he attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, studying chemical engineering, until he got into an argument with a professor about what one times one equals. "How can it equal one?" he said. "If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect. One times one equals two because the square root of four is two, so what's the square root of two? Should be one, but we're told it's two, and that cannot be."
It seems odd, but he has a point.
>>8641086
Please stop posting on /sci/ and go yell HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US.
Thank you
>mathematician tells you he has proven something
>he shows you a paper with some fancy drawings and words
>just a paper
>paper with black lines and dots
>paper
>has proven something
>proven
>the nature obeys that paper
>he didn't do a single experiment
>proven
>your face when
How does this differ from just reading the Bible and saying that God created the world in 7 days 5000 years ago? That's paper and black lines and dots also.
Nah, this is not the right bait.
No one studies math here
>>8641084
this is much better bait
Are quantum fluctuations truly random? Does random exist in nature or is it just something that seems like randomness from our perspective? If you could reverse time to the moment of the Big Bang, would the resulting universe be exactly the same as this one, or could there be different physical laws? I guess I am asking whether the universe is a closed system. If we had could observe and record the Big Bang, could we theoretically simulate the entire universe including ourselves?
Be nice.
>>8640979
You mean replicate the Big Bang in a controlled setting?
>>8640981
Theoretically if a superadvanced race was "observing and recording" the Big Band and had an absurdly powerful computer, could they simulate everything that is happening? If the universe ends in a crunch (not likely), and is indeed a closed system, how autistic is it to think that if there is another Big Bang, that it would be exactly like this one down to this thread?
>>8640979
>tfw too dumb for /sci
Have you ever watched a GP or even worse, a med student, try to explain something as if they were a biologist or a chemist and had the slightest idea what they were talking about?
Is medical practitioner the definitive brainlet occupation?
>>8640864
A large proportion of medical students have a degree in Biology, upwards of 50%
Medicine is structured to engage with patients in education at the 4th grade level.
If a doctor explained to a patient why they went into diabetic ketoacidosis, no doctor would say, "well your lack of insulin has caused your cells to engage in betaoxidation of fatty acids to produce pyruvate to enter glycolysis and produce ATP, but because you are utilizing fatty acids you are causing production of ketone acids that has caused your blood's pH to rise and you're severely dehydrated because free glucose molecules are freely circulating and pulling water from your intracellular space and causing a state of slight crenation. This is why we are giving you lots of IV fluids, this is why you're on an insulin drip to resolve ketoacidosis, this is why I'm monitoring your anion gaps."
Patient's aren't educated, generally. Patient's also generally want to hear this explanation when they are sick.
If your case is different and you're seen as an outpatient, then ask for a thorough explanation or study the mechanisms yourself
>>8640864
Medical students are biologists and 50% chemists. It's part of their lengthy formation.
Judging by your post, I would describe you like pic related
Is he the smartest man on the planet?
>>8640631
no, pic related is
>>8640631
It's likel likely me.
>>8640631
I'm likely the most intelligent, open-minded. Most people never heard of core-beliefs or thought to question them.
i know this is the wrong place to ask , but the brainlets at /biz/ failed me soo
Hey guys, im from scandinavia, and in a couple of years im going to study in the States. However, i dont know which major to take. Is mainly between political science or finance. Im not too familiar with the US graduation system so correct me if anything i write sounds wierd. I'd prefer a minor in political science, but ive heard it's getting harder and harder to get jobs. Or atleast here in scandinavia. What to you sugges ill do?
>pic related
Hopefully me in a couple years listening to 4chan
>>8640385
Political science here in Scandinavia means a career in politics so your career is fully dependent on your personal network. And studying abroad is not likely to gain you much network where it counts: at home.
Politics is basically mass inbreeding in system.
>political """"science""""
>political science
do you want to make no money
wtf is this shit? I just wanted to make games
>>8640006
the new political correctness trend requires everyone to practise integration
>>8640006
What book is this? For what course?
The drought in California is over. There's 20 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevadas and the reservoirs are refilling.
I guess the Chinese have given up on their scam.
Good bait bro.
Too bad the areas not around your little bubble are still drying out.
SAGE
>>8639963
Not an argument
>>8639963
Do you not understand how trade and commerce work? How many people do you think grow their own food you dumbshit?
Why are intelligent people so ugly and have bad hygiene?
Don't care for the frivolities of the life.
haha >Dick
>>8639466
Are you basing this claim on the 3 pixels you circled there ?
Is there a correlation between intellegence/abstract thinking and a feeling if detachment from reality?
I'm pretty detatched from reality but I can't do abstract thinking
No, especially when the latter is usually the result of drugs or brain trauma
>>8639007
Okay, then for argument's sake let's assume that there has been no trauma brought upon by physical or neurochemical methods.
Can exposure to various perspectives of our perceived reality bring upon a change to how we interpret our expirences? So much so that we become detached with reality?
Why entrance exams to engineering universities in Latin America are so difficult?
>>8638872
they aren't, they're super easy in general
it's only a first filter, then the also easy engineering classes like calc will filter more than half of them
>>8638872
t. latino who didn't pass
>>8638886
/thread
If evolution exists, then why do wolves still exist?
>>8638679
Wolves exist because they didn't die out yet.
>>8638679
Because wolves are better at surviving in wild while dogs are better at surviving with humans in human settlements. They both have different habitats and therefore don't have to compete with each other. The better species cause the extinction of similar weaker species when they compete with each other and that is possible only when they share same habitat which is not the case with dogs and wolves.
>>8638679
WHAT THE FUCK
Holy shit, abbos are ugly as fuck.
Are these things even human?
Real question, /sci/
What's your favorite distribution?
I like the gamma distribution. Look at it.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
Cauchy u fucking plebian
>>8637975
I don't trust a distribution with no mean.
https://www.strawpoll.me/12222903
Let me know if I missed any.
>>8637259
Mathematical physics always seems like a vaguely defined field. Like I do Algebraic Geometry, but my work is always motivated by physics.
>>8637259
>engineering
>pure
>philosophy
>most unpure
Can there be or possible be out there a virus, or some other sort of pathogin, that attacks other viruses? Buy hijacking their structure.
Virusus have DNA like cells do, if viruses hijack DNA, then the key ingredient is shared, so its possible.
can a virus get 'sick'?
>>8637243
Yeah why not I think they're called virofages
Google "antigenic shift viruses"
It's why we need a yearly flu shot instead of just one every decade to account for random mutations
Are you retarded? First: a virus is a RNA + protein shell. Ist reproduces by injecting its RNA into a specific cell or sometimes bacteria for which its protein shell is build.
Second: It doesn't do or is anything else.
Thats like asking if a battery can get sick.