Is it worth learning matlab as an engineer (mech eng for me)? Or should I focus my efforts on other languages/software...
Matlab will be one of the most useful languages for you.
>>8942757
Yeah, being an engineer and not knowing matlab is like a mute trying not knowing sign language or a retard not knowing how to scream and casually molest people.
>>8942703
They're memeing you, only EEs use Matlab. Most employers are too cheap to pay for Matlab licenses, and will just tell you to use Excel or Python or something
>smell coffee
>feel like shitting
Can science explain this? I know caffeine is diuretic but this is before the coffee is ingested.
>>8942634
You're used to shitting after drinking coffee, so your body knows it's about time to shit when you smell it.
It's more of a mental thing than anything else.
>tfw i drink 2 mugs of coffee in a week to stay regular
I have my poop timing down to a science. If it is 6:30EDT then you know I'm home pooping.
>>8942655
This.
I drink 2-4 cups of coffee a day. Is this detrimental to my dookies?
So there I was, just minding my own business...
>>8942508
Then all of the sudden, I'm buried under a couple miles of lava.
So I was like, "Whatever. Lava sucks but it's not the end of the world."
Then along comes this asshole 'Al Gorgonopsian" talking about "carbon dioxide" and "methane hydrates" and this and that, and that's when things started getting weird.
A friend sent me this, and I have no idea what's going on with it.
What's the next term in the sequence?
>Inb4 homework b8
>>8942503
32, 34
>>8942522
What's the logic?
'Feels like it's true' isn't good enough, btw
>>8942533
It goes +y +x +0 +x in a sequence
Y-2 x-4 for next step
This is the AF's new spaceplane, the XS-1 Phantom Express by Boeing. It's about the size of a 737 and can put a 3,000 lbs payload (one American) into orbit.
>>8942199
a computer rendering can put stuff into orbit.
>>8942268
Thats how advanced Boeing is you stupid SpaceX shill
>>8942199
>a 3,000 lbs payload (one American)
Equivalent to two europeans btw.
Hello someone can help me solve this integral, I get the result, but I can not do it by the methods I know and nobody I know can do, in another forum could not solve it and in the books I have not found a method to solve it. Thank you <3 <3
well you can pull the 0.5 out
>>8942146
Let me go try it. I'll see if I can get you an answer.
>>8942146
there's website called integral calculator which shows al steps. google it
One of my buddies who recently was discharged from the military just became a vegan. Despite all the 'oh the poor animals' bullshit he queefs all over facebook, he does make some good points about health and wellness. And he never neglects to back up his assertions with sources. SO what does /sci/ think about veganism?
I've been doing some research myself but this kind of thing is not my forte. I'm more of a historyfag, and I can't come to any conclusions that I'm willing to trust myself on.
I wasn't sure where else to post this, and I don't think /fit/ would be much help. So, can you guys help me achieve enlightenment on the matter?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism#Health_effects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegan_nutrition
If wellness is buying all the Quinoa from South American countries. So they starve while some middle class moms have something to feel good about then I'm all for vegan wellness I guess.
>>8941821
from a "muh animals" standpoint, its bupkiss. more animals are killed in harvesting machinery and by the act of planting than in slaughter houses by an order of magnitude. economically viable agriculture is intrinsically disruptive to the ecosystem.
from a health standpoint he is right-ish. western society does eat way more animal products than are necessary for proper nutrition. cutting it out of your diet will generally help you out.
I can't think of any reason since all it does is make you hopeless/depressed and that is probably a survival hazard.
I can only imagine there's no point for the brain allowing them to happen if there's nothing to act on.
I understand that it might enable long term planning for advanced societies but wouldn't those societies also realize trying is ultimately pointless? Unless there ultimately is a way to permanently secure existence.
But even then, why would the phenomenon show up in lower organisms?
>>8941691
an existential crisis is not neccessarily something one would evlove to have more of a byproduct of an advanced brain capable of recognizing its enviroment
You seem to be implicitly assuming that we evolved to feel existential crises. I'd imagine that in fact they're simple a side-effect of increased intelligence. You'd probably find that humans of low intelligence don't even experience existential crises.
>why didn't evolution plan for 200,000 years in the future when free time is so available that we can sit around crying about death
gee I don't fucking know retard
What are your opinions on GMOs? I think we can agree that they aren't poisonous (as approved by FDA) or harmful to the environment (any more than traditional farming). Will they provide the world with more food per area farmed or faster strip resources to provide less over the long term? Will they be more susceptible to disease as monocultures, or will GM techniques keep them always a step ahead? Please, detailed feedback only. I won't read single sentence replies.
>>8941589
Boycott them for the time being. Food and genes shouldn't be patentable.
