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>>8663275
Honestly, as a finance major and software engineering minor, all I use is VB, and Visio. There are so many CS and SE majors that are much better at programming than I am, so if I understand a system that I need, I'll outsource the programming to another department.

>>8663286
I see. Do you rec I do any coding in my free time on my own at all? Or just take a few coding classes with my majors? Should I minor in Software Engineering too instead of taking CS classes?

>>8663297
Since I don't think programming skills will be obsolete anytime soon, I would recommend it.

I don't know how strong your uni SE program is, but SE is traditionally more applied knowledge than CS theoretical knowledge. Anyways, my school's SE program is ranked in the top 15 nationally, so I knew my extra time and money was being well utilized.

Also in all my courses we've skipped conics as a topic should I get a brief rundown on them before i start? (Monday)

>>8663137
Do you mind telling me what your syllabus was in Calc II? My uni's calc II is mostly integrals and some theorems but it seems like many other universities cover series in calc II.

>>8663146
Analytic geometry is trivial and pretty tedious. I'd recommend finding a non-brainlet source and keep it as a reference guide for when you need it in the future.

That's what I do.

>>8663089
Complex numbers are extremely useful for modelling trigonometric functions due to De Moivre's theorem, so it is good for anyone who works with things that act like waves, such as physicists who work with waves or electricians who work with electricity.

Infinite series are a (usually) good way to turn a messy function in to something a little more clean. From there, you can sometimes find the derivative or integral of said function in certain conditions. Knowing if the series converges or diverges is important for knowing the radius of convergence, i.e. when it's okay to actually use the series to represent your function. Computer scientists and engineers may use just a few of the first terms of the series to approximate the function in that case (some engineer's go as far as approximating sin x as x on the interval [-1,1]).

>>8663089
Those concepts are really trivial low-level math and therefore have applications everywhere. Just ask an engineer, but here is a warning:

Engineers are a weird bunch. Instead of writing the square root of -1 as 'i' they decided to write it as 'j' because they were not comfortable with a dick-shaped letter as short as i, given that the dicks they take up the ass are longer, like j. That said, those are still the complex numbers. Not some other weird set they discovered. The only things engineers discover are new cocks up their ass.

>>8663044
>>>/pol/

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Their work was relevant in only a very narrow field and single project, unlike generic observations and truths applying through all physics.

Pic related is one of the females the film is about. She wrote a pretty decent control program, and she wasn't white only on paper.

>>8663053
wasn't their work on the level of Einstein's General Relativity

>>8663042
>Is Linear Algebra THE way to go if you want to do a PhD
What?

>>8663055

I'm asking if it is the most easily applicable line of research if I want to get an R&D job after finishing my Ph.D

>>8663042
If you want something easy you should go into number theory.

TFW the planet is already inhabited by humans who had superiod tech and started 500 years after your generation sleeper ships.

>>8663029
You don't understand relativity. Look up time dilation.

It is (theoretically) perfectly possible to travel billions of light years in what would appear to you as one day. You just need to get really close to the speed of light (relatively to your starting point & destination).

>>8663193
this topic has always interested me
if the person in a spaceship going nearly lightspeed sees themself as going faster than lightspeed, who's to say that their perspective is wrong and the perspective of the Earth is right? maybe they really are going faster than lightspeed but only in their own frame of reference

>>8663019
>why not actually do something and use those brains of yours to solve this enigma?

Because I study pure mathematics lol.

That said, if you give me an axiomatic theory about baldness I could prove to you that a cure exists/doesn't exist.

You cut your losses (pun not intended) and shave your head then go on with your life, faggot. It's not like you lost your leg to diabeetus.

>>8663024
We could use you to analyze our logic and check for fallacies.
>>8663026
nihilist detected

>>8662984
Thank God I'm a dumbass!

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>CS guys are that attractive

Bullshit. We are nerds who rarely shower, with glasses like bottle bottoms. Half of us are fat fucks and the other half are thin as sticks.

>>8663003
did you just completely ignore the first graph or what

>>8662952
Or we could stay on earth and not worry about all this shit.

>>8662952
Why would it work? How would it work? Capturing laser energy and use it to produce thust isn't going to be easy.

>if a laservator worked why wouldnt it work prove me wrong

It would work and it's happening right now.

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>>8662949

temperature map, it's evidently warmer airmass

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it's like the warm Atlantic airmass is sucked to the pole, makes a turn around Scandinavia and then is ventilated into the Eurasian continent over the White Sea.

it's like it specifically wants to melt the polar ice

>>8662920
>implying you should waste your professors time.
>implying your first fuckup is unrelated to the other two.

Nobody owes you shit. Figure it out yourself or ask someone who's time is less valuable

>>8662920
fuck off retard a professor has way more important shit to do than answering some brainlets questions all day

>>8662920
man up and ask him about the other two.

I think it's possible and will happen, but just in a long time. Remember drug idea to market takes 20 or 30 years, I don't think we'll see legit extension medicine until maybe 50 to 80 years, probably even longer. Think of all the long term studies that will be needed.

I also don't think it'll be restricted to the elite. With Internet and democracy we've had the most equality than any other time in history, and if you want to make a lot of money, you lower the price and expand the market, which someone will definitely do.

>>8662811
>Remember drug idea to market takes 20 or 30 years

Maybe here in the West. But then again, would you go to China for treatments against aging? I won't even eat their food when I travel there.

We can't even get to mars. You want reverse aging in 20-25 years? Try 70-80 years at the earliest.

>Create antibiotic
>Bacteria is inhibited for a while
>Bacteria creates enzyme able to metabolize antibiotic
>Rinse and repeat

When you realize bacteria are harder to harness than a baby

>>8662782
Janthinobacterium lividum produces a compound that can kill of chytrid fungus (which is what is causing worldwide amphibian extinctions). People are now going around dousing frogs in baths of the bacterium and it seems to help them survive.

Thiomargarita is a bacteria that is so big it can be seen with the naked eye. Another gigantic bacterium is Epulopiscium, which is found only in the guts of some species of Surgeonfish.

That 'wet earth smell' that you sometimes notice after a rain is actually a chemical called geosmin produced by a very abundant genus of soil bacterium called Streptomyces.

>>8662782
Also, some marine amoebae harbor giant viruses that are larger than many bacteria. Some of these viruses' capsids are coated with phospholipids, which some ppl think is meant to trick the amoeba into thinking it's a bacterial cell and eating it.

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I'm interested in this too. Summon: actuary

/adv/-kun here, nice career and all but you need more courses in economics and finance THEORY, lots of stats and git gud at excel.

Not an actuary but that shit ain't easy, since if it was, all pure mathfags would be working in this.

As for the exams, dunno lol.

>>8662672
>>8663201
>>8664329
actuary isn't a particularly difficult job, but it requires a particular route through school and some extra exams. it pays well, too.
that said, i've never met an actuary that likes it. every single person i've talked to hates the job. almost unanimously though, i hear "but the pay is good i guess." even at a career fair, the actuary said "i wish i would have done something else, i hate this job, but the money is alright."

>>8662623
It is subjective but it works, makes predictions. Are your symbols recursive?

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>>8662623

>>8662623
This is so retarded