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>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/82cf842e-0cc5-11e6-b41f-0beb7e589515.html#axzz46vEMVHZJ
Looks like based Elon is gonna lead the charge on colonising Mars
Will Elon's overworked SpessEcks team be able to pull this off? Seems like NASA are all for it at least
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>>8037262
Falcon Heavy and it's 27 engines will blow up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket)
If that doesn't happen then the lander will be shot down by aliens.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a17407/mars-mission-failures/
NASA gets a free pass now because Obama is a reptillian.
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>Infinite sets thread
Convince me to escape from the prison of finitism and ultrafinist mathematics. Burger has some compelling arguments for finitism and the nonexistence of infinite sets.
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>>8037207
>some compelling arguments
>Have you ever seen an infinity before?
>No, you haven't
>Does it make sense for this drumstick to be infinitely long?
>No, it doesn't
>Therefore infinite sets don't exist, QED.
It certainly convinced me.
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>>8037244
Why shouldn't we try to re-construct analysis without relying on infinite sets?
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>>8037207
Infinity is inherently flawed. It leads to paradoxes such as 0.999... = 1
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How can you tell if you're vitamin deficient?
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Get tested fag.
If you can't afford a doctors visit and are worried just make sure you eat balanced meals ;)
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>>8037139
>Get tested fag.
Where? Just a local lab that offers blood tests? Should I even visit my doctor before testing?
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>>8037137
The doctor will tell you that you're deficient in vitamin D and iron. Then you're gonna have to pay for pills all the time. Fucking shitty. I'd rather stay deficient. I eat balanced, but there's just no way to get 100% of everything unless you're a health freak.
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>2 yrs ago
want to get a STEM BS/MS degree
you will become:
>a lab monkey (SCIENCE)
coding in some backwater ass language
"Did you clean this shit up? Finish running trials?...Damn it anon, wash your hands and do it over again. Don't fuck up my matrix"
>a survey monkey / dilbert
measuring constraints with shitty scripts and excel
>not actually designing anything
"No, we have designers for that anon, we just need to know if this joint can handle this much stress, we'll change everything up and let you check our work :^)"
>a code monkey (CS)
coding shitty java apps
"Anon, I need high performance Java code :^). We just got info from our engineers. I know its possible to make this joint move further without stress, so can you fix the kinematics? Also, it needs be able to gallop sideways because meme lol."
>You finally see the light
>The "PASSION" meme is bullshit
>switch from AE to CS
>2016
>graduating
>Intel HPC now
fuck bitches get money
If you are not going into academia, why does PASSION mean anything to you /sci/?
You'll become someone else's bitch, with little freedom, and little claim to the work you've done in industry any way you choose.
Why not go the highest paying route/the one with the highest job mobility? I mean, playing with Eigen for a few years isn't as bad as not being paid at all / less than an HVAC as a non-phd scientist or getting capped early on. The majority of people being appointed to higher positions are typically CS or non-niche engineers.
Why did you choose something other than CS?
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>>8037118
This post reads like severe course-taker's guilt.
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>being scared of aero
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>>8037118
So basically you were too much of a bitch to get through Aerospace Engineering and you switched to an easier degree like Computer Science.
i really don't see what the point of this thread is.
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I quit Math when they started using musical notes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_isomorphism
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>>8036955
Oh yeah, well I quite math when they started using infinite sets.
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>>8036955
Those are flat and sharp signs, you cunt. They raise and lower pitches, antirespectively. It's a joke.
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Actually the musical isomorphism makes a lot of sense.
Vectors have upper indices. 1-forms have lower indices.
The flat morphism lowers the upper indices to lower indices and makes a 1-form from a vector field... (by taking inner products with respect to the metric)
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So I stuck a multimeter on a protein bar and it gave off a residing. Explanations?
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not impressed
mac gyver did a detonator with it
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>white chocolate macadamia nut
shit taste woman
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1. You must be 18+ to use 4chan
2. Do your own lab
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Whenever I'm not telling the future, I already happened. Who am I?
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tiem
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>>8036944
Nice
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>>8036938
Answer:
I am ...
a...
Prediction.
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>failed my multivariable calc class
>freshman year, doing shitty in all other classes as well
Is life over after this? College is only going to get harder. Is there any point in continuing? My GPA is shit, I will never get a research position or opportunity to go to grad school after this, why even try any more
can i still be an astronaut? do they take people who fail multivariable calc?
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>>8036872
it'll be ok, dude
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>>8036872
If you really want to be an astronaut, just keep fighting for it. Failure at this stage isn't catastrophic. Just redouble your efforts
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Just quit. You should go those with ease to get into harder stuff.
