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>>7799912
All of the decay pathways are well understood. Just look them up and find ones that are either neutron or proton mediated.

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Reduce which kind of waste? There is a huge range of stuff from waste material when making fuel to highly radioactive waste material from spent fuel and low level radioactive material such as used clothing.

Anyway, getting depleted uranium should not be too hard, there is a mountain of the stuff and people have no idea what to do with it.

Since I am a phycisist and have always wanted to exclaim "Stand back! I am a scientist!!" I'll offer a free suggestion: reduce waste by turning it to something useful.

Get some low level waste (avoid neutron and gamma sources) and place it on a solar cell to see how much energy you get out and how quickly the solar cell is damaged by radiation.

Next place a fluorescent material between the waste and the solar cell to convert radiation to light and lower radiation level. Again measure cell damage over time.

>>7800211
Literally, all the waste. Either find some use for it or help reduce it. The storage ponds are the biggest concern over here. No one literally knows what's down there. This is a huge safety concern but as of now we're running a project of sorts.

Need some sort of experimentation to do but the problem is we're not going to be handed spent fuel rods or any sort of radioactive waste. Just hoping someone can suggest some sort of experimentation to do in relation to reducing radioactive waste or decommissioning

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Not if their digestive system has pathogens beforehand.

If I locked 20 monkeys up and had them shitposting all day everyday would their shitposts eventually be the same?

>>7800555
Yes.

arrangement on what geometry?

Actually, too easy a puzzle, the following arrangement seems to be the most effective yieldings fourteen váginias:
_O_O_
O_O_O
_O_O_
__O__

Presumably, this solution also extends infinitely, with 7 legs being a hexagon, then further legs layering gradually to make larger hexagons.
Anyone got better geometric puzzles?

>>7799445
8 in what base?

It looks like /sci/ is passed the point of cute girls existing in college science labs. I know this is my inevitable future of being in a STEM major.

I am speaking for everyone when i say you are a faggot.

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>>7798712
top cuck

I make it a point to never work with female classmates, unless they're on my level. Haven't met one yet, though

Rather than P=NP, i am more amused by the blatant violation of Fermat theorem in the back

Could someone spoon feed a litfag about why this is such a big deal?

>>7799288
NP problems are renowned for being exponentially difficult to solve with greater variables. if someone were to bring them into P time, they would be solvable with far less computational power, and not with exponential increase in difficulty.

the conjecture of P=NP is that if you can bring an NP problem into P space, you can bring ALL NP problems into P space. this would mean that it's possible to break cryptography's entropy barrier with far less computational resources than anticipated.

>>7798462
bamp

Try for a masters program first.

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>>7798510
The thing is I currently couldnt afford a masters program while PhD's offer stipends and pay for research. Should have mentioned that, sorry

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sci please

>>7797946
>posting animu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiS6a1XE91M

>>7798034

I just want attention and information on astrodynamics.

I microwaved a hotdog wrapped with aluminum foil

Looked down the barrel of a tennis ball mortar to see why it wasn't igniting. At that point it ignited and burned my eyebrows off.

I was a drug addict for years.

Currently earning my maths phd.

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Interpret this any way you like.

>>7786879
I guess some feminists just want to tell people that women are equally intelligent to men "in some way"

>>7786872
> Are those so-called "kinds of intelligence" and "everyone smart in someway" real or just propaganda made by psychologist to appeal and get money from people?

I don't think you know what psychologists actually research and do. I'm not a psychology major myself, but some of my friends are. The research they are doing alongside their peers and advisors is actually quite interesting and diverse. It varies from the "soft" spheres like interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, and social-science stuff; to more cognitive and behavioral focused areas like addiction, learning, and memory formation; the clinical areas of neuroscience, brain development, psychopathlogy; to math-heavy areas like computational modeling, statistics, and organizational theories.

The students going into cognitive programs and behavioral programs seem the most /sci/ to me. Clinical programs are /sci/, but the students going into them are just going into it because they think it will land them a decent job (not realizing the market is over-saturated). Social psychology and pedagogical psychology is a joke.

>>7786889
Most of the impetus in psychology research seems to come from three things: autism, substance abuse, and the military. You're guaranteed to find at least one person doing something with autism in every psych department, along with another guy hooking wires up the the craniums of depressed drunks and seeing what happens. The military seems to put money into psych research all the time -- a couple people I know are actually going to an airforce base over the summer to do research on learning.

To the OP's question: given how seriously psychology researchers and publications take research methods and quantitative data, I would consider psychology to be a real science. These qualities clearly distinguish it from the social sciences.

Side note: those cognitive and behavioral guys I mentioned earlier prefer to be called "cognitive scientists" and "behavioral scientists."

>>7800787
By the way, I won't have access to a computer till tomorrow night, so I'll check up on thread then.

Thanks to anyone who even takes their time to read this.

>>7800787
First off, maybe you can't do it. That's okay. A lot of Unis have entry examinations that will assess your math level. Since that is the case, there's no shame in taking a year off, studying on your own/at a JC and then applying to the Uni you want to go to.
Second, Khan Academy will be just about the most efficient way to do this- reading textbooks will almost certainly take more time to do than KA.
Thirdly,
a quadratic equation is one of the form
[math]
f(x) = Ax^2 + Bx + C
[/math]
with the solutions
[math]
x = \frac{-B \pm \sqrt{B^2 - 4AC}}{2A}
[/math]
where B, A and C are the coefficients from the first equation.

Nobody?

>>7800653
For homework go to >>>/hm/

>>7800709

It's not homework mate I'm genuinely failing to understand where to go from there.

>>7800603
I prefer using sympy+Ipython notebook because you can more easily port the code to larger python code.

>>7800603
First time I hear about this.
I won't lie, it looks awesome. Actually, I think this is exactly what I've been looking for.
Tried using Spyder before, it was ok. But I think this might be even better.
Can I write other python scripts using this, or is it strictly math only? I mean, there's an editor and a console, you can pretty much use it for what you need?

>>7800603
>>7800652
Wait, does this have it's own IDE, or is it something like Notebook, you run it from your browser only?

Reminds me of the song Seen and Not Seen by Talking Heads

>>7800475
Applied math works very well without "pure" math.

>>7800477
There wouldn't have been any applied math without it being "pure" in some sense.
First it is considered pure. Then it gets applied. Simple as that. Both are needed, both are getting work. None is better than the other.

You babbies better stop this debate.

>>7800545
"applied math" didn't wait for riemann to compute integrals.

>>7800405
>competing about big marbles in the sky

>anime invented Planet X
ok

>>7800405
>old news
But anyway, we always knew there was something out there in the Oort cloud which explains weird orbits of things like sedna through gravitational protuberance. This is nothing new. It aint no nibiru though.