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>>8782860
First, "liberal" in America has a very different meaning than in the rest of the world.

Secondly, left-leaning ideologies and beliefs usually have much more theory than right-leaning ones. Which would explain why most people who study them appears to be leftists.

Finally, conservatives in the USA tend to have a severe anti-academic bias. This again explains why most educated people lean liberal.

>>8782860
could it be that personality traits associated with becoming a college professor overlap with traits typically found in liberals?

>nah

>>8782868
>>8782869

This. Professors are oftentimes idealists and prefer theory while not caring for a lucrative career. There is probably a hard intersectionality here between these traits and liberalism.

Their conservative counterparts are chasing money somewhere.

>>8781257
come to terms that you are a brainlet and quit university

>>8781265
Shut the fuck up I need to do this cunt, fuck off, fucking pathetic worthless piece of shit Kill yourself.

Jk I love you x

>>8781257
why scratch

>>8780670
not even slightly. perhaps such a diploma would land you a slightly better job, but it certainly would not prepare you for graduate school.

if you are not interested in going into a master's or PhD then maybe it is worth it if you have a guaranteed salary increase. otherwise i would say that diploma is pretty worthless

>>8780869
>if you are not interested in going into a master's or PhD
I am not.
>if you have a guaranteed salary increase
I'm currently a self-taught, self-employed code monkey. The few times I've dared to send off CVs locally, I've never had a response. I have no school-leaving qualifications either, and a CV with no education section and only basic freelance webdev in the experience section is not very appealing. I do think I need something formal to prove I'm not a complete fraud.

Besides, I'm well aware that all self-taught devs have huge gaps in their knowledge. I currently have only the vaguest clue what time complexity is, have no idea how to solve the travelling salesman problem, and never even learned basic calculus. The course I'm looking at covers all the essential maths and algorithms from scratch (almost certainly not to the same depth as a normal degree, but it's named "Computing & IT" not "Computer Science"), as well as programming in Java et al (which I would breeze through since I'm doing it already).

I have enough existing knowledge that I think I can do it "full time" (3 years) while also still doing a lot of freelance work. I also want a degree so that I would have the option to live and work in Australia, SE Asia, etc. The provider is actually relatively well respected in the UK but I want the international perspective so I know if I would be laughed out of the building or not.

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>>8780869
Feels bad man

I've been thinking of going into Penn State's Master of Acoustics distance learning program after I finish my MS in Aerospace Engineering.

Would that be brainlet-tier? Should I just kill myself instead?

Maybe I'll just kill myself.

>>8780652
Because (one point) knowledge (STEM knowledge) is power. Give me a modern tank, send me back to ancient roman empire and I will become empereor. Or give me a strong AI today, that follows my orders and tomorrow you will fall down to your knees before me.

>>8780675
>tank runs out of gasoline
>you get killed

>>8780675
>Give me a modern tank, send me back to ancient roman empire and I will become empereor.
I find this very hard to believe. The tank would be hard to service with no industry to back it up. The Romans aren't idiots, they'd realize that it's essentially just a more advanced form of their siege engines and not magic.

>>8780397
Both.

The man who invented the machine, the machine didn't build itself nor can it do anything with the social prestige and monetary gain from the discovery of a ground breaking scientific phenomenon.

The machine, obviously. The man laid the foundation but the complexities of the discovery ie. the discovery itself beyond knowledge already known, was developed of the machines own accord. Was Albert Einsteins discoveries credited to his parents and not himself?

>>8780374
Chimps and humans cannot produce viable offspring you brainlet. That's why they are a different species. Kys.

>>8780374
>Should be trying to find way off rock, so we aren't simply BTFO by some massive rock.
>Nah, lets just fuck some chimps and see what happens, right?!
Holy shit, you degenerate motherfucker, get out of here Welshy, stick to the sheep!

>>8780374
>thinks it possible to breed humans with chimps
>why are humans so much smarter than other apes?
You clearly are not.

>>8780274
>he fell for the climate change meme
kek!

have you paid your carbon tax yet goy?

>>8780304
yeah muh KEKU GOD WILL SAVE US

PRAISE KEKU XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

LOL SO randumb it's like i'm on /b/ XD

>>8780304
> having to pay money and not liking it as a counter-argument
> congratulations 4chan, you actually successfully killed society

If you don't want to spend your whole life on it and aren't a genius, don't(unless you don't care about being poor, then I would do it)

Q: should i switch to math?

A: yes

>>8780164
I want to go to grad school and be a prof

>>8779969

For what reason

>>8779969
https://medium.com/@javier_noris/an-outline-to-learning-to-code-in-1-year-572a1a78fa62#.xtmdv95wu

>>8779972
self teach me CS.

Fuck off Timothy.

>>8779859
Do you think I'm going to let him read that? You can be as rude as you want, it won't reach his eyes

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Couple weeks into calculus 1 now, doing well, already past the chain rule and beyond. Quotient rule was a joke. Product rule remains my specialty.
I ask my professor his thoughts on quantum mechanics and partial derivatives. He's impressed i know about the subject. We converse after class for some time, sharing mathematical insights; i can keep up. He tells me of great things ahead like series and laplacians. I tell him i already read about series on wikipedia. He is yet again impressed at my enthusiasm. What a joy it is to have your professor visibly brighten when he learns of your talents.
And now I sit here wondering what it must be like to be a brainlet, unable to engage your professor as an intellectual peer.
All of the deep conversations you people must miss out on because you aren't able to overcome the intellectual IQ barrier that stands in the way of your academic success... it's so sad.
My professor and I know each other on first name basis now, but i call him Dr. out of respect.
And yet here you brainlets sit, probably havent even made eye contact with yours out of fear that they will gauge your brainlet IQ levels.
A true shame, but just know it is because i was born special that i am special. I can't help being a genius, nor can my professor.
Two of a kind is two flocks in a bush.

temporal lobe.

humans are able to know how to empathize and know what others think.

>>8779576
lol, not cringy at all

>>8779576
he did it for free?

What is it?

>>8779559
It can do all the usual plotting and numerical shit, but it lacks the momentum for more specific stuff. I can see that some day this will change, but I don't know for sure. I think most features are already present in Python, but the way they are designed and implemented in Julia is often more appealing. I really hope it takes off, but if I think about how long FORTRAN was the status quo in my branch of physics, I have my doubts that I live to see Julia replacing Python.

>>8779582
This. Everyone at my uni uses python for scientific computing.

The problem new languages have to face is that being better isn't good enough. Older languages have years worth of libraries, documentation, experts, ect...

It has to be better in such a way that it negates the effort of having to learn a new language.

>>8778765
Rip methane clathrate reserves

So will al this methane speed of global warming?

>>8778839
drastically.

multiple times more effective as a green house gas. lasts a few years in the atmosphere. then breaks down into CO2. Which persists for at least a century.

it is far too late to try to fix anything by emitting less carbon. we need to start removing carbon from the air and oceans. while also increasing solar reflectivity of the earth's surface.

>>8778521
everything in calc 2 is brainlet tier maths
you should be able to get an easy 100

>>8778521
I took calc 2 last year and series was hard mainly because the teacher was going super fast over the material.

>>8778521
Just derive all the Taylor Expansions. You just gotta take some derivatives, remember some coefficients, and evaluate at zero. or just remember what the first three or so terms are and figure out what the pattern is for the rest.

>>8778037
Wew

>>8778037
Lad

hahaha