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You can't find an algorithm that runs faster than O(-1/12) time.

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Should I even bother reading this?

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>spend entire life studying, working hard, creating a personality

>hit head mildly
>it hurts to think now
>eyes always dry, obvious photosensitivity
>24/7 tinnitus
>get nauseous for no reason
>memory worse
>speech slurred
>literally can't do anything anymore
>almost have a tension headache at all times
>doctors give me scans and say nothing is wrong
>six months after hitting head, not any better
>clearly just a slower, more easily aggravated version of my former self

What a rip off.

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Good book for an introduction to complex analysis?


Other than the Zill.

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What James Webb will discover?

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Why aren't we practicing this again? Outside religious "reasoning" there is no sensible explanation why eugenics are banned.

>it's false science
Wrong.

>results would take generations
Only one generation for minor alterations such as lesser risk of hereditary diseases. Dog breeding evidence suggests no more than four generations even for larger changes.

>killing is wrong
Agreed. But abortion and preventive devices are not.

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How do you think over population will effect the human race?
Asking on this board for a more thought out answer.

we've gone form 2 billion to 7.5 in about 50 years.

I think it will be a huge problem and everywhere on earth will be a crime ridden third world slum and the only people with acceptable living conditions will be governments and the ultra rich.

I think society at large will lose the ability to renew itself and technology will be forgotten when the established manufactures of complex tech goods close shop due to poor safety conditions like in chicago or detroit.

Am I being too negative?

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I work in a chemistry lab at a top 10 public university in the US. There's 10 grad students in the lab, but it seems that only 2 of them actually genuinely enjoy chemistry and research. The rest appear to, at least, partially regret going to grad school.

/sci/, do we think half-assed science is a problem? It seems to me that these students who aren't fully interested in science would be more productive for society in a regular job. The superstar grad students that push all of the papers are working on the most pressing and interesting research anyways.

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Any other Color Theory majors here?

Whats your favorite color and why is it Magenta?

Some fun sciency facts on Magenta

>Magenta is an extra-spectral color, meaning that it is not found in the visible spectrum of light. Rather, it is physiologically and psychologically perceived as the mixture of red and violet/blue light, with the absence of green.

>In the RGB color system, used to create all the colors on a television or computer display, magenta is a secondary color, made by combining equal amounts of red and blue light at a high intensity. In this system, magenta is the complementary color of green, and combining green and magenta light on a black screen will create white.

>In the CMYK color model, used in color printing, it is one of the three primary colors, along with cyan and yellow, used to print all the rest of the colors. If magenta, cyan, and yellow are printed on top of each other on a page, they make black. In this model, magenta is the complementary color of green, and these two colors have the highest contrast and the greatest harmony. If combined, green and magenta ink will look dark gray or black. The magenta used in color printing, sometimes called process magenta, is a darker shade than the color used on computer screens.

>A purple hue in terms of color theory, magenta is evoked by light having less power in green wavelengths than in blue/violet and red wavelengths (complements of magenta have wavelength 500–530 nm)

>In the Munsell color system, magenta is called red–purple

>If the spectrum is wrapped to form a color wheel, magenta (additive secondary) appears midway between red and violet. Violet and red, the two components of magenta, are at opposite ends of the visible spectrum and have very different wavelengths. The additive secondary color magenta, as noted above, is made by combining violet and red light at equal intensity; it is not on the actual spectrum.

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Other than Nuclear and Train is there any other acceptable kind of engineer?

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http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6242/1469.full
The Deniers need to be stopped

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Hey /sci/,
I'm dealing with a climate change skeptic who has made a claim, without peer review citation, that only 4% of the carbon in the atmosphere is from man made sources; hence showing anthropogenic global warming is incorrect. In particular, he made the claim that c13/c12 ratio from Mauna loa laboratory is only delta -8.3 ppm; the claim checked out.
My expertise lies in molecular bio, i'm having trouble finding the citations to fire back. Does anyone on /sci/ have a good review article on atmospheric carbon isotopes?

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I'm trying to get my catholic friend to concede that there is at least one circumstance in which abortion is the best option or an acceptable option - and therefore abortion itself isn't inherently wrong.

>I know there are other lines of reasoning but I went with this one.

I gave her the hypothetical situation where going through with the pregnancy would kill the child and the mother, but aborting the child would save at least the mother. On top of that you could add that the mother helps loads of people and the family rely on the mother etc etc.

Anyway, I think she just doesn't get what a fucking hypothetical question is so I want to give her a real example of a medical condition that creates this sort of circumstance.

>tl;dr: Does anyone on /sci/ know of any circumstance in which pregnancy leads to the death of the baby and mother, but abortion doesn't?

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Why are CS and Engineering such sausage fests?

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A circle isn't a series of a infinite points. A point has no length so when you add them together you will still just have a 0 length point, not a circle.