
correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it rather the Kurzweil-Henstock integral ?
my intuition says since
T(2^m) = T(2^(m-1)) + 2^(m^2)
then
T(2^(m-1)) = T(2^(m-2)) + 2^(m^2)
...
which gives a telescoping effect giving us
T(2^m) = T(2^0) + 2^(m^2) * 2^m
which I think simplifies to ( log_{2} n )^2 + log_{2} n but this doesnt seem to be an answer, can someone show me what im doing wrong
>>8437663
Since this is a multiple choice question, you can just test each one to see whether it satisfies the recurrence.
Also (2^m)^2 is 2^{2m}, not 2^{m^2}
And your second equation should be
T(2^{m-1})=T(2^{m-2})+2^(2*(m-1))
>>8437674
>Since this is a multiple choice question, you can just test each one to see whether it satisfies the recurrence.
True... but I actually want to learn something
hmm, how would I simplify, 2^m + 2^(2m - 2) + 2^(2m-4) . . . + 2^(0 - 2) ? Im not very good at maths. Would it be:
2^2m + 2^(2m -2) + 2^(2m-4) . . . .
factoring out 2^2m
2^2m(1 + 2^-2 + 2^-4 + 2^- 8 . . . (Idk what the last 2^(m-1)th term would be)
2^2m(1 + harmonic series??)
? lost idk how to get 4/3(n^2 - 1)
>>8437711
Yeah that's the right idea.
To figure out the last term, test a simple case like m=1. In this case, T(2^1)=T(1)+2^2.
Similarly, for m=2, T(2^2)=T(2)+2^{4}=T(1)+2^4+2^2. So your sum should stop at 2^2, not 2^(-2). And to get the answer just remember that n=2^m.
I got an electrical engineering degree and an MBA. I've been working as a process engineer in a paper factory for 3 years now. I took the job hoping to move to the Power area, and then move a power plant. We have 3 large steam turbines and produce about 65 MWs.
A lot of my friends don't get why I work here. The work and the old equipment don't bother me. But fuck if I don't get tired of some of the people.
I was working with a supposed chemical engineer yesterday that had been here like 30 or 40 years? Bitch doesn't understand correlations. Or what an R value means. Like they are talking about A causing B causing C causing D, and they have a meeting on it, and we only have digital meters on A and D, so I pull the data and run a correlation on it and send it to them, "yeah, there is some correlation here. The process is worth looking into" and she acts like I'm nuts "A doesn't cause D, what are you thinking?" And I repeat her own words to her, and "yeah, thats true." Like what the fuck woman, you don't understand a fucking scatter plot?
And today she's cutting me off in meetings to talk about what she knows and acting like I'm stupid and I'm sitting there looking at the fucking config files and shit in my notebook. Its right there.
I guess what I'm getting at is I really get tired of the humongous chip older employees have against new STEM. They want you to know everything, and do it on the spot, and treat you like you are stupid for shit they don't understand. I work from like 6:30 AM to 8 PM a lot of days. And I do a lot of shit well.
I mean jesus christ, these people can't get their pics off their cellphones but they want to talk to me like I'm stupid for not remembering 1 of 35,000 different flows at the facility.
Alot of boomer-ish cucks don't comprehend numerical methods. It looks like witchcraft to them. It scares them because they know you can do what would be a year's worth of work for them in like a day. They know they're obsolete, but don't want to admit it.
Just be as patient as you can with them. You'll be in their shoes some day, and you'll probably be a grouch about it too.
>>8437662
>Just be as patient as you can with them. You'll be in their shoes some day, and you'll probably be a grouch about it too.
I have a hard time dreaming up what I could have trouble with that the kids of tomorrow will understand. Maybe there will be a paradigm shift and they will give up on jobs and not understand why I make stuff and don't come live in the woods and eat squirrels.
"Look at you old man, with your math and job and bills. I'm an old man *doop doop dur dee*"
>>8437662
there's alot of managers that "just can't do math", but are in charge of a lot of technical people
Why has /sci/ degraded into shitposting? When I look at a thread, I literally see bullshit answers just because they don't agree with OP's question.
>>8437493
>on 4chan
>not expecting to get memed
>>8437509
Would it be worth it to move somewhere else?
>>8437517
Move from your moms basement and into my slave dungeon. I will destroy that boipussy and that feminine dick
>mfw math retarded
Seriously is this actually possible? I think of myself as someone above average intelligence, my problem starts with numbers. I have a hard time adding 5 to 3, I dont know how to divide, multiplication is a chore. Anything that require math makes my brain give out and I phase out.
Any bros willing to help me out with my problem, maybe lend out some guidance?
> I think of myself as someone above average intelligence
>. I have a hard time adding 5 to 3, I dont know how to divide, multiplication is a chore
You think wrong. You're not math retarded. You're actually just plain retarded.
>>8437392
Just do khanacademy. Pretty sure he covers low level stuff like addition and multiplication.
>>8437392
This is some bad bait.
Someone please explain what a 'brainlet' is to me
Anyone who uses /sci/.
>>8437357
Anyone who fell for the STEM meme
>>8437357
You.
What's your favourite planet, /sci/? Mine's Mercury.
>>8437257
INB4 pluto
>>8437257
Earth.
neptune
Calculus.
Who did it, afterall?
>>8437119
archimedes
In my fanfiction, Newton and Leibniz make sweet sweet love and calculus is the resulting child.
>>8437119
Ramen-nude-chan
If time traveling was possible we'd already have been visited by time travelers from the future
>>8437078
>ayy lmaos are highly evolved humans from million years into the future
Checkmate pleb
>>8437078
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
/Thread.
>>8437087
How likely is it that time travelling is possible if we haven't received any visitors from the future? Highly unlikely
The ideal age for marriage is 30-40 for men, 12-16 for girls. Prove me wrong.
>>8437065
Define ideal.
>>8437071
Bestest.
Opinions are by definition not scientific.
Please fuck off.
Help a fellow out mates.
> first year of college
> calculus I
> all fine and dandy
> Dem proofs though
This is the thing. I have never ever done anything even remotely proof-like before. My HS teacher was pura mierda and she never even did as much as introduce them. Now the problem isn't really following as the professor does them. It takes a lot of focus but I generally can. The REAL problem is when something like "the proof is left as exercise" happens. Or the general exercise "prove that...". Then I just blank out and have not the faintest idea where to start.
How do I learn to do proofs? Is there a method which is somewhat more rigorous than "follow your mathematical heart"? I know there are some techniques, like induction and such, but often they just don't apply.
Enlighten me.
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You literally just write the definitions down and let the autistic connections in your brain do the work.
>>8436992
I'm guessing you're talking about epsilon delta proofs if you're in calc 1, and you don't really need to worry all that much about them, desu.
The material can be presented in a way that goes above your average calc 1 students ability, but all you need to do is memorize the the format. Work on replicating it over and over until you can do it by memory then try to focus on actually understanding it.
Any other proof presented in the book arent necessarily meant for you to understand (and indeed, a lot of the proofs of calc 1 material can't be understood with such a rudimentary knowledge of the subject), they're just showing you a basic idea of why you're doing it that way.