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Is this you, /sci/? 2016-09-25 06:38:14 Post No.8369277
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Is this you, /sci/?
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>there are people ON THIS BOARD who give their opinion about the interpretations of QM without even knowing how to calculate the fine structure of the hydrogen atom
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honestly bro, youtube teaches u a lot of quantum physics
fluctuations in mass, quantum suicide, schrodingers cat, like wow
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>>8369277
Haha good shit. I had a guy in my physics classes like this named Sean as well.
First day of Physics I the prof asks us what the difference between dimensions and units are. He's looking for something simple like "dimensions measure something physical and units are the numbers that can describe that measure".
Instead Sean sees this as his time to shine, not even 10 minutes into the first semester. His hand shoots up immediately and he starts spouting some popsci garbage he had heard from a youtube video.
>"The first dimension is a point"
>"The second dimension is a number line"
>"The third dimension is what we see"
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He got to the seventh fucking dimension before the prof stopped him.
Which social science major is the most useful? Which is the least? Which is the hardest major and which is the easiest?
And........According to you, which STEM major is the most useful and which is the least useful?
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>Most useful
Engineering
>Least
On the grand scale, physics
>Hardest
Probably physics
>Easiest
Biology
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>>8369186
Physics?! But then again I knew sci would be candid.
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>>8369178
>Which social science major is the most useful?
Philosophy combined with a STEM major is literal god tier. If you search up surveys, Philosophy combined with other majors in STEM or business, is highly valued.
>Which is the least?
Sociology
>Which is the hardest major
Depends on the department, but abstractly I'd say that a good Philo department would be hard if you don't have an intuitive grasp of the fringes of language.
>and which is the easiest?
Communications/gender/race studies
>According to you, which STEM major is the most useful
Nuclear/Aerospace engineering are in high demand and small supply.
>and which is the least useful?
Biology B.S. is uselss.
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Is Economics actual science?
They seem to have a term/acronym for everything, but it feels like they lack something important, like their whole foundation is based on subjective opinions.
I cant think of the right word to describe it, but it feels like when i read the textbook that it's just another person on the other end pontificating random ideas in a desperate attempt at legitimacy.
They have a nobel field though i guess.
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>Uncle is an accountant with a PhD and has run multiple successful businesses and got bored with making ass tonnes of money and became a professor
>Has both his CPA and CMA licenses
His viewpoint is 90% of universities will make Economics a social science where they teach little to dick about how economies actually run.
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>>8369175
>Accountant
>Knowing anything about economics
Pick one and only one.
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>>8369199
He actually knows something. He makes money anon.
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>he thinks he can reach human-level AI by the end of 2017
will he do it bros?
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What is the intellectual equivalent of surviving a fucking plane crash in the Andes mountain? _______ is top of the food chain stuff.
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When you get straight As in undergrad until you hit the junior year classes and burn out like a fucking plane into a fucking mountain.
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>>8369061
susskind level education
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Picking a Ph.D thesis in anything besides gender studies.
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How can a Circle have an infinite amount of points, that together and individually, hold no space, yet they create a finite enclosure?
If I created a mathematically perfect circle barrier in the real world, and dumped the smallest cosmic goo into it, would it escape?
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>If I created a mathematically perfect circle barrier in the real world
Nonsensical premise.
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The circle wasnt defined by the points, so their properties are irrelevant.
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>>8369051
Good question. What's even more surprising is that, according to the banach tarski paradox, a circle is actually mathematically equivalent to two circles
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Thoughts on racial segregation in academic institutes, good or bad?
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>>8369003
why not just base it on test scores or iq instead of something arbitrary like skin color?
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>>8369009
>why not just base it on test scores or iq
this would have pretty much the same effect.
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>>8369036
soooo, why color then?
you get what you want, and the once in a blue moon, black man gets what he wants
I was wondering if /sci/ has any interesting solutions to the Fermi paradox?
Here's some interesting ones I've thought of lately:
A) The process of abiogenesis is extremely rarer than assumed and life is so scarce in the universe that it will never contact other civilizations.
