How do you cope with foreign lecturers with thick accents?
I literally can't understand a single word he says.
>>8816705
I read the material instead of listen to it.
>relying on a professor's adequacy in communicating their subject to pass
>posting on /sci/
Read the fucking book.
>>8816705
>>8816705
Had the same problem and decided to just read a fucking 1000 page book instead of trying to decipher her retarded accent. It was much, much easier.
Some PhDs should be shot, working your ass off to write a shitty dissertation and pass some exams isn't something that entitles you to have a shitty, indecipherable accent. It doesn't entitle you to be a fucking unlikeable retard who doesn't know how to socialize and speak. If people like Turing, Einstein, Feynman, Grothendieck, Euler, Euclid, Archimedes, etc shared their knowledge and were mostly likeable, funny, adapted persons then a random PhD bitch who teaches has no excuse. Didn't Euler go to fucking Russia, had 2 different wives, 15 children and was respected by royal families? That's surely a sign that he knew how to adapt, socialize and communicate. Surely it would've been impossible to become liked and respected by inbred, royal fucks if he had a thick, retard accent.
There are accent courses available for free on the internet. Fucking adapt and learn to communicate you dumb foreigner. God fucking damn it.
>teach people about 3rd year CS theoretical math shit
>be from Russia
>translate everything word-for-word, don't give a shit about grammar, use Russian grammar with English words
>thick accent
>shitty powerpoint slides
>*autist mumble* *slides show a complicated 2d matrix filled with nonsensical notation that doesn't communicate anything, symbols aren't explained, nothing is* *retard mumble, everyone looks at lecturer scared* zo dis iz wy de rowz an ze column ze give ze formula very eezy *no explanation* next zlide.
questions about planets
1. why are there no liquid planets? how does Neptune have water but yet its a gas planet?
2. what would happen if a human landed on Mars or Mercury and swam in the water?
>>8815885
Blah blah blah, tell me what you think?
Smiley glad hands with they're hidden agendas. Go fuck a goat and watch bubbles in spacewalks. Maybe that will wake you up tard.
neptune could have water but it could be in a gas form similar to steam
>>8815885
Liquid planets exist. There are just none in our system.
ITT things that caused you to lose faith in the common man.
I already have very little faith in the common man. I don't need to see this.
I fucking hate Ben Stein ever since my grandma sent me to a christian conversion thing for atheists and undecided. I tried to go in with an open mind to listen to their reasoning, but I just lost it when I saw this film with Ben Stein where it was just nothing but an endless stream of fallacious arguments one after another. It was actually amazing how quickly he could move from one flawed line of reasoning to another.
What pissed me off the most was that the logical reasons he gave were wrong in such subtle ways that I'm sure they would be very convincing to stupid people or people who have no education in regards to logic.
>>8815607
To clarify, by "lost it" I mean I lost all respect for the program and decided not to go back for the next meeting.
https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/87737/depressing-tutoring
Oh, mein Gott:
>Tutor (Master's student) who recently transferred to an unnamed European university bemoans the standard of the 1st year maths undergrads there, saying they struggle to solve simple matrix equations
>An American CC prof replies:
"most students entering U.S. community colleges do not have 8th grade algebra skills, nor even 6th grade arithmetic skills (e.g., fractions, proportions, negatives, estimations, times tables).
[...]
"I've had a good chunk of a college math lecturer career at this point and I've never taught anything as high level as matrices.
[...]
"Many also clearly have learning disabilities"
Thoughts?
No thoughts
No words
We are doomed
Maybe because not everyone is good at math and if they were they would most likely not go to a tutor for help.
most students entering community colleges aren't going into a STEM field so it's ok
/sci/ btfo
the bear will wake up instantly because the speed of wood is greater than the speed of light, it's basic physics
>>8815010
you have neglected how long it takes the finger to touch the wood, which is the speed of thought. therefore this violates casuality.
>>8815014
fuck
What are Sci's thoughts 'bout his work?
Is he a genius o a fool?
http://observer.com/2017/04/dr-sergio-canavero-head-transplant/
>>8814931
Interesting operation.
We'll learn a lot even if it fails.
if it works we are officially living in the future
OP here.
He talks about reconnecting the spinal cord. This is amazing.
And we got proofs that this already happened with mice.
I'm so excited about this.
Plus, he's from my city. DOPE.
How the fuck do i stop procrastinating ?
Always when i have free time i wait until the last moment to do shit.
I have some moments in which i'm ready to conquer the fucking world, i download every possible book ( literature , math , physics ) but i end up doing jack shit...
How do i stop this ?
meditation ? drugs ? i really need help guys.
