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>>8110215
calculate the sum of the squares of every number and then subtract the square of the mean from that as many times as you have numbers.

>>8110219
Thank you!

>>8110245
forgot to add: when you've done all that you need to then take the square root

I meant to say sodium carbonate, not potassium carbonate, sorry.

Great job man
You are now irradiated

sodium cyanide maybe? If you were gonna die you'd be dead already

>>8110163
Anything Michael Crichton
Don't listen to /lit/ about him BTW they're probably still storing jars of piss

>>8110163
Greg Egan if you want hard as fuck sci-fi.

>>8110163
C. J. Cherryh actually wrote nice ones.

>>8110094
This is widely known. Did you derp or do you actually think this somehow related to consciousness? I don't disagree that we are deterministic. Use a dictionary?

>>8110096

well this just proves beyond any doubt there is no physical thing that is a human conciousness.

our "conciousness" is just the program in our brain, it can be recreated on completely new atoms.

>>8110103
It just implies that consciousness isn't a set of atoms.

>>8110042
try studying if you're not naturally talented.

>>8110044
Thats not what I want anon, I want to be a fucking god amongst men, like be really really good, how you guys do that here?
I just want to prove a point desu, im not intrested in studying anything fancy

I have a year btw.

>>8110047
if you're not naturally talented, you won't be a god.
your efforts will compensate for a while though.

> Is it a meme?
Yes, largely. There is no job that calls for the title "Engineering Physicist". This mitigates the main fucking advantage of becoming an engineer.
Source:
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/home.htm

> Is it the most difficult engineering major?
Being exclusive shouldn't be mistaken for being difficult.

>>8109648
>There is no job that calls for the title "Engineering Physicist".
Plenty of jobs call for the skillset it provides though. Most employers look for an engineering degree related to what their project is about. They won't go oh we were specifically looking for a BME when an EE also has signal processing down. Any employer that autistic you don't want to work for anyway.

>>8109622
>>8109648

There's an Engineering Physics program in Oxford afaik, and the way it works is you learn general stuff the first couple of years, and then you specialise to whatever you want, mech, aero, EE, ChemE etc.

It is the only program they have for engineers, so it definitely isn't a meme, at least in Oxford.

>>8109559
time to find a new textbook

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>>8109565

pls anon; I already got attached. ;; I read the prefaces and I feel like I got a personal student-teacher connection with the author and when I read the text, I narrate his voice as though he were an actual lecturer so that I don't get lonely.

>>8109559
Oh god what book is this. {1,2,3} is totally a set.

OP, something else to keep in mind. In ZFC (which is probably secretly the axiom system your book is using), everything is a set. The lowercase/uppercase distinction is used as a convention to help one keep track of what objects are being manipulated, and what is containing those objects. This does not change the fact that everything is a set.

>>8109438
2.
Inbreeding is an issue only if you are not willing to kill the deformed and inferior.

And soon enough, 1, once the artificial womb is ready.

>>8109438
I read somewhere that to keep deformities to a acceptable rate, the lowest amount would be 20. I have no idea if that's 10/10 or some other ratio however.
Some kind of breeding system would also need to be constructed of course.

>>8109438
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2001-06/992282417.Ge.r.html

The author here mentions an island that was populated using a 20 person 10/10 model, I believe this is what I read.

Basically, it would depend mainly on the amount of healthy/bad recessive genes each person had, but a low number can be achieved.
And if you decide to just live with an incredible amount of deformations, possibly resulting in the creation of a subhuman mutant species, you could go 2 as >>8109441 suggests.

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Reminder that the lead-melting, acid-soaked hellhole named Venus is also an Earth-sized planet in a star's "habitable zone".

>>8109496
this is true

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>>8109403
>even fathom the technology to leave earth?
If you count solar-orbiting space habitats, we're probably pretty close to that right now.
The "how" isn't the hard part.
Political motivation to allocate funding, even in the private sector is the hurdle.

>How long until we as humans have to skidaddle earth?
>Will we even survive
Despite appearances, the future isn't that gloomy.
Human population growth is down to half what it was in the early 1960's, and is looking to continue declining.
Per-capita energy use (in Europe and the U.S. at least) is declining.
Improvements in technologies like desalination, bio-materials, reduced pollution from cars, power plants, etc, maybe even fusion power soon, are promising.
GMOs _can_ be useful in a very green-friendly way.
Nuclear proliferation is down.
Civilian casualties in war are greatly reduced compared the the last century.

It's more appropriate to say green is the color photosynthesis rejected.

Chlorophyll??

More like BORE-a-phyll.

>>8109415
jej, this

And before someone asks, I majored in it because I wanted a personal learning experience. I am pretty damn good at math, but fuck I kind of regret my decision a bit now because no jobs

>>8109385
If you're an applied math major, or specialize in some form of Operations Research, you'll be in like Flynn to get a good job at any large tech or logistics based company.

If you specialize in probability and stochastic systems, you can easily get a job with any quant trader or financial firm with a quant shop. They make good money as well.

If you can do any form of machine learning, you are also in a good position to get a solid job.

If you don't qualify in those areas, aren't good enough for academia and can't find some way to apply your skill set it may be difficult to find a solid job.

>>8109391
Not OP here, but need some advice all the same. I'm going to college in the fall and I'm really stuck in between majoring in Applied Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, or Finance.

I really want to get into Financial Engineering, but my school doesn't offer that major, and Actuarial Science is the closest degree to mixing Finance, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (mainly programming).

I just don't know if Actuarial Science is very marketable compared to a Math major and Finance minor.

>>8109336
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_bird

>>8109343
as I said, things I didn't think about.

>>8109336
I doubt that's the biggest single cell. What about a neuron in a whale?

>>8109302
Philosophy isn't really that different.

>>8109606
>>Philosophy isn't really that different.
at least philosophy does not pretend to hide some objectivity behind some contrived formal system.

>>8109302
Pretty sure no matter how we constructed the first microscope a cell would look and be able to be acted upon the same way as a cell did the first time someone saw one.

>>8109295

1) they don't.
2) okay, algebra. But algebra done right will still have some trig by way of examples.

>>8109295
You'll see them again in complex and differential equations.

Don't ever count on something that you don't like going away.

>>8109405
most majors don't have to take diffEQ. they'll come back like the ghost of your wife's husband in calc 2 though

>>8109254
>filename
kek'd

everything can't be predicted though

>still gorilla-posting

Legitimate philosophers define free will in such a way that it is compatible with a deterministic universe.