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This thread IS NOT for undergraduates or first year graduate students YOU WILL BE IGNORED. Any questions about what classes to take / how to get into graduate school / research areas will be IGNORED. NO UNDERGRADUATES ALLOWED.

PhD graduates, What are you up to now that you have a PhD? What sort of jobs did you get or are you looking for? Doing post-docs / get hired as a prof / doing industry work / currently looking?
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>>9050717
FIRST YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT HERE TO SHIT UP THIS THREAD FUCK THE RULES
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Let's get the party started
http://www.strawpoll.me/13489268
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>>9050736
>http://www.strawpoll.me/13489268
GOOD IDEA

>>9050730

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>space travel peaked 38 years ago

what went so horribly, horribly wrong?
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>>9050185
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>>9050185
Americans have gotten progressively dumber
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No wonder people don't believe in moon landing, a this point it sounds like magic.

Hello, I am looking for all myriad mathematical releases. They used to make available math books and journals available via torrents. They had more than 20 releases. Can anybody share them all here with seeding? TIA
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>>>/wsr/
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>>>/t/
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>>9049966
>>>/Prison/

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Just how smart do you think you actually are, /sci/?
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pretty brainlet

i'm like a guy that benches 2pl8. if you're untrained or a normie you'd think i'm a god but if you're in the field you'd realize i'm mid tier at best.
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People think I'm smart because I know a lot of trivia and have a decent analytical mind.
I think I'm average.
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>>9045395
About average, but harder working.

New stupid questions thread.

Can someone explain why
[math] \cap_{a\in J} A_a\ \not\subseteq\ \cap_{a\in I} A_a\quad\textrm{where}\quad J\neq \varnothing,\ J\subseteq I[/math]
An example would be helpful.
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is this an example?

A_1={a,b}
A_2={b,c}
A_3={c,d}
I={1,2,3}
J={1,2}

then left hand side is {b}
right hand side is empty
so no inclusion
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>>9039062
thanks, I was just being dumb
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>>9039057

>>9039062


So as soon as you add another set to your indeces, you introduce the possibility of it being disjoint with one of the others?

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What was this board's consensus on free will again? I forgot.
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NEETs are responsible for their failures.
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>>9036466
ask the big bang
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>>9036474
NO
MY ATOMS WERE WIRED IN THAT DIRECTION
I HAD NO FREE WILL

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im tryng to learn math and am currently on khan academy, what comes after that? after you've finished that program, do you move on to text books or what? and if so what kind?
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You're supposed to practice what you learned until your brain is highly capable to solve any problems without even thinking. Ever played an instrument?
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Well, I've been there. My high school had foreign languages profile so I didn't know much maths(had excellent grades tho). In my seniour year I found out about 'real mathematics' which focused on proofs and abstract ideas. Like you , at some point I was studying on khan academy but found the material there to be for noobs, it wasn't the abstract mathematics without any examples I was looking for. So I just switched up directly to graduate(or seniour undergraduate) textbooks(most of them just requre math maturity which I eventually gained). My major is software engineering(which is even a worse meme than CS) and I don't have much maths over here. Fortunatelly, textbooks really help. I suppose most people have to study material outside the classes anyway
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>>9059985
>im tryng to learn math and am currently on khan academy
You have been memed.

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Hi there /sci!
First of all, I am an idiot who's really bad at math so I hope you don't flame me for this.

On one side I roll a twenty sided die and want to get a certain outcome, say a 12, or higher.
On the other I have a quantity of six sided dice and want to have at least a certain number, say five, or more 5's or better.

Now, what would increase the probability of succes by a greater increment: lowering the target number on the d20 or increasing the quantity d6's?

I am a Roleplayer and always feel like just increasing the number or dice I roll doesn't really help me out as much as raising the margin for success.

Thanks in advance!
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>>9059676
What. Are you asking us how to load your dice?
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>>9059680
No. I just want a scientific explanation for the increasing probability with a higher number of dice.
Is it not an illusion that getting a 6 becomes more probable? The probability of rolling a 6 stays the same for every single die I roll doesn't it?
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>>9059688
Some numbers are more probable. Write down all the possible ways you can get each number from 2 (minimum possible) to 26 (maximum possible) with your dice and divide it by all the possible ways you can get some combinations.

For example, you can get 6 from a 1 and a 5 or a 5 and a 1, a 3 and a 3, a 4 and 2 and a 2 and 4. Which gives you the probability for getting a 6 with a d6 and a d20 as [math] 1/24 [/math].

If enough of us set up ground source heat pumps, could we solidify the earth's core sufficiently to destroy the magnetic field?

Asking for a friend.
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>>9059599
no. You could run all the present and future energy needs of human civilization off of the heat from the core until the sun goes supernova and never make a dent in the temperature.
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>>9059609
Then why aren't we?

All the low grade heat could easily be used for heating - maybe not electricity generation, but heating at least.

Calcs?
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>>9059630
>Then why aren't we?
trillions in infrastructure costs to build the power generation stations. And since, once constructed, the only cost is maintenance there is very little justification for the profits energy companies are accustomed to. Also the oil industry is not eager to undermine their existing, highly profitable, traditional fossil fuel institutions.

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Hello fags. High school brainlet here. Give me some books from Algebra up to Calculus and some books that'll help me prepare for IMO.

Thanks.
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I don't think your old enough for that meme kiddo. Nor this site.
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>>9059205
Just completely design and built your own drone. When you get stuck, find answers and do research. When you are done, you know all the math you need.
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Calculus ---> Principles Of Mathematical Analysis (Walter Rudin)

Algebra ---> Algebra (Michael Artin)

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If height correlates with intelligence like so many studies say, why is it that the highest IQ nations in the world have very short people?
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because correlation != causation
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>>9059055
I have never come across any article that say height correlates with intelligence. Skin tone is a better indicator.
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>>9059055
Because height is only one (alleged) correlation. If there are other factors involved their effects might dominate one correlation.

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Why is there so much matter and no antimatter?
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is it because infinity is not symmetric about the origin?
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Originally the Universe had literally a fucking billion times more matter than it orignally does. In the Big Bang 99.9999999% of all matter was destroyed by anti-matter. What exists today is the 0.00000001% that wasn't.
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>>9058561
What I mean to say is there "once upon a time" there was as much matter as anti-matter, but it was all annihilated by normal matter since everything was so compact and dense in the very beginning.

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What are your thoughts on this? Do we NEED language to think?
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Most animals seem to dream, so clearly they re capable of mental simulations probably perceived in a visualized rather than language based manner. No reason their minds arent doing that conatantly during waking hours either.
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>>9058271

I'm not sure how that could make sense. How do you develop language if you cannot think? Obviously people were thinking things, and this led to them creating a way of expressing them in a permanent, transferrable way. Seems like it probably started to satisfy needs of trade and accounting.
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No but I need language to remind you that you are a fucking faggot.

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How did something like this evolve?
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very carefully
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is that how poop is formed?
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>>9058216
t. brainlet

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So. Was it a fake?

Why did it suddenly disappeared?
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>>9058146
Yes it's fake, and it didn't disappear, it's just old news to the dumb popsci media that popularized it in the first place.
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prolly made the science men feel like suckers for testing it
Only the "inventor" and brainlets were sure it was real, but science men tested it anyway when they usually ignore shit like this.
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Tell me /sci/. Will there ever be a non-meme warpdrive?

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