Ok, let's hear it: what's the highest level of math that you've ever had to use on your job? What's the highest level you use on a regular basis? Engineers, do you actually use calculus regularly (or even at all?) or do you have computer programs that take care of all that for you?
What's the most surprising kind of mathematics that you've found yourself using that you were sure you never use in the "real world?" What would you tell current engineers, maths majors, economists, etc to practice more of because you didn't and now really wish you had?
>>9088319
>Engineers, do you actually use calculus regularly (or even at all?) or do you have computer programs that take care of all that for you?
i do use it very rarely and when i do i only do it once. then i just code it into excel or matlab or something and never do it again.
>>9088356
Not too shabby of a model, but the specular mapping needs work.
let's discuss about psychedelics, your experiences with them, did they help you to become a better mathematician, did they heighten your creativity, did they help find other approaches to problems you were blocking on and so on
>>9088257
>Take LSD
>Abstract geometric shapes fly through my mind
>Dream up complex structures interacting in abstract mathematical ways, mapping simple random inputs to pattern rich, dense outputs
>Listen to abstract electronic music
>Have mini epiphanies where I, in tiny instants, formulate a generative synthesizer that could create music such as this with little human input
>Generalize that to also creating art in a similar way
>Generalize that to also creating video game environments in a similar way
>Make the scary realization that our universe might be one of these
>Think about stoner tier philosophical concepts like the simulation hypothesis, the insides of black holes, asymptotic flicker flash rates and their effect on the experience of time in the entity they are associated with, etc.
>Wonder what it's like to be a dolphin
>World engulfed by water, click to transmit messages
>Do they feel frustrated and unable to communicate effectively
>Are there any species unable to communicate to the level of their internal intelligence and none of them are aware that the others are just as smart as them but they're trapped, unable to tell each other?
>Or would they formulate their own language from hand signals or something?
>Wonder whether reality is purely a linguistic construct
>Go on for hours, eventually get bored and have a bad trip and eat a lot of food then get depressed for a week
>>9088269
Also, I can't decide whether psychedelics are truly the philosopher's stone and one of the most monumental pharmacological discoveries in human history with indescribably vast potential impacts on psychology, philosophy, and some day science
...Or just a drug that none of us should take...
>>9088272
i honestly don't know, it's just sad that those chemicals aren't further explored by the scientific community, they have potential to lift humanity up
Who here /UQ open day/?
>>9088233
shit dude that guy in the yellow shirt is me. delete this.
Why does anyone even go to open days
shit dude that chad off screen is me. delete this.
In the case of "human race" servants.
Wouldn't it be easier to create sentient life out of genetic engineering than to develop the software and the hardware necessary for robots to operate?
Yes.
>>9087960
Both take computational power that doesn't exist yet. That's why my life's work is going to be on superconductors and improving silicon motherboards. In 5 years I'll be able to make every geneticist bow down and sniff my sphincter
>>9087960
so you think society will motivate sentient life while there are some people who even treat machines like their first born It will be a problem no matter what but I am in the favor of
sentient life due to it having the ability to improve and evolve
Reminder that the difference between chimp and human intelligence is a quantitative one, not qualitative.
And what is that quantity?
Depth of cortical hierarchy
>>9087873
>15 chimp brain be gooder as human brain
can i learn a whole semester of my degree in 2 weeks?
>>9087868
Well Terrence Tao did it.
Able to solve Differential equations when 10yo.
Gold medal in International Math Olympics when 13yo.
BSc & MSc I'm Math when 16yo.
PhD in Math at Princeton with just 21yo.
Professor at UCLA in May with just 24yo.
& Math is the hardest degree.
We know that for few people like Tao it's definitely possible.
But we don't know if it's possible for me mortals like us, for the most STEM students & graduates.
>>9087868
I do it every semester...
I procrastinate until its almost over, then work really hard ad mamas to pass.
I wish I could use this"power" to learn more stuff in advance
>>9087909
You could try to find someway to speed up the graduation & get faster into Grad School.
What are some stories from scientists and mathematicians that give you the feels?
Have you ever had to deal with something stressful, emotional, or even traumatic during school that has gotten in the way of your scientific or mathematical studies, or known of someone that has? How do you manage to study and perform well despite any personal issues?
>>9087856
If God exists, why wouldn't we be able to understand it ? I don't get this viewpoint.
>>9087856
please take your /r9k/-tier autistic bullshit away from this board. discuss actual science and math.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois#Final_days
>Early in the morning of 30 May 1832, he was shot in the abdomen, abandoned by his opponents and seconds, and was found by a passing farmer. He died the following morning at ten o'clock in the Cochin hospital (probably of peritonitis), after refusing the offices of a priest.
>His last words to his younger brother Alfred were:
>Don't cry, Alfred! I need all my courage to die at twenty.
I want to go into Physics. Last semester I took Chemistry 1, which was easy, and Calculus 1, which was hard. How will Physics likely be?
>>9087668
entirely depends on your professor and school
Take Physics 1 and find out
>>9087668
Forget most of what you know about motion because it's probably wrong. Physics 1 is either really easy or you won't get it at all. If your professor is bad at explaining things it'll be annoying as hell.
Why do scientist say there's not enough evidence how testosterone gives trans males an unfair advantage in women sports?
