>13 years of my brain's most plastic years wasted on glorified daycare (public schools)
>parents never encouraged me to do anything either, just sparked any interest for STEM and studying in general at 20 years of age
As I need to wageslave, I've only ~ 5 hours a day to study plus the whole weekend.Am I recoverable. /sci/?
If you need to ask, then no
>>9158767
Yes.
Now get to studying.
At any age really.
What you need to figure out is whether this is how you want to spend your time.
Mathematical art
Do any of you know any artists who specialize in mathematics? Math is beautiful, it is very aesthetic.
>The symbols used to represent equations and theorems are aesthetic.
>The diagrams and labeling systems used in mathematics are aesthetic.
Mathematics is basically the most aesthetic thing in existence even though the common plebeians find it scary. I would love a giant painting on my wall containing diagrams and labels with no English language, depicting some of the deepest and most important fundamental theorems of our time, for instance maybe the relationship between calculus and infinite series, the concept of topological isomorphism, things like this. It would be so aesthetic
And I don't mean art inspired by mathematics, I mean art which is essentially a visual proof or explanation of a mathematical concept. This is both useful and aesthetically pleasing.
For instance if I met new girl and had her over, the first thing I would show her would be my painting showing the relationship between the entropy of information theory and the entropy of thermodynamics. She would be really impressed that I have such highly aesthetic tastes in art and no doubt she would be gushing
Maybe I will make some of this art
>Mathematics is basically the most aesthetic thing in existence
thats a nice opinion
Meet Fomenko.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Fomenko
Gallery: http://imgur.com/r/math/vJX89
pic related is A space with nontrivial local homology [1967]
irrelevant but interesting:
Fomenko is a supporter of drastically revising historical chronology. He has created his own revision called New Chronology, based on statistical correlations, dating of zodiacs, and by examining the mathematics and astronomy involved in chronology. Fomenko claims that he has discovered that many historical events do not correspond mathematically with the dates they are supposed to have occurred on. He asserts from this that all of ancient history (including the history of Greece, Rome, and Egypt) is just a reflection of events that occurred in the Middle Ages and that all of Chinese and Arab history are fabrications of 17th and 18th century Jesuits.
He also claims that Jesus lived in the 12th century A.D. and was crucified on Joshua's Hill; that the Trojan War and the Crusades were the same historical event; and that Genghis Khan and the Mongols were actually Russians. As well as disputing written chronologies, Fomenko also disputes more objective dating techniques such as dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating (see here for an examination of the latter criticism). His books include Empirico-statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and Its Applications and History: Fiction or Science?.
>>9158650
His textbooks are also filled with his drawings, 'Homotopical Topology' with Fuchs is great to browse through
pic related
>Spectral sequences and orbits of the action of groups [1967]
If you can't effortlessly multiply any 2 digit numbers together in your head, why do you even bother studying math or science topics?
>normies actually believe this
>>9158563
>22 × 43 = 66
pretty sure this is not how you do double digit multiplication
>>9158575
That's the first step, 22*3
Do sci believes there could be some advanced civilization 12-15k years ago?
Not going to do /x/ BS.
I want a serious debate.
It seems there's enough evidence that there was some advanced human civilization 12k years ago, maybe more advanced than our civilization that got destroyed in some nuclear warfare or ancient flood.
So far the evidence is that:
>Ancient myths around the world about some garden of eden
>Piramids around the world seem to be aligned to constelations that were at those point on the sky 12k years ago
>Underwater cities on coastal lines
>Human fosil records of that era
>OOPARTS
>ancient maps that show entire regions that were over water 12k years ago
>entire ruins in india that has unusual radiation, similar to a nuke site
>glass sand in several locations of earth
So far the evidence indicates that there was some ancient human civilization that got wiped out in nuclear warfare.
You forgot about the top half of the statue of liberty they found on the beach, you know, next to the talking ape civilization we found
>>9158446
>[citations]
I really doubt your ``evidence'' exists.
>>9158457
http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/desert-glass-formed-ancient-atomic-bombs-002205
can't explain that
>>9158387
or this
>>9158387
>>9158389
And especially not this
Snake
Is there a science that deals objectively with law, morals and politics?
Also, I said a SCIENCE, as in, it uses the scientific method.
