Fell for the biology degree meme, need help transitioning into computer programming
where can I start learning python and java online that isnt retarded khan academy or youtube jargon?
>>8296691
if you have to come here and ask, then I fear me it is not KA that is retarded, but you
now go away and die
>>8296691
If you need to resort to asking an anime forum for help on how to start programming then there's a pretty good chance you're not going to learn.
How did you fall for the Biology meme?
>Oh you're a chemistry major? You must be so smart anon
>>8296673
said noone ever
>>8296673
Literally no one thinks this
Go cook some more meth, meth cook.
I've always liked the sound of biology so what are some things/subjects that I should know before venturing into it?
>>8296555
>>8296555
Well you should know basic math. Basic chemistry also helps though generally biology students learn chemistry concurrently with their biology studies.
Venture into chem or physics. Unless you're interested in learning about evolution or ecology there's not much to biology. Biochemistry and biological physics is more stimulating.
Science and Technology is more important than Art and Humanities.
Do you agree?
Why?
Discuss.
>>8296490
I disagree.
>>8296490
Important...for who?
Also, if we talk about peoples 'life happiness', no, humanities is everything
>>8296490
Since you're asking in /sci im pretty sure you already know what the answer is going to be
>can't graduate from engineering without finding an internship first
>no one even wants to let me work for free
>>8296448
>1900+116
>Not studying CS
>>8296448
>no one even wants to let me work for free
Free? What kind of shitty country are you in?
>>8296448
You're doing something wrong brah.
What are you doing wrong?
What are your thoughts on antidepressants, in particular SSRIs and SARIs?
Little is known about the mechanisms behind depression and antidepressants. One theory I have heard is that depression is the result of lacking synaptogenesis and neurogenesis, for example due to stress or dissatisfaction but also obviously genetic and that SSRIs promote both.
However, there is also endless controversity surrounding antidepressants, some even claiming that they permanently damage your brain.
Any medfags here who know more about this?
>>8296297
>SSRIs
It's like trying to brush away rust with a toothbrush. You can brush away the superficial flakes but it doesn't solve the core problem.
All discovered compounds that would be truly powerful antidepressants are illegal because they directly induce positive and happy mindstates, some idiot in charge decided that clearly we can't have that.
SSRIs have a slightly sedative effect, they decrease your motivation. This will reduce the agitation of depression which can be interpreted as "antidepressant effect" but it is a completely fucking stupid approach because depressed people are in extreme need of becoming activated and motivated.
Yes I've tried SSRIs, yes I'm a medfag, and the more I read about them the more angry I become. We give fucking garbage compounds as treatment for depression, while at the same time the very well documented fucking substances that are not patent protected that could revolutionize psychiatry, especially in anxiety and depression, are sitting on a fucking list of banned substances.
It's a fucking crime against humanity.
I have schizophrenia so I've gone through a lot of meds. Right now I'm taking lithium carbonate and haloperidol. The halos give you five minutes of euphoria if you chew them, which is great. I'm highly stressed all day trying to philosophize my way out of a wet paper bag, and it has physical effects like my jaw hurts I can barely eat, the immidiate mind change from halos is like cutting yourself to release endorphins it gives you a break from the built up stress and the relief lasts half an hour or more before the stress starts building back up. I've been looking at the chemical diagrams of various meds and I'm thinking about trying the anti depressant zyprexia. I can magnetize two objects I hold in my hands like with my soul and it feels like they are part of my body. So I'm looking for something that will affect my melanin, melanin doesn't just act as a pigment but its part of your immune system, and your adrenial glands, and it is burnt in your eyes to help form the image, I think it could help me with my hallucinations. I can feel my spirit inside and outside my body so I'm thinking if I attatch some circles to my melanin's I can filter my spirit through them. Like when I take 3 hits of meth my spirit that normally rests in my hand spreads out to my whole body. Usually I have to lay down and concentrate on spreading it to achieve the same effect. So I think I'm on to something maybe I could get a perscription for desoxyn or something. I'm buying a samurai sword in a few days and am going to channel my soul into it eight hours a day until I sprout wings and a halo lol.
>>8296507
Cannabidiol completely controls my psychosis, and thc completely controls my depression and mania. But it all must be bad because the DEA says so, right? We can't have people getting stoned.
endnote is a piece of fucking shit, waste of space, worst software i have used to date
how do you feel about that /sci/
am i a pretentious prick?
good luck typing all your 3 digit references. if you don't have that much then your work is trivial and you're a fucking pleb
>>8296250
What exactly is your problem with it? I've used everything pretty much, menderly, zotero, jabref, read cube, docear, and endnote ofc. Jabref is my favourite but had to switch to endnote for word (university wants thesis written in word)
Mendeley + bibtex ftw
>how does a wing work?
>Bernoulli bro!
>how does bike stay upright?
>angular momentum bro!
