What drove you to study STEM and how do you feel about your progress so far?
I had to stop because I couldn't afford it. I draw now. No Chem Engineering for me.
I'm interested in biology. I have been interesting in life ever since I was a small child. I would spend days turning over rocks and studying the bugs underneath. I went through a dinosaur phase which made me interested in evolution, which led to an interest in genetics, my current field of study.
My parents also had a role. They would encourage me to practice math since I was small, and they discouraged me from going into the humanities, which was another interest of mine. I still study history as a hobby but I am glad I went STEM because the way I see it, it is easier to study history as a hobby while having a science job than it is to study science as a hobby while having a history job (since they are rare.)
>>8243876
I want to know EVERYTHING.
How does one achieve a purpose driven life, when everything seems so trivial?
fake it till you make it
unfortunately there's nothing to live for in the western world anymore
>>8241384
>fake it till you make it
What if there is no notion of making it?
>>8241394
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus
A large (n=15,000) Romanian study has found no difference in intelligence by gender, and no difference in variance either.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289616301003
Discuss.
How do they measure intelligence ?
>>8243514
Simple. They simply asked the participants whether they would vote for Trump.
>>8243514
They standardized scores from 6 different intelligence tests:
-the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition
-, Raven's Progressive Matrices, Plus
-the Multidimensional Aptitude Battery, Second Edition
-the General Ability Measure for Adults
-the Intelligence Structure Test 2000, Revised
The gigafactory grand opening video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Szj2qIYX8
Elon Musk proposes that focusing on the manufacturing process is now the key for electric vehicles.
Says engineering time spent on manufacturing processes is 5-10x more efficient than trying to eek out additional performance on the Tesla 3.
The gigafactory utilizes autonomous robots.
http://electrek.co/2016/07/31/tesla-gigafactory-robots-machines-battery-factory/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0P1Ikyz8To
Video showing off fully autonomous Adept Lynx Tesla robot.
Elon musk's humor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Snd8Rk07hEU
Are there any debatable evidence of any kind of psychic ability.
Such as clairvoyance, telepathy, telekinesis, remote viewing.. etc..
>>8231234
I occasionally have dreams of future "scenes" I will witness.
>>8231234
nothing comfirmed, just a load of wackos talking shit who cant stand up to proper scrutiny or any decent James Randi style grilling.
>>8231237
nope
deja vu (or deja reve, whichever) is just the brain fucking up and not properly timestamping a memory
you think you've seen/dreamed it before. you havent. it's fresh, and your brain is just fucking you.
Seriously guys, give me a viable fucking solution to overpopulation.
>>8242424
stop assistentialism. seriously, you can't keep giving so much aid to useless people in the form of free money, they're just going to breed into more useless people. aid needs to be geared towards preparing people to be useful.
>>8242424
War
Running out of resources
Diseases
Collapse of infrastructure
>>8242424
Mass sterilization of a generation. Skip about 10 or so years of population growth
Ask your questions about math up to college level.
Anyone can join in.
don't post homework.
literally nobody is self studying?
>>8240963
problem:
666 green kids decided to post in this thread between 5 pm inclusive and 6 pm exclusive. All green kids will post at least once. Time of the first post for all green kids is equally distributed between 5 pm inclusive and 6 pm exclusive. When a kid post in a thread, he stays for 15 min to write one replay for everyone who had posted in this thread since his first post. At 6 pm all green kids left the thread. What is probability of all 666 green kids getting 665 replies by green kids?
Happy?
>>8241009
what are you having trouble calculating?
So guys, I wanna learn programming. What language should I start with? I was thinking Python because of the shit I researched. Can you recommend me some books that are actually good for learning it?
>>8237803
bump
>>8237803
why don't you try to make a calculator?
>>8237803
Python is a good place to start. Most beginner books will be similar. The best way to get good at coding is to code everyday, think of a simple program that you would need and try to make it.
Post you favourite /sci/ books, help out your fellow anons finding the best books for their field
>>8219953
Why is it in sale in those shitty countries only?
>>8219953
inb4 >cs
what is /sci/'s favourite mech eng book? pls no meming
What will be the next biggest scientific advancement?
>under 50 years
creation of sentient AI
>>8240231
gravity wave detector in orbit using capacitive sensing
>>8240231
propulsion system without propellant
Ask all your stupid questions here that do not deserve their own thread.
What is coordination number of copper in [Cu(gly)2(H2O)] supposed to be? I get 5 but supposedly it should be 6.
Gly is bidentate so 2x2 = 4 + 1 from monodentate H2O = 5
What am I missing?
Does
[math]\frac{x^{2}-1}{x-1}[/math]
equal
[math]x+1[/math] ?
>>8230663
Unless x equals 1, yes. If x equals 1, the first expression is undefined.
Are humans the worst species on Earth?
>>8238798
imagine when the aliens receive and begin to theorize what that lump between his extremities could do
That picture is Not Safe For Work, OP. Here, I fixed it for you.
>>8239256
i can still see her tits n vagina
In your opinion, what life factors cause or contribute to depression?
>>8240093
brainletism
>>8240097
ay ay fuck u mate
>>8240093
I'd be depressed if a fucking tiny rain cloud followed me everywhere I went.
Actually wait, no I wouldn't. That would be fucking awesome! Where do I sign up?
Why should scientists be paid? I just finished watching Carl Sagans cosmos so I think I have a really good understanding of your field but it still doesn't make any sense to me... why is the government giving billions of dollars to people who just wear lab coats, smoke pot, and look at really bright lights thinking that the "lasers" are revolutionary technology (if they're even doing good science- if they're not, then they're just staring at the fucking sky while they're tripping and thinking about how the amount of light from each star can affect its composition like it even fucking matters to us)
Tell me sci, I don't want to hate all of you guys but it seems to me that you're a huge waste of the countries resources.
VERY good post.
Sage in all fields
>>8241845
I got a better idea.
Middle School and High School students often wonder why they are required to take math and science courses.
Is there a good reason? What would you say to such students?
>>8240450
>>8240455
I kek'd
>>8240455
Went way over my head...