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Everyone on /sci/ likes to recommend proto-analysis books like Spivak and Apostol as beginner texts, or Stewart for brainlets. On rare occassions, Simmons gets a mention.

Why no love for Larson or Larson/Edwards? Where does his book rank in terms of rigor, clarity, exercises, etc.?

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Sometimes people you wouldn't suspect are scientists.

Here's a bodybuilder who at first glance looks like a douchebag meathead, but he is also a PhD physicist. People like Rich Piana fascinate me. They have the best of both worlds.

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>see Stacey that I haven't seen in a long time
>tfw start flirting with her
>tfw tell her haircut looks in good
>tfw that was in a crowded elevator
>tfw idk if flattered but says thank you
>tfw get off the elevator
>"bye nice to see each other"
>tfw cried because had a 3 min convo with Stacey
>in calculus class
>tears on my face
>no one sees
>few hours later
>see Stacey again she sits with me at front of school
>start telling her all the derivatives I have memorized
>she's amazed
>ask her for her number on Facebook few days later.jpeg
>never hear back
>at least she likes some of my statuses

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I'm looking for a science themed youtube channel that I forgot. The creator has a strong Rhotacism speech impediment. Anyone know it?

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rNicc80Lalo

Would it work, /sci/?

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How important is undergraduate research compared to grades?

I fluctuate around a 3.0 GPA (got lazy in my first two years), but I've been the sole author of two papers in molecular biology, one on mathematics and a co-author in another paper on genomics (I was lucky enough to get into a lab because I'm one of the few biotech majors in the Dept. of Bio. at my university)

How would grad programs see a mediocre GPA paired with healthy undergrad research credentials?

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How many cucj it take to fuck a cuccl?

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Why is cat shit and piss the worst smell on Earth? It is FUCKING disgusting. I hate it more than anything.

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I'm currently helping a professor research something in Linear Algebra involving multiplying a bunch of matrices together and seeing how order influences the LU decomposition of the product, however, there are lots of different ways to multiply these matrices together, and there are only a few good orderings, IE, ones that produce purely polynomial entries in the L and U parts.

I want to be able to have a program create these matrices and try all of these orderings and have them determine if the ordering is good or not. The way I can check if the ordering is good or not is if the entry contains a "/", is there any way for me to write a java program or in some other language that allows me to put variables in a matrix, I want to be able to have the program look through the entries and tell me an ordering is bad if say, it looks like this: (abc)/(1+ab), but good if it looked like: a^2(bc+da)+3abcd

Can anyone help?

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how will /sci/ ever recover?

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Colloidal silver.

Is this just a meme. Or has there been any proven science behind it?

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Science has just proven that the universe is destined to repeat itself for an infinite number of iterations. Where were you when you realized your entire NEET life was doomed to repeat itself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=70&v=fJqpNudIss4

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So, next year I will be attending university and studying at said university's College of Engineering.

As part of my admission as a first year engineering student, I must read, before the start of the fall semester, a novel that each year the school picks as a "common read" for its freshman class.

The novel for my class is : "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks".

Now if you are interested in seeing what the book is about, read the Wiki entry on it, and if you want to read it yourself order it on Amazon, but the reason I made this thread is this :

> How and why is this book appropriate for a freshman first-year engineering student.

When I first looked into the book, I thought to myself, "Okay, it's going to be an anecdotal education on ethics in relation to science, in the context of medicine."

However, when I started reading the book, it felt more like a biography with injections of medical jargon and a subtle political argument on race and class.

To me, this is a book that feels more appropriate to a history college or medical college than an engineering college, and the sense of racial and class commentary that is seemingly ingrained in all of the prose of the pages brings a suggestively political atmosphere that I will not have in any engineering clique.

From there, I ask any Anons who have read this book :

> What did you think about it?
> Do you think it's appropriate for an engineering class?
> Any thoughts on the story or persons involved?

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Whats this?

Black hole? Planet?