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>>8079759
You shouldn't feel accomplished for getting into a university.

Feel accomplished when you have a fucking degree you underage millenial scumfuck.

Much, much easier to get into for undergrad.

Can be just as hard or harder to get into for grad school, depending on the school and the field.

They're good schools. You will get a good education.

Stop caring about prestige, because prestige basically goes "oh wow", "that's a good school", and "never heard of it" with the vast majority of people.

University of Virginia, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Michigan, and UC Berkeley are the only good schools that aren't an Ivy or Stanford/MIT/Caltech

here's a better question, would there be any formidable repercussions if we found a way to drive them to extinction?

>>8090872
The question doesn't make sense. Are you implying that animals exist to serve some purpose? Like your car?

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>>8090872
>Answer me this:
>Why do humans exist?
>>they are annoying
>>they are everywhere
>>they leave behind tons of trash
>>they carry diseases
>they serve no purpose other than to reproduce and die and annoy other forms of life
>why do they exist?

>>8089022
I mean the [math]2\theta = \frac{\theta}{|\theta|}[/'math] where's that from

>>8089024
Additional question: is there a firefox addon that lets me visualise the maths thing before submitting? I know about online renderers, but I'd rather use something more convenient that doesn't ask me to switch tabs

[math]2\theta = \frac{\theta}{|\theta|}[/math]

>>8089022
>How does the last step follow from the one before?

What's the definition of sign(x)? What are the values of x/|x|?

I've never met a nutrition major that wasn't some chakra poking brainlet.

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>>8087267
Wake me up daddy
> dude wweed lmao (pic related xdd)

>>8087267
>Do we really know so little of nutrition?
Yes
>Or does it differ greatly from person to person?
Yes

Nutritional science is hard. The miscibility of foods is poorly understood.
The field is also full of industry shills publishing data in shit tier journals that are favorable to their specific industry

The calorie counts of foods are all wrong and the gylcemic index is bullshit

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>set of all roots of polynomials of degree ≤ 24 with coefficients of -1 or 1
math.ucr.edu/home/baez/roots/

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>set of complex numbers with negative real part whose infinitely repeated factorial diverges
www.mathistopheles.co.uk/2015/05/14/fractal-factorials/

>>8088358

t. test tube washer

>>8088373
>2016
>not having an ultrasonic washer

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Hahahaha no. Analytical chemistry barely produces any good research. Oh wow we detected incredibly small amounts of heavy metals in fish, it's so small it's nothing to worry about, but we did it. Literally an Anal. Chem paper. Most Anal. Chem research is just done to keep the field alive and train grads, it's just like why people still analyze shakespeare's work even though they've done so for like 200 years.

You'll never make cool molecules like pic related.

>>8087389

>>son of MIT professor

cheating

>>8087389
>>currently age 35

and achieved absolutely nothing

/thread

He's a good lecturer. I recommend his intro algorithms course that's online. He co-teaches.

The guy who runs Tarsnap (cpercival) has the same CV, started Bachelors at age 13 http://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/sfnews/2001/June14/percival.html

Don Knuth has a similar CV, so does Daniel Bernstein

These people aren't super geniuses they are just motivated. If they were geniuses they'd have solved some of the math millennial problems or found new breakthroughs instead of just being professors (exception to Dan Bernstein, legit genius).

It's a money thing. Not a lot of money in recovering Everest corpses.

>>8090839
They serve as valuable reminders that climbing Mt. Everest is stupid.

>>8090871
>people who do things that i do not are stupid
can't you at least try to not be retarded

Hahaha.. /pol/.

Not even once.

>>8089139
good thing watson can find ways to afford fine art in his time of need, i was worried he'd let his position get to his head.

>>8089139
Hahahahaha! When will it end?

So it's many layers of this decission:
first we put ourselves in spheric baths (ph should be regulated, temperature should be regulated, air and water supply should be regulated:
we regulate ph by piss and pure water (if somehow there would be not enough of salt or other components - we should add those too) and constant control of salt in the water.
then we attempt to grow ourselves placentas (cloning ourself a clone instead of children and making the clone's placenta split on early stages would require machine to replace the missing flow. so it's better to print it as they print ears today. of our cells colony, just put stem-cells in the form of placenta & give them the field (or enzymes) that would make them specialize into placenta. then we have to sew the placenta in the umbilic tubes if they are still present inside our bellies (or we make them anew) and then we have a machine that oozes blood of propper quality, machines are to be behind all that to construct and control the blood flow to placenta and placenta also gives some blood back in the split between placenta and the "womb" - it all looks pretty much like matrix movie, which might end in 33 seconds when neo wakes up and sees his friends tripping in this studio. Then hollywood comes and change in music announces it. It's more like combination of matrix and surrogates, we're not out of this world if we don't want to. only this time we send machines to work instead of us. and most of the time we're not even gonna be there, we just tune into them if we have to give them a task or if they call us because they're having a problem. our autonomous houses would be multilevel shells protected from anything possible (or should I say known to man to that moment) so our biological immortality would be approaching the absolute one.

Or maybe those kids working with telomerase would succeed but they might need to remove ribs and skull to let the flesh grow the way it likes. And they would still need those bathes because mere statistics shows hell is round the corner, so even if we die at least don't let us rot, it might be painful.

>>8088398
>retard who never read a textbook/paper after highschool

>>8082771
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_theory

hidden reported saged trash scum.

>>8082771
Because [math]0[/math] has no inverse.
When you "divide" a number in a field such as the reals, what you're actually doing is multiplying by its inverse.
e.g. [math]\frac{1}{2}[/math] is actually [math]1 \cdot 2^{-1} [/math].
Recall from abstract algebra that the inverse of [math]x \in \mathbb{F} [/math] is an element [math]y \in \mathbb{F}[/math] such that [math]xy=yx=1_{\mathbb{F}}[/math], where [math]1_{\mathbb{F}}[/math] is the multiplicative identity.
There are however algebras where division by zero is meaningful like >>8082775 pointed out, but in the field of reals that we are used to, we cannot do so.

Ask him how GPS works, or why there are crescent moon phases.

>>8092102
I mentioned GPS to him. He said that he believes they are radio towers made to mimic satellites... I said GPS works in any location on the earth, even in the middle of the ocean with no towers visible... he essentially rejected that to be true and that I've never been out to see to confirm that.

>>8092116
have you? Can you blame him? If you're truly skeptical, you would only believe what you can see with your own eyes.

The earth is a 2D manifold locally. Therefore by integration, it's a flat surface. Wherever you go, the earth is flat just the same.

>>8086427
you didn't even fail properly, you could have gotten FAQ BD

What the fuck is a Q?

>>8086427
lol you're retarded

>>8088607
>over hyped
there it is champ

>>8088607
Overhyped. Completely possible, but not a significant enough of an improvement over current fission technology to care about when we are well on our way to fusion already.

>>8088615
>when we are well on our way to fusion already.
we are?

>>8086764
>By the way I'm a smoker
...why?

>all smokers
>never smoked

this implies that the "all smokers" group includes those who have had one cigarette in their lifetime. sounds like some heavy averaging.

>>8086764
He's saying there are people who actually lie or have bad intent when conducting studies or analyzing results.

He actually doesn't deny that smoking is bad for you (he says nothing about that, to be more precise), but he doesn't like the way it has been forced down everyone's throats.

>this implies that the "all smokers" group includes those who have had one cigarette in their lifetime. sounds like some heavy averaging.
your autism is showing.