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Hello /sci/, HS Senior here, and I shamefully admit that I am completing my HS career with Pre-Calculus. I have been at least one or two math classes behind my peers for as long as I can remember, but I'm always the best in my math classes. I grasp concepts easily and always have the mathematical intuition that is required to excel in my courses, but alas, I am...behind. My question to you is: Will I survive a Physics/Electrical Engineering double major? They are my passion, and I enjoy studying the concepts that I have the mathematical tools to ascertain and learn. I have no difficulty with the math I have facing me now, but will my "setback" hinder me in my further endeavors? Thank you.
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>>8050945
As long as you place into calculus, you should be fine
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I suppose you will be fine, as long as you are confident in your ability to learn the abstract concepts involved. Have you taken AP Physics or AP Chemistry at all. I would see how you how you like something that requires a little more rigor before you decide majoring into 2 difficult subjects.
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I apologize for my atrocious english, I am German
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Are they really that necessary?
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>>8050924
Not really, and they make your boobs sag
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>>8050924
nope ;^)
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>>8050924
Science say no
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Why does /sci/ think that psychology is bullshit?
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Because the axiom of choice disproves free will
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>>8050670
Because it is
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>>8050670
>bullshit
Such strong language OP. We don't think that at all.
It's simply not a framework for generating and testing hypotheses, therefore it isn't science. It isn't invalid, it isn't a waste of funding, and it isn't never worth discussing, but it does all boil down to analysis of statistics and correlations.
Although to be perfectly fair, sometimes people do create hypotheses relevant to the field of psychology and they do carry out a rigorous study of some aspect of that hypothesis. This is rare, though.
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Have you used it before? What was your experience? What does science say about the effects short and long term? Can it learn you to think better even when you are off of it? How detrimental is it to your health? Ritalin general I guess.
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Also interested, have also known people to take aderall for studying.
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>>8050618
Btw, this is OP and I am using it at the moment. I find it really effective, but I'm a little wary of the consequences of prolonged use. My GP said there can be no long term mental damage unless you abuse it (ie. snort, take too much), and as far I can tell is there is a slight edginess when first peak ends. But apart from that it's a miracle drug. I'm 25.
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>>8050626
Where do you get it?
Starting classes
>Engineering:
Rigor:8
Sociability:5
Bullshit Endurance:10
Job Security:10
Income:7
Versatility:5
Knowledgeability:8
Prestige:9
Luck:8
May advance in company position as an officer or businessman, but will likely become a project manager; more likely to end dead end as a senior engineer
>Physics:
Rigor:10
Sociability:3
Bullshit Endurance:8
Job Security:6
Income:5
Versatility:8
Knowledgeability:10
Prestige:10
Luck:8
May end in suicide, Michio Kaku if lucky, or rarely form a new and practical idea
>Computer Science
Rigor:4
Sociability:8
Bullshit Endurance:6
Job Security:2
Income:10
Versatility:10
Knowledgeability:6
Prestige:8
Luck:8
May advance into company officer positions/tech advisor, advocate, consultant, etc
Which one did you choose? Why?
If not listed, post.
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>>8049863
>compsci
>10 income
wew lad
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>Engineering
>Rigor:8
boy i done did do dop
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>>8049891
Stupid question, is it harder or easier?
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Anyone else feel like we might genuinely, for-real be close to fusion?
It seems like all the more recent reactor projects are making tangible strides forward, and the hard problems are finally being tackled. I think we could live to see it, bros.
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>>8049145
Here's another question.
Will it be our salvation, or a great leap toward the self annihilation of the human race?
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>>8049160
>implying that isn't the same thing
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How will we reach FTL travel without the effects of time dilation mucking it up?
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Stupid singularity nigger.
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>>8046456
Relativity is an issue with any mathematically plausible form of ftl, since you dont reach particularly fast velocities
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>>8046463
isnt*
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It is frightening that we are so close to the end.
