If I were in the hunger games, which field of science or math would help me the most?
>>8822965
Probably medicine.
>>8822982
I definitely second this. If you're too dumb for medicine, maybe pharmacy, but that shortlists the surgical aspects you can tap onto when you fuck yourself up and need it.
>>8822965
Nursing/Medicine
Any sort of engineering degree is useless if you don't have appropriate equipment.
Will science ever reach a point where humans aren't smart enough to make further progress?
At that point we'll just outsource to other planetary civilizations. But what would we give them as part of the trade?
probably, supposedly technologic singularity will help us overcome that curve, or at least the AIs we create will be capable to
>Do I need a high level STEM degree to work for the NSA?
maths degree
number theory
probably not but you need to at least be able to use google to find the NSA's website and look at their career postings
>>8822019
No, they actually recruit primarly direct feom cs and math undergrads.
T. I'm in their 3 year training program.
Is personality dependent on genes?
Yes and No.
>>8821949
ok. thanks
>>8821947
Partly yes. Environment I think plays a bigger part though. Look up twin studies.
does [math]\varepsilon^{\alpha_{1}...\alpha_{n}} T_{\alpha_{1}...\alpha_{n}}[/math] transform like a scalar? supposing that T is a rank n covariant tensor field.
hur durr
>>8821054
yes. It is a trivial question, but an important pedagogical question all the same.
Does it transform like a scalar? no. The levi-civita symbols fail to transform like rank n contravariant tensors and so you cannot contract them to form invariants.
attempting to transform the levi civita symbol yields the following
[eqn]\varepsilon^{\alpha_{1}...\alpha_{1}}\prod_{i=1}^{n}\frac{\partial\bar{x}^{\beta_{i}}}{\partial x^{\alpha_{i}}} = \bar{\varepsilon}^{\beta_{1}...\beta_{1}}
|\partial \bar{x} |[/eqn]
>you wanted to be a scientist
>you where a brainlet
>you worked hard
>you got into a decent university
>you didn't go out of fear
>you took up a normal job
>you never fit in with plebs
>you never fit in with patricians
>you die alone and full of regret
>tfw too smart for a normal life and too dumb for a life of science
>>8819785
Most scientists are highly skilled mechanics. They understand how a particular system works and how to manipulate it. Their intelligence has to do with remembering a bunch of facts regarding a very specific system. Your average business man or even clinician is much much "smarter" than someone who can tell you everything there is to know about cellular respiration but knows fuck all else.
The biggest sign of their overall retardation is thinking they're too smart for normal life, so if anything you're a very average scientist.
>>8819843
0/10
>>8819850
Stay butthurt. I've studied more science and involved myself with more scientists than you ever will.
>$1,000,000,000 to develop reusable technology
>one BILLION dollars
>one falcon 9 flight costs $70 million
>they spent 15 flights worth (more than half their number of successful missions so far) of money on something that won't see returns for years
>even at 10% profit per flight, it will take them 140 flights to remake their reuse development money
>ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FLIGHTS (three times their entire manifest combined)
SpaceX has really dug themselves into a hole here. How will they even recover?
>>8817134
Typical short-term mindset. This is exactly why mankind is doomed to fail. If anything, only SpaceX can save us now.
>>8817134
gubmint subsidies
>>8817135
>literally zero argument
hmmm...
I don't know anything about calculators, which one should I buy? Graduating with a bachelor's in mathematics this May, and I want to get myself one as a graduation gift.
HP 35s
>>8815806
HP 12C Platinum
>>8815806
You don't need a calculator. Your computer is much more powerful and useful than those antiquated shit machines.
>your school
>major
>GPA
>thoughts on the school/program
>your school
University of Washington
>major
Computer science and mathematics double major
>GPA
3.8
>thoughts on school/program
Very pretty campus, tons of research opportunities, and our CS program is pretty good. I'm happy here
>>8812796
Looks beautiful, much greener than the concrete jungle I live in
>>8812785
>Wichit State
>MS Aerospace Engineering
>3.0
Most of the classes feel like stuff that should've been taught at the bachelor's level (theory of elasticity, FEM, vibrations, etc.) but it's good for making local connections. The department is growing, though, so I expect to see things improve.
Pic related.
They have the ultimate meme book in my university's mathematics department, which means that all my professors know the proof to the fundamental theorem of everything:
1+1=2
This should be a new standard for how good your uni is. Does your university have the proof of 1+1=2 or do you go to a shithole?
>>8822083
>which means that all my professors know the proof to the fundamental theorem of everything:
>1+1=2
No it doesn't
nobody has read that meme book especially after gödel btfo'd it
Brainlet here. How can 1+1=anything but 2?
The Average IQ will continue to decrease as the low IQ have higher fertility rates. (i know IQ is a flawed measurment but bare with me). I'm not suggesting that we kill or sterilize anyone, I think this can be done morally. Perhaps benefits for people of higher IQ's for having children. This problem becomes increasingly relevant with our rush towards total automation
>>8822017
We're at an awkward development point, where natural selection has lost its mediating force. But it's followed by direct manipulation of DNA, so there's really no reason to worry.
But yeah, if we didn't do that or a form of eugenics, we'd eventually end up going the way of the sunfish.
>soft
>>8822017
You are such a brainlet you dont even know that selective breeding is inferior to genetic engineering.
We only have this thread like every day.
does anyone feel stupid a lot? or are self aware of their cognitive limitations compared to their peers. how do i come to terms with my ape brain? how do i become smarter??
sheet if life was about answers and not attitude, I would still be depressed as fuck
>>8821131
you just gotta keep trying i guess
if you don't use it you lose it
>>8821141
This is not true, if you want to be actually smart, you have to not try and still be able to destroy your peers. If you have to try hard, you just look like a plebeian to the actually smart people.
What does the thing the arrow is pointing to look like to you guys? It shows up on on three different 4mm slices. This is the middle slice.
Asking for a friend.
>>8821037
it looks like my parents fighting
it means this person is not white
>Now lets look at a real world application
>>8820402
>study math
>have the option to study financial mathematics
>refuse because it sounds boring and don't want to earn money
>>8820402
>""""""""""""""""""""""real"""""""""""""""""""
>>8820406
The class is called calculus, not "calculus with financial applications"
Theres multiple brainlet calculus classes, they can go there.
he invented thomas edison
>>8820313
A.C. electricity
>>8820326
>he invented
>he
>invented