Dumb Shit People Say in College

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>>8851257
>is char a bit or a byte long
I know this is wrong but I forget why
>steve jobs
>world class programmer
I'm an Android amongst a family of Apple users. I love my family but god damn

>>8851257
If I start listing all the shit ive heard we will be here for two days.

>300k starting

>>8851266
if you "forgot why" then you don't know what a bit is or you're too fucking lazy to think for 2 seconds why a char could not fit in a fucking bit

>>8851257
so scotland ISN'T part of england?

>>8851272
Oh shit that's right, I remember now. Sorry about that famalam

>>8851266
>>is char a bit or a byte long
>I know this is wrong but I forget why
It is wrong because there are more than 2^1 characters in the English alphabet alone, let alone all the special characters.

>>8851257
>This was worth it

protip: it never is unless someone, be it the school, government, or family members, is paying you to go

>>8851273
It's part of the United Kingdom. Scotland and England are two separate entities.

>>8851273
It's part of the UK. The distinction only matters to britbongs, as they are all genetically the same.

>>8851287
>>8851290
so arbitrary

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>>8851273
>top-left
English flag

>second from top on the left
Scottish flag

>right
UK flag

>>8851301
I'm assuming the others are Wales and Ireland.

scotish fag detected. How does it feel that all your history is reduced to being England's cuckboi.

>>8851257
I work in a tutoring center. People can't even, given time, figure out which fraction is bigger than another. Some woman comes in and asks why she's going to need to learn exponent rules since she's going to be teaching second graders. Almost always the dumbest comments come from people who are going to be teaching primary schools. I don't think that makes them dumber than the others, but they're just the right amount of dumb to be proud and protective of their ignorance.

>>8851292
>>8851273
Please kill yourself. This like saying California is part of Texas.

>>8851328
>This like saying California is part of Texas

Not really, a closer parallel would be like saying Puerto Rico is part of the United States.

>>8851318
>>>/pol/

>>8851381
its tru tho. I bet you grow a gay orange beard and thinking you're so manly but you're just a kukboi sucking british kuk

>>8851391
Your sense of superiority does not allow you to be factually wrong.

The word 'England' has always been used to refer also to the United Kingdom, only more recently has this fallen out of fashion. Scotland /is/ a part of England, so long as you're not worried about offending any Scots.

>>8851319
Tell them that a bright student might ask a question about something ahead of the curriculum and not knowing the answer would be an embarrassment.

>let [math]x\in\mathbb{R}[/math]
also, this was a lecturer, kek

>>8851455
>>let x be a real number
I see no issue here.

>>8851319
Yeah, i can confirm the mental retardation of people studying to be primary school teachers.
I have a few friends in this field, most of them repeated at least two years between high school and uni graduation.
The most extreme case i know is a guy who repeated his first college year 3 times, then repeated his second year 2 times, all because he couldn't pass math classes (it's like calc I and calc I advanced, basically what you did in HS).
I think it's because they're all about "muh feelings" like liberal art students, but they actually have to takes STEM courses.

>Matlab is nice

>>8851455
Care to elaborate?

>>8851561
Don't you fucking edgelord me and say numpy is better, truth to be told there is no programming language which handles scientific computation particularly nice.

>>8851562

Not me, but "Take [math]x \in \mathbb{R}[/math]" is better.

Let * be *
Take * in *

>>8851592
What difference does it make?

The kidneys filter kidney stones

When asked if people believe the moon influences your mood half the class raised their hand in intro to psychology

>>8851578
quoting rick and morty has reached critical meme capacity but the sentiment is true. art and science are closely similar endeavors

>>8851608
dumb

>>8851573
What about Lisp or Haskell? Matlab could have been a Python library for all anybody cares.

>>8851645
For your average physicist Haskell or Lisp is not an option. In my experience only CS students and mathematicans inclined towards CS bothers with haskell. Lisp is declining

>>8851608
>The kidneys filter kidney stones
Red pill me on kidney stones, /sci/.

>When asked if people believe the moon influences your mood half the class raised their hand in intro to psychology
Has anyone done studies on the influence of light equivalent to that reflected by the moon or tidal forces on behavior?

>>8851598

It makes your proof read better, because it's better English.

>>8851273
No?

>>8851290
That's not true whatsoever, you fucking brainlet.
Don't spread misinformation on a board that's intended for the discussion of the sciences.

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>>8851257
>be me, student at elite school
>two athletes sit next to me in cafeteria
>first one says "I got accepted to that study abroad program in Shanghai!"
>second one replies "So you're going to Japan? That's so cool!"

True story

>>8851455
>Wildberger.jpg

>>8851319
>>8851548
Education majors a fucking joke. I know we like to shit on liberal arts majors, but at least they care about what they're studying.

>>8851888
Still you said it in the most reddit way possible.

>>8851282
>More than 2^1 characters

Yeah just about

>>8851888
>knowing exact geographic locations by heart is a sign of intelligence

Heard a girl say that climate change means we'll all need bigger air conditioners when the professor asked how the effects can be mitigated.

