Do scientist have the technology to turn straight people gay?
I'm asking for a friend
>>7916266
I have a friend who claims to have a sexually attractive interest to females. He has no romantic attractive to female. My friend has a romantic interest in males. He's not sexually attractive to them. My friend is wondering if it's possible for science to change his preferences.
Yeah it's called 4chan.
>Everyone hate General Chemistry
Why is this dislike so common? I didn't even major in Chemistry/ChemE and I loved it.
>>7916166
because turboautists here are only interested in math and physics
>>7916166
it was the labs desu.
>>7916166
For me, it's the labs. I actually like the material, but the labs are long, boring and tedious
How do you remember all of this?
>>7916085
Just having a pure interest and enjoyment in the subject.
It's called Selective Learning. There's faggots who can memorise hundreds of lines from films because they enjoy films, a chart with 100 or elements is nothing.
I remember 20 more elements and their placements than the average person I meet, because I was more interested in Chemistry than them, not because they're dumber.
>>7916085
Tell your instructor that if you wanted to memorize things you would study biology. The entire purpose of the periodic table is to be used as a cheat sheet, not for lazy teachers to assign as busy work for students.
Just remember the important ones and your favorites. Properties help a lot. I thought scandium was another boring transition metal but then I learned it was basically a lanthanide.
Does anybody here have a degree in earth science/geology? What are the job prospects? Do you like your career? What's the pay like in this field
>>7916054
>What are the job prospects?
FUEL AND MINERALS
BS in bio and geo, working on my MS in geo
there's good money to be made in petroleum and mining, otherwise you work in academia or for surveying organizations.
I'm a paleofag so I'm definitely in academia. the only use oil companies have for paleontology is biostratigraphy and conodont color alteration
>>7916054
I only know geology major and he went geology so he could focus on playing football and getting drunk because he figured it was easy enough that he didn't need to study. Also his dad worked in a mine and so he thought rocks and tunnels were moderately interesting.
He was pretty much correct afaik.
Stupid Questions thread
>non-stupid questions allowed
I noticed my post got over the post limit so I'll re-post here:
>>7915753
>>7915823
[math]\sqrt{a \ast b} = \sqrt{a} \ast \sqrt{b}[/math]
You can't add 2 square roots unless a=b.
How do I get the inequality in (56) ?
I suspect it involves the triangular inequality but I can't work out the details.
Are the dangers of smoking overblown?
No. But do what you want, it will be good for natural selection
Weed? If anything, it's not acknowledged enough. The smoke does seriously irritate your lungs. Not like tar of cigarettes, but any small particles in your lungs will irritate it. Not just from the paper, but from the plant material as well. Vaping it is okay I guess. Nothing wrong with pure THC.
>>7915693
>There's really no legitimate problems with being addicted to a substance.
Enjoy your additional unnecessary expenses.
What drugs can I do without losing neutrons?
>>7915665
Any/all of them
/thread
>>7915665
You don't 'lose' neurons, just fuck up the interactions between them
>>7915669
>neurotoxicity isn't a thing
wew lad
I want to work for google, first as a software engineer then as a researcher into immortality at calico labs. Lastly I would transition to neurological and cyberdization so I can lend a hand in the transhumanist effort once google unveils that department. All the while I want to work on making robots at boston dynamics for fun when I have vacation time.
How can I achieve my goals? What schools should I go to?
>>7915557
>How can I achieve my goals?
By working hard, your ass off if you can.
>What schools should I go to?
The best engineering school you can get into.
>>7915561
Ok I can do that.
>>7915557
>study immortality at calico
It's a racket. I know ppl close to the project. They aren't close to anything beneficial to anyone but Google's brand.
are there any majors outside of STEM that are actually worthwhile and come with decent job offerings?
All you ever seem to read online about non STEM field majors is how they are unemployed now.
nope
Actually it's STEM that has way more graduates than jobs, precisely because of this retarded circlejerking.
>>7915524
College isn't job training, retard. If you want job training then go to a fucking trade school.
Is a LaTeX generated document the most beautiful thing in the world?
>>7915414
Well not that one the graph is way too fucking bold.
>>7915414
Honestly I'm tired of the standard tex look. Lacks heft.
>>7915450
\usepackage{palatino}
Is taking notes actually fucking necessary?
I'm in year 3 engineering now and have written thousands and thousands of pages of notes. Realistically, I never really look back at them (maybe a quick glance while I'm doing a practice problem). Even before a test or a final I don't review notes, I just do practice problems.
My question is - Why do people take notes? Why not just write down the relevant formulas, make them make sense in your head through reading, and then just do practice questions?
This is coming from a guy who didn't take a single note during Calc I/II. I literally just went through the stewart book's practice questions and referred to the text instead of any notes.
Also, to clarify: For non technical courses, or more elaborate explanations of some scientific processes, shorthand notes are of course necessary. But for any math or physics course ever, why do people even write "notes" down? Shouldn't one put themselves in the situation where they have the problem in front of them and have to think about what they just read from the text/heard from the lecture to apply it to a problem? Why spend hours and hours copying notes?
>thousands and thousands of pages
No you haven't
What are the chances of getting dubs?
>>7915254
1 in 11 retard
>>7915294
Test 1
>>7915254
10 in 99
>If you don't score above 80% in your STEM subjects, you shouldn't be studying/pursuing a career in STEM
Is this true /sci/? Every bio I've read about phd students, post docs, lecturers, TA and professors, all have immaculate academic records or atleast well above a 80% average overall
>tfw 65% average in my bachelors in Math so far
>>7915068
65 % sounds like a lot to me, the passing rate for exams in my chem BSc is never significantly higher and sometimes lower than that.
But most of what I heard from TA is that they usually are good, but not constant overachievers. Profs are straight outstanding, no exception I know of.
I also plan to pursue a career in STEM, what I have been told is that grades in BSc matter really little and your MSc should just be good, but not necessarily better than straight B / < 2.0 / whatever the equivalent in Switzerland would be.
It's kind of funny. I have made A's on my first to Calculus tests but made a 50% on my Chemistry test. I should have just taken Physics instead of Chemistry. Chemistry fucking sucks and it looks like im going to stuck taking Chemistry 102 even though I am going into Comp Sci
In other words, JUST.
>>7915140
>I am going into Comp Sci
>Should've taken physics instead of chemistry
If you hate chemistry so much right now, physics would've made you suicide.
ITT we post a topic in math and then people post applications of it
I'll start: algebraic geometry
>>7915001
Visualising atomic electron orbitals
Algebraic Topology
computational neurodynamics
It's there any linear algebra guide for game programmers?
I can't understand how those formulas work in a programming language.
>>7914894
why do you want a linear algebra guide for programmers? just learn linear algebra and stop being lazy
>>7914912
I can't understand how linear algebra can be translated into code.
http://golibgen.io/view.php?id=800859