[math]\bf Abstract:[/math] No.
>>9158369
No. Can you even begin to imagine how one could empirically test law, morals, or politics using the scientific method?
>>9158369
what does that even mean?
there's moral psychology, which uses experiments, statistical methods, and neuroscientific information. does that count as "using the scientific method" to "deal with morals"?
there are of course several sciences that investigate different areas of law and politics.
but if by "using the scientific method to deal with morals" you mean using some stereotypical experimental-quantitative method to settle basic questions about the nature of moral entities such as right/wrong, good/evil, virtue/vice, then no, probably nobody thinks that's possible.
but equally, there exists no science like that when it comes to physics or chemistry or biology either, because they can't use experiments and quantification to determine basic facts about their subject areas such as whether the physical world exists, what the essential nature of the physical is, what an object or a property or an event is, what it is for something to be extended in space or exist over time, what it is for something to be a whole composed of various parts, what life essentially is, what different categories of beings are and how they relate to individuals, etc.
all of the neo-positivist's favorite sciences either ignore basic questions like that or take certain answers for granted in order to get on to the questions that their favorite methods might be able to answer.
so what do you mean by your question? because depending on what you mean, the answer is either "yes" or "no, just like there's no such science that deals with the physical world or anything else either"
I have free time and i want to improve my LaTeX skill, is there a book that has not been digitized?
Old books that are still relevants today preferably. Any idea ? I want to help science even if i'm a student brainlet.
>>9158310
There are multiple online databases of information. Look for them. The best thing to do is get a research paper and try to translate it to latex on your own.
Just because a book has been uploaded to the internet as a series of scans, and thus been "digitized" in a definite sense, or even packaged as .pdf(s), does not mean the book has been punched up as a series of TeX files.
You could really pick anything. As an extreme and irrelevant example (against your point), I don't think Principia Mathematica has ever been tex'd by anyone, which might actually improve its readability somewhat (the notation is notoriously ugly).
>>9158322
>Principia Mathematica
What a useless piece of shit of a book.
Pick something people would use OP.
Anyone here taking any kind of nootropics? What are you taking and why?
I'm on modafinil. I feel pretty wired after 200mg. There has been some discussion about modafinil's effects depending on your Rs4680 SNP. I have A/A, so I'm supposed to not feel modafinil as well as A/G or G/G, some say I shouldn't feel it at all.
>>9158301
>I feel pretty wired after 200mg
Does it make you wired in a good way?
>>9158305
It kind of feels "light." I am more focused on tasks and it's harder for me to get distracted. It's a very unique feeling of being awake. Completing tasks feels great.
It's definitely a good kind of wired.
Only Modafinil, reduces my sleep cycles and improve my concentration. Just that.
Nothing like stone cold facts to be one back to reality.
Had my hopes up for an ideal situation.
Post why you love sci & math
>in b4 expectation is the root of all heartache
>>9158275
What does that picture mean? Why is that big green circle in the middle connected to everything else?
>>9158286
The green circle is a gene. The gene encodes for all of those proteins. important because cancer. that gene controls a lot of functions....
>>9158288
>important because cancer
Well it's doing a pretty shit job because people are getting cancer all the time.
Anyone remembers the not so subtle news about metallic hydrogen being created at harvard a few months ago ?
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/01/a-breakthrough-in-high-pressure-physics/
but then they ''lost it''
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/controversial-metallic-hydrogen-claim-under-new-scrutiny-/2500534.article
Was it just a dream ? Or are we that close to solving a shit ton of our (energy) problems ? Eng, faggot here, not that good in physics to know how feasible it really is. If it's real though it would have 4X the specific impulse of the best current rocket fuel and be a room temp superconductor...
>>9158058
>and be a room temp superconductor...
We don't even know if it's metastable. It probably isn't.
And producing it, even in these tiny as fuck quantities seems like a real hassle.
So I wouldn't hold my breath for it to revolutionize rocket fuel or superconductors.
read the paper for it, even if it wasnt a hoax, theyve lost the samples from the equipment breaking, so they either have to do it again or fade into obscurity
>>9158058
Boy I'll sure tell you what I don't remember, is 30 years ago, because I was born in 1989 and that means I wasn't alive to witness anything that happened before such a point.