The look of pain on his face. I'll never forget it.

>>8852157
keeek

>>8851415
My algebra 1 teacher didn't know how to express a derivative
6th grade teacher didn't know basic trigonometry
5th grade teacher denied earth's temperature fluctuates

Now my networking and Web Development professor can't even fucking do a simple scp over a terminal

>>8851578
Most of the time science is a lot more science than pop-sci. A lot of people don't get that.

>>8852287
>Now my networking and Web Development professor can't even fucking do a simple scp over a terminal
wew

>>8851362
Puerto Rico is part of the United States. It's a tier 3 state. California, and New York are tier 1 states, followed by tier 2 places like Maine or Arizona, followed by tier 3 states like Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Last are tier 4 states like Iraq and Afghanistan.

>>8852340
To be fair she's female, new, and only has, a bachelor's. Idk why they hired her. Probably to meet their girl power quota because she was instantly put in charge of female stem recruitment

>>8852344
Where do you get these tiers from

>>8852349
This is common knowledge anon.

1 Most population and most economic productivity
2 Moderate education and productivity
3 Oddball acquisitions
4 Hellholes we obtained for natural resources, general expansion

>>8852358
I was able to gather what the tiers entailed, I was wondering what textbook you were reading

>>8851455
>>8851532
>>8851562
>>8851592
>>8851598

You should always say assume x belongs to the reals.

If you let,choose,fix etc... and then you want to show a contradiction, it doesn't flow well. How can you let x belong to the empty set, for example.

When you assume x belongs to the empty set and you get your contradiction that no member belongs, then you say your assumption is wrong. Therfore x isn't in the empty set. You can't say that if you let.

Head of the math department docks people for letting things.

I'm a TA and had to give an introduction to fluid mechanics and all of these questions were asked by the same girl on the same class:
After using the plungers example to explain Pascal's Law
>does it [Pascal's Law] hold for square plungers?
After telling them about Pascal's barrel
>why didn't the tube break?
After solving a problem about figuring out the density of a piece of metal
>are you sure the answer isn't a negative number?
After asking them to integrate a function of the form Cx^a+Kx^b
>do we need to use u-substitution?
After I jokingly told them I was a philosophy student when someone commented on my waist-long hair (I'm not proud of it)
>how did you wind up being a physics TA, then?

About a week after that class, I had surgery and never got to see the group again but I imagine the guy who replaced me had a lot of fun.

>>8852492
>surgery
Was it brain surgery after having been exposed to that stupidity?

>>8851305
Northern ireland

>>8851608
The moon influences my mood since it's hot as balls right now and it makes me glad to see it.

>>8852370
I think you're the only person in this thread who assumed the context was a proof by contradiction.

>>8851608
Well to be fair, if you think the moon affects your moon then it probably does, by placebo.

>>8851292

Scotland and England are seperate countries and always have been. Even since the Roman times. In 1707 they chose to join the United Kingdom and be ruled by the UK government while retaining their own parliment. How is that arbitrary?

>>8851328
>This like saying California is part of Texas.
What, you mean it's not?
Britbong here

>>8852676
Placebo is a selective reporting bias and not an actual psychosomatic effect you popsci brainlet

>>8852670
I didn't assume it was a contradiction, but in general, you don't know for sure if you'll find one or not.

>>8851662
>tfw no monoid endofunctor gf

>>8852344
>California, and New York are tier 1 states
Authoritarian scum detected.

>>8851867
[citation needed]
Everyone on those two islands descends from celtics who were cucked by vikangz.

>>8851273
It is. Don't listen to scotfags.

>>8852017
Yes, knowing Shanghai from Japan when older than ten IS a sign of intelligence.
It's like knowing Paris from England.

>>8851282
actually 2^0

>>8853327
retard

>>8851292
>>8851290
This is like saying [math]\forall (a,b,c,d) \in \mathbb{R}, [a,b] \subset [c,d][/math], which is stupid.

>>8853568
What's the capital of Berlin?

>>8852017
how is it any different from the rest of the posts in this thread, like knowing the difference between a bit and a byte, or whether scotland is part of england?

>>8853743
Honolulu

>>8851257
>>Is a char a bit or a byte long?
If this were a YLYL, I lost already

>>8853794
>If this were a YLYL, I lost already
>tfw you realize that people who ask this question are actually visionaries and innovators who dream of a world where our language has only two symbols.

How does it feel to be an unenlightened brainlet?

>>8852735
It's both, since for actual biochemical events, you can measure the effect

>>8851305
Wales and Northern Ireland yes. The one with the red dragon is Wales.

>>8851301
>UK flag doesn't have a kickass dragon
Shame

>>8851301
I feel like Wales got fucking shafted with this design

>>8851645
A friend of mine tried making some neural network stuff in Haskell. It was neither pretty nor fast.
Haskell is great, but not for computational stuff.

>>8851266
>people are actually this stupid

>>8852628
Nope. Appendicitis.