And post it please I want the picture. And let's bring something up finally, its about time. I'm making my reality so I'm making you lot, ask the particles yourself. Yet I read you lot are spose to be making your realities, well HA! Not in mine your not. What's the answer?
Stop bumming my shit. Stop stealing my shit. Start buying me shit. Start shouting me shit. Fuck the depo off! Fuck the contradictor off! Fuck the stopping off! Fuck the cops off! Quit not believing me. Quit beating me. Stop controlling me. Stop ruining me. Start doing good. Stop killing me. Stop ageing me! Stop taking. Give me little alien self's getting everything. Munch munch
Or I'm leaving. With my body, alive.
Kids, this is why you don't do dugs
>>8977867
What is why kids don't do drugs? I'm pretty sure kids actually do do drugs.
>Chemical engineering graduate
>Haven't been able to find a job for 6 months after graduation
I WANT THIS WILD RIDE TO END
>Mechanical Engineering PhD with 4.3 GPA
>Haven't been able to get a job for 10 years since finishing
I WANT THIS WILD RIDE TO END
>>8977830
sheeit, nvm
>>8977830
>lets look at your transcript
>The history of the African Engieneer A
>Asains engineering Theory !
>....
>lets take a look at your dissertation
>how one can make a sand castle with no sand
>we'll call you back
Well /sci/, I did it. I'm going to graduate school for mathematics in the fall. Feels surreal and not that exciting. Anyone else /mathgrad/ here? How is it working out?
Yep. I work at Sears now since pure math degrees are not in demand. I wished I took the engineering route.
>>8977767
As in shelf stocker or a white collar Sears worker ;_;
>>8977755
Not too bad all things considered. Make ok money, but corporate world can suck. My boss is a prick though. Luckily, he's moving back home with his mom so hopefully I will no longer be cleaning the broiler.
Why is this proof actually a thing? Clearly, multiplying s by x will create an x^(n+1) term at the end.
>inb4 brainlet
Yes I do know about infinite series, /sci/, and that infinity + 1 should still equal infinity. However, this is not equal to 1 + infinity, which is what's in this proof.
Clearly, x^(n+1) is incredibly large and can not just be neglected because "m-muh n is approaching infinity" (which the author didn't even explicitly say, kek).
Point is: If n is a finite number, which it acts like in this proof (the series has a final term), then this can't possibly hold.
Anyone else sometimes question the legitimacy of foundational maths sometimes and think that it's all wrong, and that mathematicians just work around difficult concepts like infinity to make the established model work right? I think there are too many plot holes like pic related. Reckon there could be a more TRUE maths that we just can't comprehend yet, or at all.
this only works for |x| < 1
im guessing either the pic youı posted is wrong, or x^n becomes so small that it doesn'T matter
>>8977716
It's authors privilege.
He could have let s = 1+x+...x^n-1
>>8977720
OP here. You're right, I didn't specify this was for convergent series. Thought it was obvious enough to not have to mention here, but yeah, if x^n is so small that it doesn't matter, then it is only a good approximation. And even then, if that's the case then by that logic you get inconsistent results if you try the sx^2 case, and so on..
> 1st year CS
> Kicked modules asses
Future CS looks either dull or like shit I can teach myself. Math has awesome modules.
I can switch to Mathematics easily next year or continue CS. I want to end up doing a postgrad something like computational Physics or at least something in Stem that isn't a hermetically sealed office with web developer asshats. Should I switch or stick given my future goals?
>>8977450
find something that makes you mad dosh, yo.
the rest is cake.
>>8977450
Only switch if you're OK with being broke but satisfied with your work.
>>8977450
Stick with CS unless you are literally retarded and believe /sci/ memes. CS is by far the most employable degree right now, pure math is pretty bad. If you are good at CS and can make it through all the schooling to do computational physics you can probably do it. You can't say the same for math.
If 10/10s breed with each other will their offspring also be 10/10s?
