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Manned space programs were a mistake.

>>8671892
Not relevant to the current discussion.

Space programs were a mistake. Maybe start spending that money to fix our problems on earth instead of shooting your fake metal dicks into orbit for no good reason?

>>8671843
There's clouds.

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>>8671852
But it's still bright right?

>>8671843
cloudy here, no sun
what now OP?

He should have told you to fuck off 9 emails before. That's his fault.

>>8671837
Brainlet problems

>>8671837
Don't be autistic about it just apologize and then when you see him in person apologize again

>>8671601
Nope.

>>8671601
>surpasses brainpower of mouse in 2015
kek

>>8671601
If there were a god and God had a gender, she would likely be female.
Maturing past the need for gods is a sign of intelligence (accepting responsibility). All religions are failures: and usually made up by insecure, inadequate guys and ped-rapists.

>>8671516
Lots of things like that exist, and they're generally seen by programmers as a waste of time.
Once you have experience with programming you don't write programs "a character at a time" anyway, you create the bits and pieces and string them together mentally as you work.

Hey OP, check out hackerrank challenges, I think you'll like it.

Basically you're given input(s), and your task is to make a program that produces a certain output.

You don't have to do it in C, you can also try other programming languages to do the task. There's support for a lot of languages.

It's very much like Human Resource Machine.

>>8671516

I liked "Learn C the Hard Way" back when I first started learning because it basically would start you off with a concept, and then send you off to try to break shit.

It was free back then. I think he charges for it now. It's too bad. You can probably find it for free online somewhere.

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Corundum

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Personally, Quartz, simply because it's such a versatile mineral, there's so many varieties, it's extremely common, and has incredible inclusions. Fluorite following that (much like quartz, incredible variety and color), and I'd say Tourmaline as well.

>>8668351
Beautiful Tourmaline, one of my favorites as well. Looks like it has some Lepidolite (the purple stuff) growing on the sides as well.

Also, gonna post a few minerals from my parent's collection since this is a mineral thread. I'm no expert and I can't identify everything, so maybe you guys could help. They're actually coming back from Tucson, Arizona tomorrow after buying even more minerals there, both to sell and for their own collection.

First up, Quartz with blue inclusion mineral, I'm not sure what it is and I can't find the placard for this specimen, I think it has some ajoite in it though.

First you have to define what you mean by number of possible games, because it's not as easy as you think.

Do different numbers of oscillations of stalemate count as different games? If two games take different routes to arrive at a final game state, does that count as different games? What if there is a minor variation in the middle of a game that resolves to be identical past a certain point to another game? If two players spend two rounds advancing pawns forward one space versus one round advancing one space, are those different games?

>>8669691
No

>>8669701
I'd say yes to all those questions. But it doesn't really matter, because the question is still applicable for all (reasonable) definitions.

As long as we can discount infinite oscillations, but chess has rules against that, right? And also disregarding obtusely trivial definitions like saying all permutations of moves that end with one color winning as being equivalent games.

>>8667498
if you entire life isn't focused at least on the subject you studied in undergrad at the broad level, you are a brainlet that will never make any significant contribution. Nobody gives a fuck about your "hobby subjects" faggot.

>>8667511
Your words cut deep as a goth kid, anon.

>>8667511
What is some extracurricular reading I can do while studying biochemistry that isn't popsci? should I read research papers in my free time?

>>8665676
Quest [to be more] and question [everything and everyone].
Then start with "reasonable" statements of fact, civility and humanity.

>>8665765
Nice reading comprehension.
OP is asking researchers about their own original results.

>>8665676
Stability and convergence analysis on a new numerical method for a specific pde.

"Note that you aren't actually allowed to do this with differentials, but for our purposes it works so..."

(proceeds to only work half the time)

>>8673214
>>8673258
fuck off

>>8673266
t. high school teacher who taught me false """""""""""mathematics"""""""""""""""

This belongs in the stupid questions thread.

>>8673008
Well I am pretty stupid, no need to tell me.

>>8673006
the gradient is (2x,-2y). Your book is wrong.

>>8672789
if you want money you should be doing finance

>>8672792
If you want money, you should be a hooker. It's all relative to a person's ego.

>>8672794
nah incomes in finance go up over your career, but incomes is prostitution decline with age, no matter how young you join the profession

>physics
Physics is basically elevated neet desu. It can be debunked so easily, like you just did, but still brainlets believe in it.

>>8672421
Every molecule inside that would be pulled towards the centre of earth by gravity

>>8672438
No, because the centre of gravity isn't touching anything.

Bumping for interest

>>8672227
Noo motivation, no energy, can't think. Constant anxiety irritable makes you depressed. Can't do shit. Feel like a 4 year old.

I was diagnosed with schizoaffective (which is basically on/off bipolar and schizophrenia, co-morbidity symptoms) about 4-5 years ago. So I've been living with this for a while now.

>What parts of your life does it affect?
it affects a few things like social life, personality (maybe? i've always been kindof an "odd ball"), lack of motivation (might be depression?), among a few other things.

Most people my age are already working on their careers, and I don't really have a plan. I know I don't want to be on SSI all my life or have these full time, dead-end jobs. So, yeah.

I've been on SSI for 3-4 years, and I idealistically would like to get off of it. Because of my socio-political stance, I feel it's contributing to depression symptoms. Sometimes I have mindfog during work and I feel that affects my ability to lead and keep the jobs I have gotten, so I'm kindof stuck. And I think that that's the biggest problem.

Recently, within the past 1-2 years, I've been getting better, since i've been working and things like that. I've had good friends help me out with job opportunities, which i've taken gleefully. Very few friends know I have this condition.

>does it help to talk about it
maybe? I talked about it with multiple different therapists for the first several years. but I find just hanging out with the people I can relate to is the best form of therapy. I think most people are like that.

The therapy was also coupled with strong medication, like heavy doses of Seroquel, which essentially put me into a figurative coma-- I never wanted to do anything, motivation was gone, and I felt like a "zombie". That, coupled with personal experiences from medication. Are the things which turned me off to medication as a whole.

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>>8671152
>chromatic homotopy theory
>higher category theory
>arithmetic geometry

* chaos theory.
* cellular automata.
* knots, braids an dildos.

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>>8671314
>cellular automata

Say that to my face fucker not online