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Is biology meme field?
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>>8420270
The science of the life. The most complicated science.
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As someone getting a masters in an ecology program, id say the science is there. It seems biology answers questions by looking for exceptions to a rule and explaining them (maybe all science does this) but you cant just throw bullshit out there. You have to test it and prove it with some amount of certainty (a lot of replication and good stats to back up statements) of you want to publish. If you are a modeler trying to explain every input in a system the math is rigorous, other wise i only see basic calculus and algebra being applied to describe curves. id also prefer the term "naturalist" over "biologist" to differentiate from cell bio people. I wouldnt even mind not being called a scientist but the research in the field is important whatever you call it. I dont know why, maybe intelligence or limits by instrumentation, but i know it isnt going to lead to some unifying theory of life. But it is important to make policy around wildlife and agriculture based on data and research
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>>8420289
>unifying theory of life
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What do you anons think about the species concept?
From a birth we are taught that everything is a separate kind of organism, which can be catagorised into a unique species. This whole concept underpins so many facets of science, but is not real. Its just a construct by humans so we can catagorise and understand life around us better, but from my understanding there really is no such thing as a species.
Can anyone prove me wrong?
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>>8420203
>Its just a construct by humans so we can catagorise and understand life around us better, but from my understanding there really is no such thing as a species.
Well yeah but it's not like they group things together arbitrarily.
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>>8420203
Speciation has a pretty rigid definition desu senpai
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>>8420208
What is a definition of species that applies across all taxon?
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>implying being a software engineer isn't the elite choice
enjoy never amounting to nothing because you need to suck dick of your goverment official to give you a grant.
enjoy having no jobs prospects.
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>>8420187
Dumb frogposter
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>>8420187
engineers are better in every respect
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>>8420195
Not in research for superconductors.
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Is there anyone on /sci/ who isn't a student?
I've only recently started checking this board regularly, but it seems like every single poster here is in school. Aren't there any posters who just post here because they're interested in science and math?
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>>8420147
No. /sci/ is getting deleted soon anyway so who gives a fuck.
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Donate or die.
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>>8420147
Nope. This board used to be for neets and wagecucks who liked to do math in their spare time. The reddit invasion brought with it tons of autistic undergrads.
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In this picture, you can assume the relationship between the two columns is 2 * x = Y just by looking at it.
How would you find the relationship between two columns with several million numbers and no obvious sequence or pattern?
I've done some searching and the closest thing I can find is the formula for linear regression.
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>>8420143
Wow, you answered your own question.
Great thread OP. I'm sad it's over.
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if the numbers in one column do not repeat you find a polynomial of degree n where n is the size of the columns, that maps the first one to the other.
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if you're a pleb tier programmer like me looking for a quick way to map x to y try this place:
https://mycurvefit.com/
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Existence of gay people 2016-10-18 11:34:17 Post No.8420012
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How can there even be gay people from an evolutionary standpoint? Gay people have no way to pass on their genes since two guys can't make a baby. So how in the hell does it exist at all? I'm pretty sure this proves that you can't be born gay. Those that call themselves "gay" just have a fetish for males, same as one guy might have fetish for asians or blondes etc.
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>implying homosexuality is genetic and not choice
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>>8420025
I just looked through the thread and found nothing proving that.
>find the probability of getting a head
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50/50, either it happens or it doesn't
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>>8420017
theres also a chance the coin lands on its side
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>>8420114
only on a set of measure zero
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What is the /sci/ approved way to developing a good work ethic
How do we end the "smart but lazy" meme once and for all
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>work ethic
Do not waste your time creating such a thing, it pans out as a concept designed to distract and disorganize workers /age slaves.
I don't have a work ethic. I operate on universal underlying personal ethics. I probably appear to employers to have excellent work ethic, but it's strictly an indirect consequence of the above. An illusion in that sense. If I ever compromise my ethics, I either have a good reason, or will very soon be living with the knowledge I was too weak, stupid, or cowardly to do things how I truly thought was right.
The best work ethic is one that can prove its own irrelevance.
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>>8419843
t. ignatius reilly
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>>8419847
You'll be okay.
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So me an a friend have been debating on a small problem. Say you have 4 dice, you role them and drop the smallest number. Will the medium be the same or different (on average) if you rolled 3 dice and rerolled the smallest?
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Are you asking the "median" of the dice being identical to the median of the previous roll?
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>>8419515
different, removing the smallest number will create a higher average than re-rolling a die
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>>8419519
Close enough to make a difference. Like of done enough times, will the 4 dice method give me better ( or worse, or the same) numbers than reroling the lowest
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Is biological ageing a solvable problem? 2016-10-18 04:53:22 Post No.8419507
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Is biological ageing a solvable problem?
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How possible do you believe it is that, with sustained effort, we could eliminate the suffering and ill-health associated with biological ageing by developing deliberate medical interventions to reverse the damage accumulated by the body over time as a natural consequence of metabolism?
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>>8419507
It is possible. Several people are already working on it it's called negligible senescence.