What factor determines whether the offspring will be a 10/10 or a 5/10?
>>8977415
>What factor determines whether the offspring will be a 10/10 or a 5/10?
genetic probability.
Just saying, gold diggers are nothing special, genetically speaking.
>>8977415
it hoestly depends on what traits you are expecting of your offspring....
Is finding a rich mate one of those traits?
>>8977454
>hoestly
I'm a very sedentary guy, I'm fit and eat well and have recently got into running and lifting, however over the past few years I have done nothing but be on my computer all day.
My forehead hurts, I get to the end off the day with a headache, could this be that I am looking down on my laptop so blood rushes to my frontal lobe? Or could it be something else? Could it be my brain deteriorating itself from lack off exercise and easy dopamine stimuli?
The rule of thumb on biological issues is you become increasingly prone to health problems the more you stray from the natural order. Sitting all day is unnatural and digital screens are very unnatural. (I'm not anyone to talk, I'm currently at work in front of a computer and I'll probably go home and watch chinese cartoons later)
But anyway, getting a headache is probably from focusing your eyes on the screen for so long. Make sure you blink at regular intervals, and close your eyes or look away from the screen for a minute every once in a while.
>>8977269
>I'm fit
>I'm fit
>I'm fit
yeah sure little kiddo, everyone and their uncle i know is "actually very fit" and can "do a lot of pushups"
show us a pic of the destroyed mess you call a body to confirm that you are in fact not fit
>>8977269
It's either headaches from eyestrain or tension type headaches being triggered from screen usage. Both can be helped by every 20 minutes going outside and looking at far away objects, atleast 20ft if not more, for a minute or so. The longer you spend without a break on the computer the more time you need to look far away to get relief.
I say outside mostly due to the fact it seems to work better for my eyestrain that looking at something far away inside. It could be the increased vitamin D production but that's pure speculation.
There are lots of scientists out there whose biggest intellectual accomplishment is speaking against God.
This is fucking sad. Think about it.
Personally I'm sick and tired of this fad. Guys like Lawrence Krauss study 20 years of hard science and then feel proud when they realize that hey, maybe religion can be used to brainwash simple people into obedience. They don't discover new particles, they don't develop any new science of any kind. They just preach atheism to retards and reap fame doing so.
It doesn't take a particle physicist to question God. IQ 70 people are doing it these days because atheism is the rising trend. I always cringe when I see Dawkinses strutting around the stage like peacocks feeling superior when they're telling a muslim that they need to update their world views.
It's like a boxing match between Mike Tyson and a crippled child.
Maybe new thinkers in the 21st century get edgy and start criticizing atheism and re-introduce the God hypothesis.
Questioning the status quo is a baby step on a thinker's path. Yet we have renowned scientists who never get further than this.
>>8977093
Look into Post-Modernism.
Science is already dead.
How to be edgy:
>20th century
>question religion
>21st century
>question atheism
>22nd century
>question previous questioning of atheism
and so on.
This is how collective thinking works. It's slow and never goes anywhere, it just oscillates between two extremes indefinitely.
Homosexuality was accepted in ancient Greece, then it was banned, now it's acceptable again. This is how it goes. Most people are idiots and can't make decisions of their own.
Scientists shouldn't even touch these subjects. They should make science.
>>8977100
Everything you said was wrong though. There was no such thing as homosexuality in greek times. It was not an identity.
Does a real number - say, r - such that [eqn]\forall n \in N:rx<1[/eqn] ?
Was thinking about it, since real numbers are a lot "smoother" than rationals, could there a number exist?
>>8977065
Does a real number exist*
sorry for my incompentence
No, real numbers are an Archimedean field.
You can do this with surreal numbers though.
What is [math]x[/math]? What is [math]N[/math]? If [math]x=n[/math] and [math]N = \mathbb{N}[/math], then yes, for instance [math] r = -1 [/math].
My mother really buys into the whole homeopathy/detox/energy medicine thing. What do I do?