What are some other overly simplified explanations that get parroted a lot?
>>8296103
>"It's an imbalance of chemicals in your brain"
>"carbon dioxide and muh greenhouse"
>"it's not ionizing lol xd brah look at the magnetron com' on chicken"
>>8296113
>"it's not ionizing lol xd brah look at the magnetron com' on chicken"
What's this referring to?
>>8296142
reddit-tier understanding of the thermal and non-thermal effects of non-ionizing radiation on the human body
Does it actually exist?
We often hear things like
>This study was funded by big pharma/the government/big oil/the green lobby so the results can't be trusted
but how true can this be? Surely if the logic in the paper follows then it doesn't matter who funded it - whether or not the results happen to be what the funding agency wanted is irrelevant. Where can the bias come from?
you can use statistical analysis of your results to get whatever result you want, take a look at data dredging
>>8295979
It honestly doesn't matter because the data
>>8295988
always shows through anyways
it just makes it INSUFFERABLE to go through
Imagine reading paper after paper and saying it's shit only to have some idiot play wordsmith and spin it another angle
It's basically where politics come in, and that's why bias is very important to take into consideration. The data is there, but you have to see through the lies and read between the lines
>>8296013
>it just makes it INSUFFERABLE to go through
This, for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_329
Are there any diseases that we have absolutely no idea about how we might try to cure them?
We now seem to have ideas (which may or may not actually work - but at least we have ideas and we can test them) for curing everything.
Is there anything which this doesn't apply to?
>>8295926
Alzheimer's
>>8295927
But there's a fair amount of work going on relating to Alzheimer's; particularly relating to amyloid beta.
It might not work, but we do have *an idea*.
I mean things where we don't even have a good idea of where to start.
>>8295954
no. we arent fucking cavemen.
TEST
[tex]asdf[/tex]
[latex]\frac{1}{2}[\latex]
>>8295866
[math]\Latex[/math]
[math]\frac{1}{2}[/math]
>mfw trying to write a proof
Is there an at least somewhat systematic way a beginner can practice and get good at writing proofs? Or should I just accept that I'm a hopeless brainlet...
>>8295812
Take very simple proofs and write as many as you can. For example, prove to me that multiplying and odd and even number will always be even.
>>8295812
Get a book like A transition to advanced mathematics or How to prove it and go from there. Look at proofs and copy how they do them.
>>8295819
Let n be an even number and let m be an odd number.
[eqn]n\times m = \text{Proof is trivial.}[/eqn]
So I've been watching Star Trek: Voyager (No, I don't know why), and while there's a lot of dumb things in this show, there's one thing I've come across in season 5 (I don't know why I've made it that far either) that's really bugging me.
So to not bog down in details, a member of the main cast gets afflicted with Space Medical Problems. The medical staff on voyager don't know how to deal with these particular problems, and they don't have time to read about it, so they decide on the only logical course of action: to create the hologram of the known galaxy's leading expert in Xenowhatever. They do that, and the chief doctor proceeds to work with him on the issue, and get friendly with him even.
Then, as they are on the verge of having the solution to the problem, a problem arises - it turns out that the expert that the hologram is based on was a real bad dude and experimented on living people. His science worked and ultimately his cures saved the lives of countless thousands, but he did torturous experiments on the living which is absolutely not okay. So, almost everyone on the ship (including the person afflicted with the space problems) is immediately completely against this guy, and insists that his hologram and his work be deleted. Furthermore, they completely refuse the idea of using his methods, as doing it would "validate the methods he used to achieve them." The character would rather die than take this treatment.
So my question is: am I a moral pygmy, or is that just incredibly stupid? Morality is the point here, and while OF COURSE experimenting on living people is a terrible thing and should not be unpunished, surely burning actual good technology and research that came from it is ridiculously wasteful. If you were dying from some horrible rotting disease, and you find out that there is a cure, but it was discovered by a nazi scientist who got it by murduring babies, would you refuse it?
>>8295674
yeah no thats bullshit
the nazis figured out the relationship between smoking and cancer, among many other medical advances.
we dont ignore those discoveries
>>8295674
Not using the data means you are actively making it so those people suffered and died for literally nothing. Why would you do that
>>8295674
Ethics slow down progress, but without ethics we can easily lose what makes us human.
That's the gist of it.
If entropy always increases then why arent we still a soup of quarks
>>8295301
Fun fact: we might live in a universe with continuously decreasing entropy
>>8295301
Because the universe cooled off too fast.
>>8295301
Because the universe is getting bigguh faster than it makes entropy nigguh
how come someone that has a PHD in economics and an ivy league education becomes marxists?
what do you think"" educational institutions"" are for? leftist indoctrination
>>8295315
this guy would claim otherwise
he's either a heeb or has too much empathy
>>8295298
Because in a vacuum, communism is the best economic model
That and all universities were founded by leftist Marxists from Western Europe.