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>>7998069
>he thinks applied mathematics is solely computations

stick to pure math you fedora

>>7998069
to be quite honest, doing computations all day might actually be pretty fun.

>>7998069
>applied mathematics
>only computations
It is not true, the methods that thy use in real applied mathematics range through all of mathematics. For example: some practical problem boils down to solwing a nonlinear pde. Eangeneers usualy employ numerical methods to approximate the solution of the pde, but te you have a crucial question: is the solution of your equation unique? Then to showthe uniquness they employs really fuced up results from analysis -ranging from Banach fiex poin theorem to theory of borwer degree, morover the proofs of the rsults that they use can somtiems be translated to writing an algorithm that will converge to the solutions. Applied mathematics can be awsome.

>>7996918
No, you didn't.

Also, frogposting is cancer. Kys

>>7996925
>No, you didn't.

Yep, I did. I'm good looking and can pretty much say anything and women will still sleep with me.

Was she fat?
Did she have a speech disorder?
Asthmatic?
Allerrgic to everything in existence?
And extremely fat?

Is that a Bingo?

>>7994422
>Can you tear apart a black hole with an even more massive black hole?

If you assume that the mass really is compressed into a point-shaped singularity then no. At best you could warp the geometry of the event horizon but you can't get a gravitational gradient across a point and therefor can't tear parts off it either.

>>7994567

So what would happen if you put two black holes next to each other? Nothing?

>>7994606
They'd merge into a bigger black hole.

associate mathematician

The maths associate's assistant

>>7994068
Literally nothing. I didn't even know that they offered associates degrees for math. That's only two years of school, so the most advanced thing you could have possibly covered is linear algebra.

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>>7992498
>6"1/2
>dad 6"3

tfw genelet

>>7992498
All the tall men died in WW2 and the manlets inherited the Earth and started the height ladder over again

>Every male seems to be the same height or taller than their dad.

This is not correct.

>Why aren't humans at least 8' tall if Napoleon was 5'8" 200 years ago?

Clearly the selection pressure isn't enough to drive such a change. People also actually get to eat enough growing up nowadays so that helps.

https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/research-will-help-protect-us-climate-change-storms

are you retarded?

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Life will continue after us. It has survived 5 mass extinctions, what's another few to it.

>>7998383
> are you retarded
> uwaterloo.ca
the irony...

>>7998032
>this board is so apt to dismiss IQ as a standard of measure
only the brainlets

>>7998032
be published

>>7998032
Having a cozy research position with a couple postdocs under you

>>7997355
in the real world success is measured in terms of achievements.

some of the people who don't have them try to bullshit themselves and others.

how fascinating.

You're right. The posters on /sci/ who claim they could have invented calculus are failures who want to cling on to something because their self-worth is determined by how "smart" they see themselves as being. This creates a lot of cognitive dissonance when they are faced the with reality of them being failures in science (not graduating high school, college, not finishing their graduate degree, not publishing breakthroughs in their fields). They try to compensate for this by claiming they were "born in the wrong era".

Just ignore these people. It's not worth it to get into an argument with them.

>>7997355
It seems troubling that some of us value having the ability to regurgitate what we're taught more than that freethinking ability...

>>7997326
I like him. One of the few non-retarded philosophers.

>>7997326
>philosopher
Into the trash it goes

>>7997784
This guy is cool. His theories are, very, not scientific, but they are fun. His famous claim is that something about subjective experience can never be explained by underlying physical processes. He then proposes that conciousness is somehow a property of our universe. His ideas are fun to think about AND to laugh at! I also associate him with this survey of philosophers he organized:
http://philpapers.org/archive/BOUWDP

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>>7996097
Also, if it helps, I'm doing this to complement my computer science and programming studies. A lot of it skims over math that I don't have much trouble with, but I feel like learning certain mathematic disciplines separately would really help.

>>7996097
Just use Khan Academy, Patrick JMT, plus Paul's Math Notes Lamar for extra problems.

For calculus books Larsen, Stewart are standard texts.

>>7996131
I'm not really a fan of relying entirely on YouTube/video lessons. I learn most effectively from hardcopy material, with a combination of MOOC resources.

Thanks for the standard text suggestions.

>>7994240
x/0 = ∞
x = ∞ * 0
x = 0

But x is any positive real number. So you're contradicting yourself.

>>7994240
>>7994254
[math]\frac{x}{0} = x \infty[/math]

Problem solved.

>>7994240
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHdlHTsXbZg

Khan has a video on this subject in his algebra series.

How do you cure psychological problems without psychology ?

>>7994000
I'm not really saying it's not legit. I'm just saying it's not a science. Slight but real difference

>>7993997
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#Contemporary_issues_in_methodology_and_practice
http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248

It's not really a pseudoscience, but it desperately lacks the rigor in the other sciences (natural sciences). Additionally, very few of psych undergrads end up as researchers worthy of the title 'scientist'.

theres 4 tbchwyf

>>7997712
There are 7 on your map...

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naw flim flam, there's 12 main plates/continents

>he thinks India is part of Asia

>>7995984
Putting down others doesn't raise you up. Elon is one of the greatest humans of all time.

>>7995992
> I mean yeah he built SpaceX, Tesla and PayPal...
What the fuck more do you need ?

>>7995992
Yes, as a HUMAN, he is very respectable...

as a MAN... well,
>literally begged his ex wife to get back either him and still pays her 4 mil a year to be with him

>>7995816
Why fund anything that isnt the single most immediately pressing issue facing you?

>>7995816
the greatest issues can't be solved with government spending. But technologies for military application do come out of it, ICBM etc.

>>7995826
Space exploration is the scientific pursuit with the worst cost to benefits ratio out there