First year computer engineering student.
What should I expect /sci/?
Unexpected difficulty, misplaced optimism, and a lot of work.
But don't give up. It's worth it.
I graduated with a BSE in computer engineering back in 2008. I now make a great salary from a job I enjoy. I love it!
>On? Or off?
>>8845990
Location, job title, salary?
What is it like to be a social scientist ?
Im studying communication science and as most students I thought I wanted to work in journalism/marketing/something like that.
But there is this Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences' professor who asked me if I ever thought about doing research (because im le class' smart kid). Obviously I never did, I thought I would probably end up writing for a shitty online newspaper or working at McDonalds.
I would probably end up doing paper work to start but I think it would be a good experience even if I totally fail at it.
Most students dont like him because they say he is too strict (and most of them dont give a fuck about methodology because they just want to be journalists) but he is a really cool dude and also very respectable (he's a sociologyst, he has a PhD, hes written many books, he sometimes appears on tv, he is not a sjw, his cv is like 10/10).
>pls dont make this a meme thread quantitative sociology is the less memeish social science desu
also my professor doesnt know i like animu waifus desu
desu bump
>>8845886
From what I gather from my one friend doing his PhD in sociology (at top program too)
>begging for funding some silly research idea that will never actually contribute anything
>collecting survey data and doing stats
ITT: GIFs that explain mathematical concepts. These always seem to be super satisfying to watch.
>>8845521
How did lamb evoluve!
>>8844296
trial and error
>>8845843
and who exactly is doing this "trying" and what are they trying to achieve? and who defines error? why do people keep thinking the universe "cares" about "life" as if it's somehow more important than a rock?
>>8846560
>and who exactly is doing this "trying" and what are they trying to achieve
This is a SFW board, fuck off
I've been doing some thinking and i'm wondering what you guys think of this
Pro
>high output
>clean, non-polluting
>no greenhouse gases
>produce more than they consume
>could use other sources besides uranium
Cons
>bigass power plants
>difficult to store
>if the plants are damaged they could really fuck things up
>>8843961
>clean, non-polluting
until something fucks up.
human error can never be fully ruled out.
we should try to get rid of all nuclear power plants because another Chernobyl/Fukushima is inevitable.
No distaster can be called 'the last' if there are still plants active.
>>8843961
>if the plants are damaged they could really fuck things up
Literally a meme.
Do you agree with the march for science?
no
I dont even know what it is
>>8840688
they're the SJWs of science
Sorry /sci/, but it looks like the new Einstein has already been found. Maybe you can try again in the next life, eh?
shouldn't that say 'the next Witten'?
>>8839557
>a girl
AHahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha
>>8839557
Woah did she create those things on the board behind her?
Colony Requirements:
1: Must be self-sustaining after being initially setup.
2: Must have healthy children born in the colony for more than 5 generations without technological or genetic augmentations.
These requirements are extremely steep for starting an off-Earth colony within our solar system. #1 requires a very balanced, closed loop ecosystem, which is difficult to do. #2 is very difficult just because of gravity restraints.
After seeing the screenshot image (blue sections of this image) I decided to do some research into what celestial bodies might be viable for colonization (white section of this image). It seems that no planets, asteroids, or moons can have a colony on their surface, yet floating cities on Venus and the gas giants (except Jupiter) is viable. However, many moons and asteroids can be converted into O'Neil Cylinders.
This takes for granted that we could build a floating city at 100kPa level on the gas giants and Venus as well as being able to build O'Neil Cylinders out of moons/asteroids and get the moon/asteroid to spin at 1g without flying apart. Getting them to spin at the right speed for 1g is the biggest hurdle.
Building O'Neil Cylinders that orbit the sun would be fairly easy, just costly. Those are at least well within our technological realm right now without much hand waving, magic, or "special material we almost have out of the lab".
>>8794323
what about on earth colonies in the middle of the ocean
>>8794365
Didn't go well for China
I know it's a bad example, since these weren't intended to be self-sufficient
But a nation extending its sphere of influence will alwais cause international friction. Unless it's some bullshit tourist attraction like the Palm island.
What's the fucking point in taylor polynomials?
useful approximations
>>8850919
some equations can't be solved, like integrating a bell curve for example
make students ask questions
Could anyone please post the definitive ultimate NON-TROLL list to learn Math, from pre-grades to undergrades?
the truth is that there's no 'ultimate list'
there's books that work best for different people with different goals, and you're usually better off with more than one book for a given subject
find what works for you
>>8850546
>blao
No.
Anyone, please?
>>8850560
>>blao
Hi Guys, i'm mostly a /fit/ poster. We deal with a lot of bs science from nutrition peoples, fatties, etc. They change everything all around every year. So I was thinking about all this "march for science" stuff.
How do you tell which science is real, like you can build bridges with it, and which science is mostly about female spirits inhabiting 40 year old trannies? They both come from universities and they are all peer reviewed and such. But there seems to be a big difference between a bridge and a female spirit inside of buffallo bill lol.
>>8850443
fun fact: nobody in that march had PhDs and no modern scientist attended to that march.
that should give you an idea about liberal """science"""
all science is either physics or stamp collecting
>>8850480
go away kaku
Why did the majority of scientific breakthroughs that we take for granted today come from rich Lords who had too much time in their hands?
Even quantim mechanics and relativity were developed by rich aristocrats who literally shut themselves in their room for years until they finally cracked it.
because they had the NEET freedom that no wageslave will ever have.
>>8850158
There was a time in the past when only rich people (the gentry) went to school. In the UK education up to age 12 only became mandatory in 1870, after 12 you had to pay, which put it out of the reach of most people.
>>8850164
Education is overrated. Even with all the knowledge we have today there people who still believe in bullshit like the memedrive and flat earth.
whats the easiest way to find value of
8 * 8
7 * 8
7 * 7
without memorizing
>>8849840
common core?
(10-2)*8
(5+2)*8
(5+2)*7
>>8849840
did you memorize how to speak your mother tongue? No, you just grew up hearing it and knowing how it feels to speak it.
You just had to learn how 8*8 feels like 64, 7*8 feels like 56, 7*7 feels like 49.
>without memorizing
Don't talk stupid.
Memorise the square numbers.
7x8=8x8-8
>>8849844
Otherwise this.
But seriously just learn the squares.
Do vaccines cause autism?
No.
Yes it does. It has been proven countless of times, by many scientists.
>>8849655
Fuck you cuck
>>8849644
There are literally hundreds of different causes for autism.
Often in tv and movies you hear "if there's infinite universes then there must be a universe where [blah blah]"
But surely this is only true if the set of infinite universes is the same or greater cardinality than the set of outcomes that the character is talking about.
For example imagine if I sample uniformly at random from the interval [0,1] countable infinite times.
What is the probability that at least one of those results is 0.3 exactly?
I'm pretty sure it isn't one , because there are countable infinite samples but uncountably infinite numbers in that interval.
Am I wrong?
>>8849117
Is there an universe where that qt sits on my face over and over till I cum?
>>8849117
no you're not wrong. a related example is that there are infinitely many digits in the decimal expansion of 1/3, but no digit equal to 2.
>>8849117
Infinity is unnecessary; you can get a counterexample from pure logic alone.
Even if there are infinite universes, there can be no universe where the law of modus ponens (if A and A->B, then B) fails