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help me /sci/
I'm approaching the end of my last year of
highschool and I have no idea what to do after this when I reach community college
it feels like everything is pushed towards the STEM fields, but I already fucked myself over in that regard
I'm not good at anything in particular and I have zero hobbies, but worst of all I'm pretty sure I'm a dumbass.
my attendance in school has always been really mediocre which really ruined my foundation for a lot of the math courses I took.
here's a small outline of my highschool academic career in math
>freshman year
>taking algebra 1
>fail the class because I never showed up and didn't do any of the work
>take the algebra 1 new york state regents anyway just for fun
>pass with a 76
>sophomore year comes
>have to retake algebra 1 that year while all my peers take geometry
>pass algebra 1
>junior year arrives
>i take geometry while everyone else is in algebra 2 and trig
>miss class a lot again, but pass geometry anyway and the regents test for it pretty easily
>senior year now
>all my classmates are taking pre calc or calc
>im in algebra 2 trig, but it's being taught common core style
>the geometry and algebra I learned was all taught pre common core
>never show up to the class
now here I am with an extremely shoddy math foundation and no actual hobbies besides browsing 4chan
how fucked am I for community college? what do I study if I don't enjoy anything and I'm horrible at math?
pls help
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1. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_academic_disciplines
2. Read popular books on the field you chosen
3. Find a hobby besides the Internet
4. Write down your goals and their motivation
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>>8036725
>what do I study if I don't enjoy anything and I'm horrible at math?
Either go to a trade school or do something academic that is interesting but doesn't need math.
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>>8036869
I wish people took good advice. OP is prolly looking for a golden bullet to save his towers from the plane he hijacked.
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Who is your favorite alternative scientist and why?
Mine is pic related because he is smarter than all of them and didnt need acadummia to achieve it.
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>>8036721
This guy is a complete idiot the only thing he is good at is taking iq test, id imagine that is all you would do when you feel inadequate because your life is shit and you live in a trailer. You take tons of these stupid ass test to find reassurance, and you end up being good at taking them, what a hack
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>>8036728
he took one test and scored higher than anyone ever has
please dont be mad because his brain is inherently better than yours in every way
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>>8036745
You're trolling hard
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who else struggling with the foundations of arithmetic here?
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>>8036701
We don't
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i'm still bugged with the fact that two negs make a positive
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>>8036706
>i'm still bugged with the fact that two nigs make a poz
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>read about probabilistic and quantum Turing machines and algorithmic complexity
>become really interested in CS
>finally decide to take a CS class to learn more
>look through my university's list if courses in the CS department
>go to theoretical CS lecture
>mfw the professor only talks about memes and video games
>mfw the smelly neckbeards in the class don't even understand the P vs NP question
>mfw I don't learn shit in that course
CS is a meme.
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>>8036672
Welcome to intro CS courses. Have you heard people mispronounce basic English yet? My favorite was the self-imposed "biggest nerd" pronouncing cache with a long a.
Intro CS is the meme. We covered 1/3 of a C textbook in a full quarter that I read in two weeks. C is not a big language.
Just wait until you have group projects.
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Who accredits the accreditors of universities?
There's corruption all the way through the system.
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>>8036672
Mate you're in a bad university. I do computer science, it is only algorithm complexity, no bullshit like for you
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I wanna teach myself chemistry
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>took general chem 3 times, made dees.
>passed ACS examinations.
>over 10 years ago
All I remember learning is some dumb trivia that didn't apply to anything, not the underlying causes for the reactions observed in the lab.
How would I go about determining what causes a reaction between one thing and another, such as to convert paint stripper & bleach into pic related?
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>>8036542
General rules for "underlying causes" were mostly in the end of the gen chem series, and then you move to higher courses to have those general rules corrected. You seem to want a free pass to avoid the "boring basics". Don't think you're going to get that.
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>>8036561
You're right. I don't want to learn anything; it takes too long. Is there a practical way to do chemistry, some sort of tool kit? Or are chemistry sets illegal, because meth/bombs/scary shit: the post.
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>>8036612
You can buy glassware and basic lab instruments on Amazon. Enjoy killing yourself in complete ignorance, there are countless ways.
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Get in here, discuss your current engineering major, how much you like it, job prospects, and what you like about it
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i'm shit at calculus and wondering how i'll get through differential equations over the summer. how much calculus is there in differential equations? i've only done single-variable calculus
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>>8036531
This is literally how I would imagine working at an engineering firm is like but just doing this for 12 hours a day
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Let's talk Sealand and other offshore constructions.
I'm no engineering expert, which is why I'm asking you guys this. If someone were to somehow acquire an offshore structure such as an oil rig, would it be possible to expand off of it? How would this be done? At what point would support struts be needed to hold up any extra land?
Yes, I was thinking about Outer Heaven.
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>>8036501
I have no idea I just found a reason to post this
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>>8036501
Not enough data for meaningful answer.
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>>8036501
Why not modular barges.