You probably won't see something pop until the 2020s-2030s
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>>8419530
How can I make it happen sooner?
Even by a month?
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>>8419530
>he fell for grey beard's meme
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Nuclear Engineering and Foreign Languages 2016-10-18 04:46:54 Post No.8419500
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Nuclear Engineering and Foreign Languages
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Hey /sci/
If I wanted to learn a language for the sake of prospects in nuclear engineering (particularly reactor design that's all wrapped up in tape right now in the USA thanks to the NRC) careers, which should I learn? I've had friends recommend Russian and French. Are there any others I should consider?
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SENPAI desu that's it, you could argue German as well if you're not a brainlet. Mandarin may or may not be useful, people haven't figured out what chinas endgame is yet
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>>8421181
>German
Aren't they shutting down all of their power plants right now so they can buy nuclear power from France?
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>>8419500
Fission or fusion?
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Do you guys actually learn during class/lectures?
I sit there like a cuck and can't learn a damn thing. Taking statics, physics, calc 3 and some other shit and I don't learn anything, while my classmates seem to get it.
I have to go to the library or learn the material myself to get it, class is a waste of time.
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>>8419474
I've had good teachers and bad, my favorite so far is one who expected you to read the section before class and who worked like hell to be a suplimentary source for the book. We actually held discussion rather than lecture.
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Read the lectures material beforehand, turd. The kids who just "get it" are doing just that.
One can't hope to make meaningful observations and statements the first time they see something
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Okay, looks like the way to go is to read ahead. Thanks boys.
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How do I test this hypothesis? 2016-10-18 04:01:54 Post No.8419427
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How do I test this hypothesis?
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>Observation:
>It seems more likely for a hot woman to be dating an ugly dude than for a hot dude to date an ugly woman.
>Gay male couples seem to both be super fit and generally good looking.
>Gay female couples are less good-looking, or at least less likely to be good-look, and much less likely for both to be good looking.
>Hypothesis
>Males (both gay or straight) tend to be more superficial and consider looks as a much larger percentage (probably over 50%) of the factors needed from a partner.
>Women (gay or straight) tend to be less superficial and consider other attributes as more important than looks when considering what is needed in a partner.
How do I test this?
>Can I design some sort of experiment?
>Maybe I can check if this is also the case in other species? How?
>How can I be quantitative about this?
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Any study that takes subjective analysis is not very valid
Hypothesis need to be validated by a definitive metric, your professors will laugh at you when you introduce your taste in women as the metric for beauty
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Also, I did a study on who gave the best blowjobs, black people, Asian people, white people, and your mom.
In a double blind randomized trial, 5 men in their 20s that were heterosexual chose your mom as the best fellatio
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>Not very valid
Wew lad, take a look at a social science journal sometime. Just because it's not valid doesn't mean it can't be published.
Anyway OP, in principle this shouldn't be that hard. You'd need to get a fairly large and "random" sample of couples and each subject agree to undergo a "hotness" test. For example, you could have each participant rate the attractiveness of some or all of the other participants of the opposite gender (in private and anonymously, of course) and then take the average.
Then figure out what you mean by "ugly" and "attractive" (maybe ugly is less than average-1.5*StdDev and attractiveness more than average+1.5*StdDev) and see how many of each couple there are in your sample.
You'll also need to figure out how to get a p-value less than .05, which means you'll need to come up with a competing Null Hypothesis under which the result is unlikely. A reasonable null hypothesis might be something like Correlation(male attractiveness, female attractiveness)>r where r is a parameter of your choosing. If r=1 so that attractiveness is perfectly correlated in each couple, then assuming that any couple at has a discrepancy in attractiveness, this will yield a p-value of 0. Experiment with your data and see if you can choose a "plausible" value for r (say r=.5) while still keeping the p-value below .05. If you can't do this, then keep collecting more data and stop as soon as the p-value gets sufficiently small.
Good Luck!
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if natural selection (obviously) exists 2016-10-18 03:30:02 Post No.8419370
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if natural selection (obviously) exists
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why are there so many men with small dicks?
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Women were spoils of war who were raped by the strongest man. Dick size was inconsequential.
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That is because perennial pubertarianism is not selected for.
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Wow dude what an uninspired question why don't you check out SQT?
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If you can't solve this problem, then you are a brainlet who needs to get off this board.
Consider a function [math] F:\mathbb{C}^2\to\mathbb{C}^2 [/math] of the form F(x,y)=(p(x,y), q(x,y)) where the components p and q are polynomials.
Suppose the Jacobian determinant [math] p_xq_y-p_yq_x [/math] is a non-zero complex number.
Show that the components of G^{-1} are polynomials.
If you've taken any real analysis course this should not be difficult.
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>>8419375
Whoops. Meant to write
>Show that the components of F^{-1} are polynomials
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>Linear algebra, complex analysis
>"If you've taken any real analysis course this should not be difficult."
I don't even know why I'm responding to this. OP is a faggot. Do your own damn homework OP.