>>8814281
There's a ton of resources on how to do it.
A basic way I did it was:
1. Go somewhere you can't easily get distracted
2. Don't bring shit unless you 100% need it to study/do whatever you need to do. So, leave behind your phone, and laptop if you can.
3. Set a hard time to do it. For some reason, It's a lot easier to do it when you say "I'm going to study from noon to 2 p.m." than "I'm going to study for 2 hours today"
4. Take little breaks while you're study. This varies from person to person. Some do 5 minutes per hour. Some do 5 per half hour. Experiment, and see what works for you.
Another thing is a lot of people get really distracted when they start studying, and get discouraged by it. I think that's more of a symptom of the age we live in now. It doesn't mean you're retarded, or hopeless. It means you spend too much time on 4chan/reddit/your phone constantly searching for things to grab your attention. If you can handle going on those sites in small doses, then whatever. If not, cut 'em out for a while. It can't hurt to see what'll happen, and you're not gonna miss anything. It takes a while to correct itself.
>>8814281
I don't know, I'm procrastinating right this minute.
>>8814289
seconded, fuck 4chan is seducing me men, my next schedule is I'm gonna go to /gif/ and /b/ and fap 4x
Is there any scientific reason not to be a vegan?
B12 and Omega 3 seem like valid reasons, but the obesity and hypertension rates of non-vegans are so high that I don't think it matters anymore.
I have been vegan for like 10 days. Massive amounts of gas.
Meat tastes fucking great
>>8813591
Vegan icecream exists now. I don't need it.
What scientific(or mathematical) fact blew your fucking mind when you were a kid?
>inb4 maymay answers
A fact that blew my mind was that by going faster you age slower.
The shape of the earth
For me:
>The sun is actually a star and we moved around it.
>Our ancestors came from the sea
>Our legs used to look like hands (I looked at my leg for the longest time and tried to move my toes like fingers and the realization creeped me out)
>The existence of the asteroid belt
>what pi meant (I asked my sister)
Hi /sci/
Do you guys know if vortexting or sonicating a solution can break antigen-antibody bonds?
I am basically capturing an antigen using beads that are coated with antibody. However, when I ran my experiment today, I did not detect any antigen on them. I spiked in antigen so I know it should have been there initially. Do you think vortexting/sonicating the solution screwed up the bonds? I can't find any info online.
Thanks in advance!
>>8817874
Could the antibodies have come off the beads during sonication?
>>8817885
maybe, that's what I was wondering. can that happen? i thought sonication works on the micron scale and would not impact the nanoscale molecules
>>8817928
I honestly have no idea but I don't think it would be an issue. I'd check other variables first, e.g. incubation time. What did you use/how did you check whether there was binding?
I've just unified all of numbers.
Why has no one solved desalination?
>>8817411
Because this is not a top priority for rich and/or powerful countries.
>>8817416
Gulf states need it and they are rich.
>>8817411
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis
Solved for years.
Several threads here state that only if you are naturally good with mathematics you can consider yourself intelligent.
I remember my readings about Beethoven. In some biography or article, I read that he was terribly bad at basic arithmetic.
Search in Google, find info about it:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classical-music/seven-surprising-things-you-never-knew-about-beethoven/
https://books.google.com.br/books?id=kvauCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT20&dq=beethoven+arithmetic&hl=pt-BR&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVrJiduprTAhVCl5AKHRSrC344ChDoAQgZMAA#v=onepage&q=beethoven%20arithmetic&f=false
https://books.google.com.br/books?id=ZtfuAAAAMAAJ&q=beethoven+bad+arithmetic&dq=beethoven+bad+arithmetic&hl=pt-BR&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1tbrJuprTAhUGi5AKHTqoDOo4ChDoAQg2MAQ
So why do people here keep insisting that one needs to be naturally capable at math to be intelligent?
There are many different ways that one can be intelligent. End of story.
>>8817183
Why would you take anything a bunch of 17 year old brainlets who don't know shit about shit say seriously ?
>>8817183
Gee I wonder why a bunch of autists who do math problems all day because they're afraid to go outside define intelligence by one's capacity to do math problems
>people on this board think that 0.999...=1
when actualy lim 0.999... = 1
>people on this board think that 0.999.. exists
>>8817078
can science be used to justify mysogyny?
>>8816964
Theoretically. Science could "theoretically" prove that colour is made by the number of pirates in your anus.
>>8816972
>theoretically
>war brides (no concept of loyalty to their tribe)
>lower IQ than the upper range of males
>physically weaker
>lower reaction times
>emotional thinking
>worse 3D spacial skills
>worse manual coordination
Probably not