Because its common sense, also the jews kill your relatives if you say otherwise.
because unless her bodyfat is super low, most of the testosterone will be aromatized to estrogen
that's why so many ftm people are mongoloid freaks- gotta start when body fat is below 12% for it actually work well enough and that's incredibly difficult for biological women.
>>9087573
if you have to chop your dick off to win at a sport then you're doing it wrong.
also who the hell cares about sports except mongoloids anyways?
Sup /sci/, don't know any other board to post this on so i'll post here.
The last week or so i've been having some strange headaches, it's usually short term (not longer than 10 minutes), not ultra intense but annoying. first it was behind my eye, now it moved more to my forehead. My GP told me to use nosespray to clear up my noseways so there's more air coming through.
Anything that might cause this? I have no idea.
PS: I've been changing my sleepschedule to wake up later and sleep later since there's a big Dota2 event going on.
Fuck off.
>>9087484
Your neck is tight. Get a massage.
>>9089521
not op but that could be my problem. thanks.
>how old is God?
Its simple. Pretend the universe is a movie. Right now you are at scene "2017 AD" but you press rewind to see how many scenes there have been before. Eventually you get to the big bang but you want to see beyond that. After hours of black screen you understand the rewind function will last forever. Thats how old God is.
Every single bait question /sci/ falls for on a daily basis.
>>9087413
Close and open your eyes. There you go, that what infinity feels like after you die.
Brainlet questions are usually characterized by being heavily loaded.
>What is the meaning of life?
This question implicitly claims that "life has a meaning," but the person make no effort in showing why the claim would be true. Thus the people, who ask questions like this, are just looking for affirmation that life is not completely meaningless.
>What happens after you die?
This question implicitly claims that "something happens after you die." In this context, "death" no longer stands for "you cease to exist", but rather "you teleport to different place and perhaps also transform into different body". Thus the people who ask questions like this are either A) incapable of abstract thought, or B) afraid of dying, and thus want to soften the definition of "death".
What does /sci/ think about bioinformatics? Not as a degree, (focused degrees a trash) but as a research area?
I've seen a lot of bioiformatics data published recently and it's really bothering me. This Kevin H.M. Kuo fellow and his collegues are thieves.
I have been publishing the same data for years and have proof on several forums. I have mentioned this multiple times on /sci/ too.
It's fucking obvious and I'm glad it's finally published so I can gain recognition through another's effort.
But then again I probably influenced the publisher so really I'm the mastermind.
Believe me or not, I have proof on multiple forums and date/time stamps.
>>9087495
Those cunts.
>>9087495
not very nice of them
maybe write to them? or talk to someone at your uni, or your countries academy of sciences, dunno
A lot of Channers don't know how basic most programming and coding systems are to the creator, and that the illusion that covers their programs with a mask is merely the lack of intelligence that the interpreter faces in deciphering the algorithm.
When I first discovered there was a mathematical coding system incorporated into 17th century ciphers that led to major troves of religious treasures, I began to study more of the systems that were used to create them.
In this stone slab, is a complex system of coding that is used to deliver messages in spanish, english, using a wheel cipher, and using a keyword that was encoded using masonic themes of the Biblical tales of Revelations.
Its quite the piece of work, and to top it off the master who crafted it used two types of symbols, religious characters/symbols, and a mix of mathematical symbols. These were used to deliver two different messages, one for the wheel cipher, and the other to be drawn physically generating a coded template akin to a Merica Star overlaid on a rose compass symbol.
The messages were then used to guide the individual out of the largest trap ever envisioned.
The master cryptographer, was reinterring something in this tomb, something so important that they vowed not to speak about it for over 100 years.
With this foundation of Geometry, Mathematics, and other forms of Geomancy laid into the studies of these ciphers, a whole new layer of information was found in the texts of Shakespeare that correlated to directions with these symbols, and how to use them.
The whole thing began with two paintings that were known in France, that hang in the Louvre, a hidden section of history and the sciences that are entombed in a series of majestic clues left for the Sublime Prince to discover, along with the reasoning behind the destruction of his Kingdom.
The information can be found here :
www.facebook/secretmission4king
I love the national treasure movies
>>9087365
It's more of an art than science, actually.
>>9087365
It's Mathematics/Computer Science.
/sci/ is for nerds
>>9087300
t. Wage slave
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Gooks are truly disgusting.
>>9087300
Nope. Sci used to be for nerds. I remember when this was an interesting board. Now it's been ruined by angsty undergrads, idiots discussing IQ, race bait threads and flat earthers. The only way to make /sci interesting again would be heavy-handed mods and containment boards. At the moment it's just an extension of /pol and /b...pretty much a waste of time for anyone actually interested in science and math.
So, it turns out they're seemingly as intelligent as primates:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htqUFDGR5mE
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdEMu68a7nY
>https://www.livescience.com/34237-hyenas-last-laugh.html
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/9530134/Hyenas-are-as-bright-as-primates-research-shows.html
>https://today.duke.edu/2009/09/hyenas.html
>http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/08/01/rspb.2012.1450
>>9087263
This is very interesting OP, thanks for the links
>>9087280
That's alright.
I'd only just learnt this myself today and was pleasantly surprised.
I wish I had animal friends