>>8941594
>Food and genes shouldn't be patentable.
You're a stupid commie niggerfaggot.
>>8941589
It's all fine while you're just making veggies more nutritious and more resilient
it stops being fun when you purposefully make them infertile and jew people out of money annually for more seeds, like Monsato does
I'm sure most of us share a similar story, it just ends at different points:
>appear mildly gifted as a child
>gradually, throughout elementary/middle/high school you build a reputation for being "the smart guy" and it becomes part of your identity
>get accepted to a rigorous degree (math/physics/engineering) at a prestigious uni
>get smacked in the face the first or second semester
>recover to various degrees (a few people go on well beyond PhD's and become great intellectuals, some people call it quits after the PhD, some people are content with their master's and some people are happy just to get through a bachelors)
My point is, everyone has a ceiling, and statistically speaking most people here probably aren't going to be the next Einstein, Newton or Boltzmann. So my question is, when did you realize where your intellectual ceiling was? And how did you deal with it? Or haven't you realized yet? In that case, how far do you think you can go?
>>8941356
for those interested here's my story
Personally I always wanted to become a physicist and to come up with all kinds of new theories and breakthrough ideas (my big one was wanting to figure out how to travel "faster than light"), but as I've gotten to my senior year in physics at a very respectable school I realize that I'm just not cut out to be one of the best, not even close (I'm at somewhere between 130-140 IQ). It may sound stupid that I ever even thought I was, but I guess that's what happen when you spend most of your life as a big fish in a small pond. Anyways, there are people in my class and people at better universities that run laps around me, and I have no way to compete with their superior intellect. So I've decided to not pursue graduate physics because I'd most likely just end up a slightly-above-mediocre scientist and I'm not interested in that, if I can't be the best I don't wanna do it. So I've decided go do graduate applied math and combine it with finance so that I can at least earn some money.
Anyways, I'd love to hear your stories.
>>8941370
Oh well that wasn't my point, I'm quitting physics because I'm not gonna be doing anything revolutionary in the field, and I don't want to be an "ok" or even "good" physicist. You may be content with that but I am not. I'm certainly cut out for physics, and you don't have to be a supergenius for it either.
If a male and female consume things that are
good for health and also for the improvement of the brain,and then they have sex, is the offspring going to be more intelligent and healthier?
There seems to be some truth to the idea where intelligens is heritable, where the east-asians scores the best I think. But the way you eat doesn´t effect your DNA so I doubt that part.
Now, to my dumb question, does anyone know the oxidation steps when
C2H4 -> CH20
I know its similar to the methane steps, but not sure how it goes when I´ve got two carbons..
Unless you can document that said things alter your DNA, no. If the mother eats said things during her pregnancy, then I could see there being an effect, but again, need documentation. Look it up.
>>8941203
I vaguely remember a study that suggested your baby would be good at things you were doing a lot of when they were conceived. Sort of related to what you're saying
Just graduated with a BSc in physics and starting an R&D job next week.
AMA
>>8940542
Why are you here and not on reddit?
>>8940542
do you think anyone gives a fuck?
>>8940582
Apparently you since you replied
Why do all the normies not want to live forever?
Their shroud of normietivity only lasts about 60-70 years and then they are powerless. Having to live even more years with no power is not in their best interests,
>>8939643
They are fucking idiots that dont realize they can self study cool shit like physics and math when they cant party, fuck, and flash their titties
Because it's bogeymanned in film and media as part of "things man aren't to mettle in"
I want to create a map on how different sciences and mathematics interrelate in order to learn as much as possible as effectively as possible (leaning concepts strongly in one field that will apply to others). Philosophy is included because progression should be made from old to new. Graph is incomplete and spotty, I haven't worked on it much.
Basic resources I've used:
yEd graph editor (would like to do books, the slip of paper looking thing, off to the side of the main path - any other editor that could do this or a setting for this one?)
Bertrand Russel book on philosophy
/sci/ wiki (not completely through)
A math guide I saw posted before
What I'm asking for is any references that would be helpful for filling this out, any previous knowledge tree things, or better graph software
Also would like opinions/suggestions.
>>8939428
Evertyhing is related to everything.
>>8939437
Right but I'm trying to figure out how some bits of everything are related to other bits of everything
Monitoring this.
I hadnt thought about this, there has to be some research on this
Why do people hate on corn syrup when it's both literally and unironically the same as refined sugar
>>8939077
sure, regular HFCS isn't much more harmful than crystal sugar aside where one comes in bags and boxes while the other comes in fucking everything and turns people into sickly fatfucks
>>8939077
>the same as refined sugar
it is not.
>>8939092
I too hate calories.