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>Engineer
>Physicist
>Biologist
Healthy interest in nature.
>Mathematician
Autistic obsession with imaginary abstract objects.
I swear if there was a major called "Sonic Adventure", math would suddenly lose three quarters of its students to it. You're all just manchildren wanting to play forever in your own made up world.
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>Physicist
>>>/x/
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THAR BE HOOKS
all is equally irrelevant
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>>8310557
???
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How likely is it that it will be possible in the next 100 years that a method will be developed to transfer a human consciousness from one brain into another (either biological or non-biological)?
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54%
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>>8310532
>Margin of error: ~72%
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Why are most people not interested in science?
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They're taught that it's a difficult thing for smart people.
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>>8310519
How did the smartness meme start?
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A huge part in it is the media wanting to portray science as something bad to keep people uneducated and easy to herd like cattle. Who wants to understand the world around you when it will lead you to related to unlikable nerds from movies who get bullied, have no friends and then grow up to be psychopaths? People would sooner trust a politician's word of mouth than a scientist's which should tell you a lot.
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brainlets
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Humans btfo
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Will humans EVER learn?
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>>8310436
those whales probably have complex thoughts but no way to communicate them or appendages to create things
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What makes a number real?
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no factor of sqrt(-1)
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>>8310206
I stopped caring about math when I was introduced to the concept of real numbers.
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>>8310206
If there is a Cauchy sequence of rationals that converges to it.
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Where can I meet people who aren't complete retards that doesn't try to scam me out of money to do so? I'm so fucking tired of being surrounded by fucking stupid people every single day. I can't deal with it anymore.
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>>8310108
quite simple really just talk to people below 60 that don't use a smartphone.
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>>8310120
Where do I find these mystical creatures?
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Is Economics a science?
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>>8310040
No one who makes more than $30k is a real scientist.
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>>8310040
To some people
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Science is linear. Economics is cyclic.
fly flew into my nose
what are chances that my body will handle it on its own or do I have to visit laryngologist
I think its kill but still somewhere deep in my nostril.
I am not able to blow it out or to swallow.
I can feel snort running down the throat from this nostril.
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Ew
You wanna know how I know you're lying?
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>>8309964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDtnalPdOc
Thanks for visting 4chan. Come again.
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>>8309967
yeah, tell me
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is it time to give up on women in STEM?
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>>8309751
>Their spatial awareness is demonstrably worse than that of men, so they're a shit at pattern recognition.
>Unfortunately for those who got two X chromemesomes, most of the important things we do (as well as the more mundane ones, like playing a game of chess) rely heavily on mankind's dope af pattern recognition skills. So women a shit.
Discuss
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...or we could get rid of the useless cultural studies degrees and stop making psychology such a "coveted" meme subject
post-secondary schools try to market degrees to specific demographics and it takes a lot of de-programming to undo marketing voodoo of any kind.
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>>8309751
I wouldn't say so, the US and Western Europe isn't the whole world desu, in other parts of the world women are a lot more present in STEM programs. There's something about American culture (and its projection in Western Europe by extension) that turns the majority of their women into degenerate sluts incapable of critical thinking, but I can't pinpoint what that is. Extensive use of social media? Lack of history and culture? Traditional roles and memes? Curious.
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University student graduating soon and (hopefully) headed to academia.
What areas of Computer Science deal extensively with low-level system design? For example, I've done a bit of assembler/interpreter building and really enjoyed kinda "brute forcing" through C to get everything working smoothly.
I ask specifically about Computer Science and not Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering because my poorfag state university doesn't offer those programs
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None, really. This is almost entirely a topic of computer engineering, not computer science.
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>>8309708
>low-level
>C
pick one
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Unsure how to apply integration by parts for this integral. Help me out?
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>>>/hm/ for homework
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Why are you thinking you should do integration by parts?
Also, don't do integration by parts here.
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Reason why I believe I should be doing integration by parts is because the entire assignment was integration by parts. I will be using /hm/
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Now, I don't know the first when it comes to advanced science, but I love science and love learning about it (even if i dont fully understand it).
I was thinking in the shower yesterday, isn't travelling at lightspeed impractical. Even if we found a way to achieve such speeds, the time dilation which occurs when travelling at half light speed would make travelling to a planet lets say 8 lightyears away pretty pointless, i mean maybe not in the grand scheme of things. But I imagine travelling 16 lightyears (there and back) at half light speed would take around 65 years? Im likely wrong.
But lets say it is 65 years, how would you find someone able to survive in space for 65 years. How much food would be needed, surely that would weigh the ship down, how would you fuel the weight, how would you fuel the ship to achieve the speed.
I got a headache shortly after, then I remembered Interstellar (i imagine somebody is mad by this point) when they travel to the wormhole which i guess acts like a shortcut through space.
Then I thought I guess that's the only way we can travel long distances without the time dilation.
I was wondering if anyone would like to confirm my scattered thoughts, discuss them or tell me i'm stupid. Welcome to anything.
Thanks.
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>>8309563
tl;dr: is lightspeed impractical, is wormholes the only way to travel long distances, what even is a wormhole, i got this idea from Interstellar
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>>8309563
Have you ever heard of gravity waves? The Universe is expanding by having its mass "surf" on them. And theyre a lot faster than light speed.
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>>8309585
sure, i think.
they're not a mode of travelling are they, its a way of seeing the universe/planets etc without being there? or have i got the wrong thing
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Did anyone else out there never have to put in effort in to succeed in school?
I never studied for a single test and have acquired two degrees thus far (First was engineering, second was Physics) and have always finished in the upper 10 percentile. I don't even consider myself to be particularly intelligent.
Just kind of seems arbitrary and unfair how some people need to study and others don't. Is there a reason for this phenomenon?
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You are simply superior to others. Crème de la crème.
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>>8309557
While I don't think that is the case, you're a real bro for saying so.
Good taste in asians, too
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>>8309549
>Did anyone else out there never have to put in effort in to succeed in school?
Yes, then physical chemistry happened.
This is a question concerning linguistics (I guess), so if you are one of those people who
>not real science,
please move on.
Now I've noticed a certain quirkiness of language that I've thought to be specific only to my own native language (Serbian) but I've just realized that it's something prevalent in English too.
>I ate an apple.
Now in this sentence, people would say that the word "an" is FOLLOWED by "apple" or that "apple" FOLLOWS "an". In my head, I can't realize how is that true because for "an" to follow "apple" would require that the part of the sentence be "apple an".
This is the same in Serbian, we would say that "an" is in front of "apple".
But consider the following. Sentences in European languages are read from left to right, as illustrated by the poorly-drawn image I made in paint just now. If you imagine yourself standing on point A of the axis, and you are heading in the "normal reading direction", towards point B, wouldn't anything that you have yet to encounter be IN FRONT OF YOU ? English and Serbian speakers read left to right, but yet they use terms for the imagined spacial distribution of elements in a sentence, as if they read right to left and I was wondering why is that.
Or am I just overthinking this ?
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If you say "an apple" (aloud or in your mind), the following happens:
1. You first say "an".
2. You then say "apple".
So the state 2 follows the state 1. Therefore "apple" follows "an".
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Define energy
Define an event
Define a thing
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>>8309539
Define read
Define a
Define dictionary
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>7th grade philosopher over here
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>>8309542
>let's define a word using other words