How did school fuck up people's interest in the beauty of math? Why do so many students avoid math? Even the high achieving students who got A in Calculus were not interested in pursing math.
There's no such thing as beauty in math. It's just a meme people use to get kids interested in math.
>>8829526
>How did school fuck up people's interest in the beauty of math?
75% of people don't give a shit about math beyond basic arithmetic and 97% don't care about university math unless it has immediate practical application. Don't blame schools for killing interest in math. The only things that elementary and high schools do wrong is making simple concepts complicated, but that's because the teachers are retarded cat ladies.
most people have no practical use of it in their lives, so they can't be bothered
also it is really boring
>mfw cs student and i fucking hate math. probably gonna fail
How can a projector project black on a white wall? Science can't explain that.
your brain sees regions of wall not reflecting light and their high contrast with the regions adjacent which are reflecting light and interprets them as black
They can't
>>8829295
holy shit this is actually insane
Does anyone have a working torrent for the texbooks in the sci wiki? The magnet link doesn't seem to be working
>>8829226
I have the complete collection (as it came).
>>8829247
Do you have a link famalam?
>>8829269
I'd need to try and dig out the right archive, then export and upload it. Sound good?
I got my follow up letter from Princeton: They are begging me to go there
>>8829154
Then go there? You don't have to wave your dick around. Here's mine.
>>8829154
I would call BS, but I know Princeton actually sends those. Congrats.
>>8829154
Why don't you just put the image into paint and put black boxes over your name instead of showing everyone your tiny man hands?
Redpill me on metric vs imperial measurements? Which one is objectively superior?
Metric, powers of ten.
Enough said.
Europeans need the metric system to scientifically measure their microscopic penises.
>>8829055
Metric, because "furlong" isn't an intuitive measurement.
Solve this, /sci/
upper image is rotated 180 degrees and common lines are deleted
>>8828842
>tfw to smart to check the exam before giving it to the professor.
Need advice getting into machine learning (or Big Data, at least)... I took my undergraduate ML class back when I was an undergrad, and I do remember a good bit of it. It was highly theoretical: more about understanding the algorithms and running them on different data sets, explaining why they performed the way they did, etc. Shouldn't be too hard to catch up again... I've thought about taking the follow up classes, but they seem even more theoretical, and I'd like to first make sure my basics are solid and that I know how to apply things...
My question is, my job doesn't have me do much with that, so I'm thinking about doing some projects at home. I know Scala and Python fairly well, and some C++, and I've thought about doing something with Spark and/or TensorFlow, but I'll take suggestions. I just have no idea what I should do... Anybody got cool project ideas that can ease the transition from the basics to more advanced stuff?
>>8828790
Learn probability and statistics
>>8828790
These pictures are so dumb. DNNs actually look like this:
[eqn]y = f_n\left(W_n \cdot\ \cdots f_3\left(W_3\cdot f_2\left(W_2\cdot f_1\left(W_1\cdot x + b_1\right)+b_2\right)+b_3\right) \cdots +b_n\right)[/eqn]
>>8828826
It's like conical topology for black holes, it is for the layman to understand.
Can you justify autodidacticism? Is there any good reason to learn science or mathematics on your own if you won't have the capacity to contribute?
"Because it's fun" isn't a good reason, by the way, because studying science/math is inherently not fun.
>>8828747
All great men [sic] have been autodidactic to a certain degree and normally in the extreme.
>>8828753
Not anymore. And "all great men were autodidacts" does not imply that "all autodidacts have the ability to be great men." This doesn't justify the autodidactic pursuit.
>>8828779
>Not anymore.
A great deal of [CITATION] needed.
>This doesn't justify the autodidactic pursuit.
Any self-directed study (read: dedication) is, by definition, a 'form' of autodidacticism.
1.Did we invent or discover math?
2.Are numbers objectively real or just a social construct?
3.Is math just applied logic?
4.Does infinity exist?
1. Yes
2. Objectively real
3. Ideally
4. Yes
>did we invent or discover math
Consider that math is a tool to describe the universe, not unlike a language.
Would you ask the question "are words invented or discovered?"
>>8828402
Yes.
Words are invent.
Who will win the "return to space" race?
The NASA Orion, the SpaceX Dragon 2 or the Boeing CST-100 Starliner?
>>8827882
My money is on Dragon 2. They're set to launch first right now and while Space-X will probably end up pushing the current target date back I doubt Boeing will be any better at avoiding delays.
SpaceX just needs space flight suits, a test launch of an unmanned dragon2, and then certification.
>>8827973
>SpaceX just needs space flight suits
This reminds me has any private space organization developed any kind of space suit?
Have any of them even looked into doing so?
Let's All Take A Moment Of Our Time To Praise Sal Khan. Just get down on your knees and slam the floor while repeating saying " THANK YOU KHAN! THANK YOU KHAN! " he taught us subjects we didn't understand.
>>8827708
I've literally never used it.
Seems like it would be equivalent to a shitty TA. And not just because he's a pajeet
>>8827725
You take that back before I call you a faggot over the internet.
Based Sal saved me from studying liberal arts
Was this the view of human origins a century ago? If so, why did it change?
>>8827706
>evolution and racis-
Stopped reading there.
>>8827709
>mfw
>>8827706
Because evolution is not about "higher life forms". There is no "higher" in evolution. Evolution is not advancement on a ladder. Evolution does not drive all species in a single direction that one might call "higher". It's a complete misunderstanding of evolution. To start making those sorts of racist valuations, you need to insert some values about what constitutes "better".
And as for that, it didn't stick because the molecular genetics didn't back it up. All humans are amazingly close. Any two humans on Earth are closer genetically than even two chimps in the same pack / tribe.
How is it possible that the four color theorem does not have an elegant proof yet? Did the creation of the shitty proof we have now even do anything to advance graph theory?
>>8827678
>How is it possible that the four color theorem does not have an elegant proof yet?
no one found one
>Did the creation of the shitty proof we have now even do anything to advance graph theory?
it proved the theorem
>>8827736
Simply proving a theorem means nothing. If the word of God said that the Riemann Hypothesis was true, just knowing that it was true would literally tell us nothing.
>>8827757
>Simply proving a theorem means nothing
wrong, it means the theorem is true
>If the word of God said that the Riemann Hypothesis was true
but that's not a proof
I'm just curious as you rarely see botany or even biology discussed here.
>>8827024
Sounds interesting and comfy.
>>8827052
Sitting in your lab doing cultures of some bitch-ass awesome fungi, yi boi!
that's not botany imo
What evolutionary purpose does attraction to traps serve?
>>8826828
The symbolic phallus / uncastrated mother is the ULTIMATE fetish/fantasy for men.
Psychoanalysis actually worked this out and theorized it almost a century ago before there was any such thing as 'traps' in the civilised world.
Makes sure you don't propagate your faggot genes.
>>8826833
>sexuality is genetic
Yeah anon if that were the case then I don't think we would have homosexuals at all.