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They've been saying this since the 80s, just like fusion
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>>8061976
Except hes been mostly right about everything he has said
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>>8062037
>Kurzweil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil
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Environmentalism and the Coming Resource Shortages 2016-05-11 17:57:35 Post No.8066631
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Environmentalism and the Coming Resource Shortages
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Hello /sci/
Given that the constraints of natural population control due to disease, famine, and other factors have largely been eradicated thanks to engineering and technological advancement: overpopulation, dwindling resources, and the destruction of the environment and reliable food and water supplies are, regardless of your political affiliation, tenable and unavoidable consequences that humanity must and will face in the next few decades. What are the most correct ethical, moral, and/or scientific solutions or approaches to this?
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>>8066631
>What are the most correct ethical, moral, and/or scientific solutions or approaches to this?
Space colonization
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>>8066631
>dwindling resources
like what?
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>>8066658
With remarkable cooperation and a massive increase in NASA's budget this is still a lofty and yet unattainable longer-term goal (say, twenty to fifty years until actualization), What would be a better interim placeholder?
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Friendly reminder about economics 2016-05-11 02:54:48 Post No.8065245
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Friendly reminder about economics
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This shouldn't come as a surprise, but do not learn economics from the internet (not talking about books you may obtain, of course), politicians or political pundits.
Economics is widely misrepresented in the media, where hugely dumbed down debates on macroeconomics from the 50-60s are still commonplace. The criticisms from "economic schools" such as the Austrians or the Post-Keynesian, which have a heavy presence online, are either misguided or completely accepted by economists. These pass an image that economics is highly ideological, where, in fact it is not, and that economics is all about macroeconomics.
What is being currently done on economics in academia has nothing to do with these debates, is highly empirical and economists "destroy" each other with skepticism (as it should be in all sciences). It also has nothing to do with what is learned in undergraduate courses, unfortunately, even though many topics could be taught to undergraduates.
If you bother to read serious economics textbooks note that these books are largely outdated and mostly stuck in the 80s and 90s. If you truly want to learn what economics is, information is spread in a lot of papers mostly from the 90s onward. Economics is young, there has been a huge shift in rigor in the 80s and 90s and it hasn't been properly compiled in textbooks yet. This is the major reason why the undergraduate courses haven't kept up, as academic papers are not as digestible by undergraduates.
The major issues in economics are that of lack external validity (many variables), lack of statistical power in macroeconomics (small samples) and unobserved variables which require imperfect methods to be estimated (the biggest one, actually). The most common result in economics, which is not published due to publication bias common in all sciences, is "you can't conclude anything", even when "intuition" says otherwise.
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>>8065245
>economics
>or, how to overfit historical data to a hypothesis that is unfalsifiable and has no predictive power
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How do I take economics as a proper science when my cousin who is doing master at a top uni in the world asked me to do quantitative assignments for her which are just dumbed down versions of our statistical class assignments?
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>>8065271
How do we take you seriously when your cousin is retarded?
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If we keep zooming out to the end, what does the Universe look like?
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consciousness.
isnt it eerie? i think the universe is somewhere we go when we sleep.
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>>8062394
wat
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>>8062394
Like the entire universe is just created by my mind?
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How do we know for sure that Earth doesn't have a twin planet opposite of the sun?
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Because there are spacecraft round the back side of the Sun with side-ward looking cameras called STEREO.
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>>8061749
Gravity.
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because of lunar and solar eclipses.
http://test.mensa.no/
Is this a trustworthy iq test?
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last time it was posted the /sci/ average was like 130
[spoiler] 128 brainlet reporting [/spoiler]
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>>8054385
This was the end result and the averege of the general population.
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>>8054367
Didnt even have time to answer the last ten so I answered them randomly. Whats the deal with the answers? Are they binary or is there a spectrum of answers?
Post cool function graphs
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isn't that squeeze theorem
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watching this thread
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khuj4ASldmU
Artists are now on suicide watch. The machines will prevail again.
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how far is too far...
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>artsy filter that works sometimes
Wow, so impressive.
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>>8066031
some point after mankind's extinction that's for sure