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>"i hate when normies say 'just a theory' because they really don't know what the word theory means and because i have a superior intellect i sit there growling with rage because they don't understand the TRUE depth of the meaning of the word theory like ugh"

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>>8286838
>lol, i love evolution, *reference to pokemon*
>uses "we all descended from apes" as an argument against racism
>i never used algebra after high school, I FUCKING HATE SCHOOL!!!

>>8286862
No, you don't understand. this isnt a thread for us to feel bad about ourselves and argue.
this is a thread to delude ourselves for fun.
stop taking things so seriously, weirdo. it's not a big deal.
just let us have fun. we're not actually mad.

Even the tiniest radiation can give you terminal cancer anon ;) You can die from a banana isotope tomorrow.

>>8277519
ya my dad got an ct scan of his chest and died of lung cancer :^)

>>8277521
Thus, proving that CT scans cause cancer.
All confirmed cancer patients are exposed to CT scan radiation ;-)

6÷2(1+2)=???

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>>8290545
-1/12

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>>8290527
Ok bruh
So you got a rectangle divided in smaller rectangles like in pic related for example.

Every smaller rectangle has at least two sides that have a length that is an integer.
Show that the big rectangle has to have at least two sides which lengths are integers too.

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putnam is for babies, do the hungarian version instead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_Schweitzer_Competition

I did a handful of regional competitions in college, mostly team math modeling-based and a couple of programming/hack events (wasn't too good at the latter but had fun). I doubt any were as intense as Olympiad can be though.

You should just ask someone in your math or physics department or your advisor. They will know more than anyone here.

>>8273066
Wow very interesting, thank you! Non-Hungarians are allowed to compete, correct?

>>8273072
Sounds pretty fun, I am starting university this fall, so I will for sure ask. How did you usually prepare for your regional competitions? Did you use special competition textbooks or no?

>>8294363
>There is no problem.
>You are travelling safely to your destination.

Trust me, I tell that to myself everyday. But in the end I find myself being the one holding the lever and the one tied to the tracks, at the same time. I call it Schrodinger's despair.

How's that for a trolley problem?

Trolley problems are only hard if you have no sense of morality.

>>8294371
Yes, I take the risk. Not my fault if one of the other dudes pull his lever.

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>>8268749
>implying employers aren't growingly being turned off by CS majors and won't even look at your application in the future

can you get a job as a software engineer with a computer science degree?

So let me get this straight:

Computer Science is a meme because it is pursued by dummies and indians?

It is purely the people enroled and not the content?

"One day Shizuo Kakutani was teaching a class at Yale. He wrote a lemma on the blackboard and announced that the proof was obvious. One student timidly raised his hand and said that it wasn't obvious to him. Could Kakutani explain?

After several moments' thought, Kakutani realized that he could not himself prove the lemma. He apologized and said that he would report back at their next class meeting.

After class, Kakutani, went straight to his office. He labored for quite a time and found that he could not prove the pesky lemma. He skipped lunch and went to the library to track down the lemma. After much work, he finally found the original paper. The lemma was stated clearly and succinctly. For the proof, the author had written, 'Exercise for the reader.'

The author of this 1941 paper was Kakutani."

"After John Nash won the Nobel Prize in Economics, a small ceremony was held in the Final Hall Common Room at Princeton University. Nash was prevailed upon to make a few remarks. His first was, 'I hope that getting the Nobel will improve my credit rating, because I really want a credit card.'"

Hardy goes to visit Ramanujan in the hospital and mentions the number of his taxi was 14. "I'm afraid that riding in a cab with such a dull number is an ill omen," Hardy says. And Ramanujan replies, "No, not at all; 14 is a very interesting number. It is the only one which can be written as the product of 7 and 2 in two different ways."

whats the deal with airline food?

>>8288655

No, but nice dubbs though.

I posit one question.
Is this guy a quantum physicist?
No? He is talking out of his ass.

i bet it was probably a short history lesson calculus...talked about Newton and Leibniz

not really impressed

>>8290131
No it was a pre calculus review, how to contact professor, her office hours, etc.

>>8290127
>tfw only a week until I start Calc 2

a-are the m-memes real guys?

Sure.

PhD in Mechanical Engineering here. Will answer your questions for people.

Some background information:
>Mathematics, BS
>Mathematics, MS
>Took control theory in last semester of MS, loved it; applied for PhD.
>Currently in PhD program with a focus on dynamical systems & mechatronics

Ask away.

>>8289131
How could you get an ME PhD without ever doing any industry work or mechanical engineering?

>>8289137
My reference letters, GRE scores and classes. During my second year in grad school, I took a ton of dynamical systems/control theory courses in the ME and EE departments, both theoretical and applied.

How old are you? Really?

Are you getting enough to eat?

Do you have any physical ailments?

Your body wants to eat, rest, and depending on your age--which I'm guessing is young--probably grow as well.

Your 'heart desires' are not your heart's at all but your brains. You have noise in your head that you take for reality. You're so good at listening to this noise that you are even considering suicide.

Do me a favor, kid.

Ignore your heart desires for a bit. Listen to to your bodily desires. Go on a retreat if you have to. Take mushrooms. Go lie in a sensory deprivation chamber.

Try to notice other people's desires.

When you get to the point where you're so good at noticing that, you'll probably have other people depending on you. Maybe even some people who want to die because their heart's desires aren't immediately being fulfilled.

Come back on here then, and tell me if you still have the balls to take the easy way out, and leave them behind in the dark.

^ What the fuck

>>8288547
iirc there are only so many loci but magnitudes more alleles available related to immunity. and what we call races aren't different enough for it to matter. most differences are within races and inbreeding is minimal so there is no reason to expect hybrid vigor to occur.

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>>8288483
Same thing happens to me
Everything seems to be connected

>>8288483
Psychedelics are a drug that give you delusions when your on them. You believe that they're more than just a delusion, because that's what a delusion is.

>>8287984
the fact that its a pointless waste of money and resources sending living bags of flesh and bones to an old dead world where there is nothing to do

>>8287988
this.
When we develop a cheap way to send things to LEO, mining will happen on it's own.
Spending a buzzilion dollars to send a dude to mars isn't worth it.

>>8287984
What do we get out of going to Mars? Now what are all the cons next to an inter-plantery war because Martians go full retard?

I just want scientists and researchers to find a way to stop aging, slow it down, or reverse it.

Another black hole.

black people

>>8280890
It depends on where you are and how you're moving. If you already fell into the black hole, there will be everything that fell inside.

>>8291632
>depressurizing a volcano safely
I doubt it can be done. It would be like trying to slowly burn a stick of dynamite. But even if you could do it, there are still problems.

Let's say that a normal eruption would release a gorilla-joule of energy over the course of a second. Perhaps you can slow the energy release so it happens over the course of a decade instead. However, you still have a gorilla-joule of energy released into the atmosphere, just much slower.

>volcano asplodes and causes a nuclear winter that lasts for an indeterminate amount of time
>volcano slow-burns and causes planet-wide warming over the course of a century
pick one

plus, drilling your heatsink apparatus might just cause the volcano to erupt prematurely

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all you can do is drain the lakes

>>8291647
Why not harness this gorilla-joule of volcanic pressure as a green energy a-la hydro power? We can use the magma/lava as heat and invent some kind of machine to harvest the immense pressure. We don't even need batteries to store the excess, just have like a spigot or something to allow more or less pressure and heat into the generator depending on our need.