B) All civilizations eventually figure out that space travel is too impractical so they turn inwards and decide to live in simulated realities instead.
C) All civilizations reach a point where eventually they realize how futile existence is so they decide to collectively commit suicide.
D) They are already around us, but we don't have the capacity to perceive them much like an ant colony is completely oblivious to human civilization.
E) We are living in a simulated reality and whoever is running the simulation decided that it was only necessary to have life on this planet.
I'd love to hear more ideas around this.
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You didn't come up with A and the rest are pure cringe, especially C
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agreed
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>it simply takes longer than we thought to spread throughout the galaxy
>there is a point in a species history in which they are almost invariably wiped out due to self inflicted or external sources
>we are one of the first sentient species to emerge in our galaxy
>the galaxy is already under the control of an advanced civilization and we are simply a nature preserve
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Python networkx library help 2016-09-25 01:56:28 Post No.8368849
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Python networkx library help
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2016-09-25 01:56:28
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Does anyone now how to modify "def dag_longest_path(G)" in https://networkx.github.io/documentation/networkx-1.10/_modules/networkx/algorithms/dag.html#dag_longest_path
to make it relative from a certain vertex I choose? I've been trying to code trace it for quite some time but I can't really seem to understand it, there are some functionalities like G.pred[node] which always come up with an empty set which doesnt make any sense.
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post more akarin
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Longest path from a certain vertex to what?
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Does cell damage even exist? 2016-09-25 01:41:41 Post No.8368830
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Does cell damage even exist?
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2016-09-25 01:41:41
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In the lest three decades the tobacco industry has been telling us that their products can cause damage to people, but for years before that they were telling us that tobacco was completely harmless.
Does anybody know the truth?
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Cigarettes give you cancer.
That's the truth.
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I believe after a lot o research that tobacco itself is harmless to your health, but may cause addiction.
On the other hand, smoking stuff in general is bad for your lungs. Also, all the other chemicals in cigarettes today are very carcinogenic.
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Would eating cigarettes do less damage than smoking them?
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Is Humanities harder than STEM? 2016-09-25 00:53:46 Post No.8368782
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Is Humanities harder than STEM?
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i heard the argument since their is no "right" or "wrong" answer that Humanities requires more creativity and problem solving than STEM which has defined answers?
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Wrong board to ask.
But they're both respectable and useful for us
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>>8368789
this tbqhf
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>>8368789
First and last serious answer ITT
Can anyone defend the species concept as scientifically useful? Why do we (and I suppose, more commonly, creationists) continue to refer to evolution as giving rise to "new species" rather than what it really is, which is just a change in allele frequency in a population, tending to result in groups of organisms that are different enough (and what "different enough" means varies depending on your point of view) for us to refer to them separately? Do biologists continue to refer to speciation simply because it's the norm?
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language is like a virus
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>>8368705
fuck off kojimbo
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>>8368717
who?
Stem puns/menes
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Even a 95% cacao chocolate square wouldn't be markedly toxic, even to a small dog.
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fermat: mathematical troll? 2016-09-24 21:50:44 Post No.8368530
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fermat: mathematical troll?
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does the proof exist?
will it ever exist?
discuss fags, i think he was just a legendary troll
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>>8368530
There's a proof by andrew wiles I think
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>>8368537
anybody with a brain doesnt genuinely believe that hsi proof is complete. if it was successful proof then there would be no disagreement.
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>>8368530
[eqn]\sqrt[3]7^3+1^3=2^3[/eqn]
disproven
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For the engineers on this board, what was your senior engineering project?
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trying to make a database system for rare car collectors to help them appraise the value of rare cars. It was for a private contractor
It failed horribly.
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Automated meth cooker.
I'm civil.
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>>8368438
Buckling analysis of Euler-Bernoulli beams acting on elastic Winkler / Pasternak soils by FEM.
Done on Mathematica.
ez pz
Also Civil.