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>>7750350
Global warming isn't going to kill humanity, just a bunch of humans. We'll do just fine in that regard, there are far worse things to be concerned about - not to say we shouldn't address it.

>>7750351
Good point. Do you think this will increase the gap of superpowers and impoverished nations? Do I have to worry about America's dominance ending? I've heard the bread basket will no longer be as fertile.

Also, what's the best area to live and buy land with my mind on the future? The South will be underwater and fucked by increasingly strong storms. Should I move to the midwest or the west?

Global warming will happen regardless. Id be more worried about the next resistant super virus if i were you.

>>7754775
My public university has an analog of Math 55, Harvard's super hard, super respected class. It's two semesters of Calculus on Manifolds, plus a bunch of other high-level stuff. I showed my textbook to a grad student who studied at a UC school and he replied "this is shit I don't even know." After my freshman year I can take senior-level and grad-level classes.

Moral? Maybe everyone at MIT gets a good education, but one can get an MIT-level education at a lot of places other than (OP would say "worse than") MIT if one is willing to work hard enough.

>>7754787
What school is this? Sounds interesting.

>>7754793
I won't say what school exactly, but you'll have to trust me that if I were to tell you, you'd most likely be surprised. It's not a recognized top tier public school (UC, Michigan, William and Mary, etc), but it still has great programs. Not trying to brag about my school ( even if that's what it sounds like), just trying to emphazise that Harvard/MIT/Caltech quality students will find ways to give themselves top-tier level educations regardless of where they go--which is the opposite of what OP is saying, basically, which is that the institution, not the student, is the deciding and dominant factor in quality of education.

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>>7735501

Yearly reminder that anything short of all A's is a disgrace

B+
A
A
Which is about par for grad school.

That last grade was shortly an F before I called up the prof and informed him that my final had been in his email for a week.

>>7735501
I like you OP

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>>7752144
they're shit posting on 4chan whilst sad NEET's respond in hopeful attempts to find meaning to their pathetic lifes

>>7752144
106 IQ(Checked it online tho) here. I don't want to live anymore. Are online tests dubious? Do I have any chance to succeed?

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>>7752165
iq doesnt mean much when death is inevitable and our lifes are biological accidents

How do you quantify harm? Also, butane?

>>7750756
I'm guessing they took data based off of crimes/assaults where the offender was high, and probably recorded hospital/suicide/whatever data to record self-harm.

Marijuana is way more psychologically harmful than physically harmful though

>>7750760
>Marijuana is way more psychologically harmful than physically harmful though
If you're weak willed and easily succumb to addiction

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Here is a vane pump in comparison, as you see there are much more moving parts.

Delete the thread and patent it you moron. Gid mone. Fug bishes.

So did you build a working prototype or planning too? Would be cool with a plexiglass plate on top.

>>7752842

If he's so smart, how come he's dead?

Checkmate, atheists!

I'm just a dopey freshman in physics, but my thoughts about him:

-He was a genius. Hard to argue against. He was a whiz at math (Putnam fellow, for Christ's sake) and his contributions to physics both added knowledge AND an understanding to the field of QCD. Not anyone can add mathematical formalism to field, but even less can do so in such a way that the formalism seems to make intuitive sense.

-He was a great teacher. What he did for academic physicists, he did for undergraduates. I've worked through a bit of the Feynman lectures, and they are all they are cracked up to be. I especially recommend the Feynman Tips on Physics--Google for a pdf, worth the read, especially if you are riddled with intellectual insecurities like me (and like 90% of /sci/).

-He was a human--that is to say,flawed. What doesn't get mentioned about Feynman is how flawed he was. Everyone ridicules his second wife for saying he "does calculus all the time" in her divorce filings, but she also describes how he'd be a physical bully to her, throw things in anger, and yell. Yes, his first wife had died, yes, it was a different time, but still. Reading "Surely You're Joking", you read about his attitude towards women after his first wife died, before his second marriage, where he describes girls as bitches, and gets mad at them if they won't sleep with him. I'm not trying to be a SJW here, but it is still something that goes against his wacky-uncle-of-physics image we nerds create.

TL;DR: Feynman was a great scientist, a great teacher, and a man from the 50's--with all that implies.

>>7752842

>>7748478
Because it uses meme equations like 1+2+3+... = -1/12

>>7748495
What classifies an equation as a "meme equation"?

>>7748495
g8 b8 m8

Essentially, CE designs the hardware that runs computers (i.e. hard drive, ram, etc.) CS designs the software and programs to run on said hardware. Just a basic overview. First post on 4chan also, go anons

CS: software
CE: hardware

>>7743190
What's software engineering and how's it's different

Pic unrelated.

>>7748735
>How painful is hanging oneself

Depends on how it's done. If you just cut of circulation it takes a few seconds and then it's done

>>7748737
I mean the typical head and tie sort of way, I'm not sure of the specifics.

It wasn't a long-drop that snaps the neck if that's what you're asking.

Pressure was applied by his body, not by kneeling or anything of the sort.

Some sources I've read say thrashing and such go on for a couple minutes after the neck is suspended, which seems like a hell of a lot of time.

>>7746179
If We can't make any observation then all there is is theoretical math

>>7746179

A singularity of unknowable density. Essentially a massive amount of bosons all occupying the same quantum state with a mass of several suns to several billion suns.

Is there any known limit to how dense a blackhole can get?

>>7737067
Not notably. A drug dependence won't hurt the progress of science, it'll hurt the progress of the dependent's science.

>>7737067
The taboo against amphetamine and cocaine may have harmed it more.

>>7737067
>taboo against drugs in general

Fixed. Everyone still thinks shit like ecstasy, cocaine and heroin are a boogeyman. When used in moderation, people can actually function normally on these drugs.

Nobody reading this thread will live past the age of 120. A billion years is quite a stretch.

The thermodynamic limits of the universe are not the reason you will die.

>>7749709

When I become a computer why wouldn't I be able to live for a billion years?

>>7734467
Undergrad focusing on machine learning/theoretical shit and discrete math here. I honestly hated cs and wanted to go full discrete math before I started taking courses on machine learning

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Where does everyone download their papers from for free?

Good news everyone

Deep Learning
An MIT Press book in preparation

https://goodfeli.github.io/dlbook/

>implying they are

>>7750078
>implying they're not

>>7750073
just chemicals man