I do remember my first ball game at age 2.5 with my good 'ol pops. I remember around that same time my cousin clawing my back, leaving scars that stayed noticeable until I was about 10. I remember my dear sweet mother teaching me to read and count and do basic math around ~3yrs before popping me into pre-school. I remember my sister teaching me all the tricks to Super Mario Bros. 3 (and always being worse than her at most non-academic stuff until I hit puberty)
I remember Kindergarten work being so damn simple there was no thought to it. I remember the first dead thing I ever saw, when in the early morning my cat killed a big fat rabbit and left it on our driveway, nice hole tore in the stomach, as I walked out to wait for the bus. I remember thinking "Religion sounds pretty dumb if we all believe the same stuff but everyone says the "other side" is wrong" around 6 years old. I also remember my parents fighting all the time, well, all the time for a young child whom has intermittent bursts of what a mature person would call cognizance, before they divorced.
So yes, OP, I remember the short time wasting blurb about how metallic hydrogen was a hoax a few months ago.
What you should remember is to never use that phrase for things that happened recently.
>tl;dr
>OP is a faggot
This is what you see as a highschooler when doing math, the ladder is however slippery and it's easy to fall, also there's a teacher telling you to memorize everything and shakes the ladder so you can fall easily
There's no such thing as "quantum algebra". It's just bunch of complex numbers in Hilbert space. Also, abstract algebra is pretty basic stuff, it's on par with first linear algebra courses.
>>9158029
>also there's a teacher telling you to memorize everything and shakes the ladder so you can fall easily
He's trying to rescue you from a lifetime of isolated geek misery.
How do I become a mathematical super genius, /sci/? I want to know all the advanced math.
Is race real, /sci/?
>>9158013
Either race is real or forensic science isn't, and I don't think you'll find many arguments disputing the existence of forensic science.
Yes. Different races because different traits, traditions, DNA, etc.
Don't they eat albinos in africa?
How long would it take a decent programmer to code a seven-stage, two-choice discrimination version of a neuropsychological card sorting game.
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Depends on your requirements. Surely you want some primitive user interface at aleast. I think I could make the core logic work in 2-3 hours (internal representation of the cars + when is a choosen card the right one) and the 5-6 hours for putting it together with the GUI, fixing some bugs, making a releasable.
That is just out of my ass, requirements are to important. I.e. stuff changes when you want it to be usable via a website etc.
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Reminder that science is also based on faith. Due to the vastness of collective human knowledge, our short lifespans, our weak brains, and our needs for survival, it's impossible for any one person to know everything. Even the smartest person alive will eventually need to defer to an expert. When you defer to an expert, you're making a leap of a faith. The faith being your belief that the person knows what he's talking about. In short, when a physicist wants to know about biology, he defers to a biologist on the basis of faith.
>>9157841
Yes but you always have the option of reading his/her paper and evaluating their evidence which is what other scientists do.
The difference between science and faith is the accessibility of evidence.
>it's impossible for any one person to know everything.
It [math]\textit{is}[/math] possible to know everything, and actually quite easy as well. All you need to do is to [math]\textit{decide}[/math] that you know everything. After all, you're always the one who determines what the truth is in the end.
>>9157851
>Yes but you always have the option of reading his/her paper and evaluating their evidence which is what other scientists do.
It's impossible for you to be able to evaluate every paper critically because you will eventually lack the foundation of knowledge to do so, as you stray further and further from your speciality. There's only so much knowledge you can acquire before the tank is filled up due to biological constraints. You can't expect a physicist to read a zoology paper and be able to understand it at a critical level. Eventually you have to accept knowledge based on faith.
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Look at those assholes making tons of money and having degrees on the side. /sci/ is nothing. NOTHING compared to them.
WE'RE POOR AND STUDYING FOR NO REASON. WE CAN'T EVEN MAKE MONEY
All we're studying is theoretical pure garbage.
what do you think witten's net worth is?
>>9157783
IQ =/= making money
Being a money maker just means you are a high order asshole who takes advantage of other people's kindness, insecurities, or disadvantages to gain shallow wealth.
>>9157800
They're already got degrees at 21 years old they're making tons of money I'm making nothing.
They've got internships and other bullshit that looks good on their resume and my resume is empty. At this rate my degree is useless.