Try not to be too condescending.
>fluid ounces
Top kek
>>8977063
It works, Idiot. My father got rid of his cancer by becoming vegan and detoxing.
How to solve limits like this
>>8977041
logically, using the power rule, it's 1
>>8977041
S(∞) doesn't make sense -- in particular it assumes that the limit exists and it may not. You could go definitional:
Let
[math] s = \mathrm{lim}_{n \rightarrow \infty} \sum f(n) [/math]
and then take S(n)/s -- with the explicit assumption that the limit exists.
Alternatively you can replace
S(n)/S(∞)
with a more concrete form like
S(n)/S(n^2)
or
S(n)/S(n!)
or even use a limit over n and m, and have
S(n)/S(n+m)
>>8977049
I would have written s(∞) in the correct limit form but im lazy. I am assuming that the limit does exist and im interested in why some functions for f(m) seem to make it approach some number or 0.
if I use 1/m! for f(m) it seems to go to 0 but if I use 1/m^2 it approaches some number near 0.608
>Feb 2015
>Be me, junior in HS
>Read a Nature paper about molecular biology from Reddit
>Wanna see where the work goes
>Hear nothing for nearly a year
>Jan 2016
>Get fed up with waiting, so I message the lead researcher directly
>He tells me all about the work and how it got funding for human trials and shit
>7 months pass
>Find out his institute has a research fellowship for undergrads
>interesting.jpg
>Email him, asking if he knows anything about it
>He tells me to email him in June of '17 and he can guarantee a position for summer '18
>Fuck yeah
>Wait 8 months
>Message him a week ago
>He replies
>"we can keep paid slot open for you in summer 2018. Now your job is to remind me around March 2018 to get the paperwork going. Looking forward to meeting such a persistent student"
mfw
>>8976965
>biology
>>8976965
you know what you've doomed your thread to be?
>>8976965
We don't care. No one here cares. You are not a special snowflake for doing some shitty lab bitchboy job for a researcher. The only emotion I feel towards you and your post are mild anger for having been lured into wasting my time reading it.
Leave, die, or do both, you literal underage b& ledditor trash. Saged.
I need to be in study mode, but I am stuck in space mode.
I have no concentration and dextroamphetamines aren't improving my focus.
How do I grind my mind into focus mode and are there any tricks to wake up my mind?
>>8976944
I have an exam tomorrow in Ochem.
Thanks for your help and have fun discussing politics instead of math and sci or talking to me or whatever.
Fucking bastards.
>>8976944
With willpower you faggot
>>8977018
Thank you for gifting me that information from your beautiful mind.
Anything else besides willpower. Do you clench your asshole, ice your balls, slap yourself in the face, or eat a nice meal?
>haveing a good old wank
>walking around while wanking
>step on a tack
>feel the pain in both my toe and my dick
this astonishes me
do any of you guys know why this happens?
Who fucking walks around while wanking?
>>8976866(dubs)
i was looking for my onahole
>>8976860
You should repeat your experiment to make your results reliable
So I was reading Euler's calculus textbook and in it he talks a lot about whether matter is infinitely divisible, or made up of indivisible atoms, and he talks about this as if it's a very important thing to consider before you get into calculus.
It's surprising because nobody talks about this type of stuff in modern math books. What gives? what's the difference between the way old-timers like Euler thought about math, and the way people today think about math?
>>8976739
Back in the days they actually cared about laying a consistent foundation. Nowadays they sweep it all under the rug for convenience.
>>8976739
The invention of alternative facts (which gave rise to the field of postmodern mathematics) in the early 20th century by Alfred Tarski, though the credit is typically awarded to the more well-known Godel (and occasionally Turing).
>>8976749
fuck off, mathematics up until it was formalised was literally random shit strung together, that worked well enough. Mathematics adheres to ZF Set Theory and is entirely consistent, it had to be formalised as it got more complex.