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Why do normies like him so much?
He was mediocre
>>7980809
>normies
>mediocre
You answered your own question
>>7980809
What does it feel like to criticise people who've achieved more than you for being mediocre? And what does that make you?
>>7980820
mediocre comparatively to other scientific pioneers, the way people go on about him would make you think he was a cut above the rest, but he isn't'
43.4% of U.S. billionaires vs 33.8% of 30-millionaires are in the top 1% of cognitive ability:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/WaiLincoln_RightTailofWealth.pdf
>>7980792
How does one become a better thinker?
>>7980792
You're saying the majority of billionaires and 30-millionaires are brainlets?
>>7982314
DELETE THIS
If you walk toward a flat mirror at a speed of 3.2 meters per second, at what speed do you see your image moving toward you?
a. 3.2 meters per second
b. 0.6 meters per second
c. 6.4 meters per second
d. none of the above
According to the answer key, it's C, but I have no idea why. And fucking around in front of a real mirror isn't helping me understand either.
>>7980723
If you walk at 3.2 m/s, your image walks at -3.2 m/s, so relative to you, your image is moving towards you at (3.2 - (-3.2))m/s, or 6.4 m/s.
GODDAMN RACOON POSTERS GET OFF MUH BOARD
>>7980744
Ah. I was thinking in absolute terms measuring from the surface of the mirror. Ie the image is walking 3.2 towards the mirror.
Goddamn a lot of physics is about getting into the right frame of reference.
![DI_vecfield[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/9HniZQN.jpg "DI_vecfield[1].jpg")
Can /sci/ help me ?
Is there an easy application that generates vector field maps from Navier-Strokes simulations ? It usually represents directions and velocity with colors.
I'll post a few examples
![heatminer-vector-field-heatmap[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/gQMfgzp.png "heatminer-vector-field-heatmap[1].png")
>>7980713
From what navier stokes simulations?
>>7980713
Matplotlib feather.
Are the results of the simulation outputted as a matrix?
My prof posts things like these everyday for fun. I thought this one was interesting enough to share with you burgers.
>>7980540
>If I rephrase the Monty Hall problem, maybe people will think it's fresh bait!
Sorry, man, you can't just revive stale bait like that. Sure, you'll get bites, but they'll be the same boring nerdfights as usual.
>>7980549
The other one is different because you have already picked one.
>>7980549
I'm sure this thread is gonna get hundreds of replies, just like all the other monty hall threads.
/sci/ has really gone downhill.
What's the expected length of the union of 100 sets of 500 random integers with range 1 to 1000000?
Arguing about this at work.
>>7980329
[math]E[L]=\sum_il_ip(l_i)[/math]
Work out collisions between the lengths of all sets, then write a little program to do this little teensy sum and you'll have your answer.
>>7980329
Why are you saying union of? The union is just going to be a set of 50000 numbers from that range. Are you meaning length as in how many digits the number is expected to have? In that case, the expectation of the length is just
[math]50000E[L_{one\ number}][/math]
The expected number from the range (1, 1,000,000) is 500000.5. If we're going with integers the digit length is 6.
The answer to your question is then [math]6\cdot 50000=300000[/math]
>>7980347
The collisions are the hard part.
>>7980391
When I'm saying "union of", I mean the definition of the union operation in set theory. To clarify, each set of 500 numbers has no duplicates (it's a set). But there may be duplicates between sets. So when you combine all the sets, the total length will only be 50000 in the rare case that in 50000 trials not one duplicate was generated (the other extreme being each of the 100 sets being identical,...
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Any medical students here interested in making a skype group?
Leave your names and I'll add you :)
>>7980279
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If nothing can go faster than the speed of light, what happens if two objects moving the speed of light in opposite directions pass each other? Wouldn't they both be going twice the speed of light relative to each other?
>>7980131
:) yes
>>7980138
Did I just disprove Einstein then?
>>7980131
I just tried this with putting 2 flaslights towards eachother
Can confirm that it didnt go faster OP
What do you think of McKenna's TimeWave Zero theory?
Also what do you think of McKenna in general? I saw him as generally respectable although a bit biased when pushing some of that stoned ape stuff but this I-ching stuff sounds a bit loony
Dirty hippie
Kim is best waifu.
Long live Kim Waifu.
My sister says we shouldn't spend money on the space program that could be spent on economics and humanitarian stuff besides satellite-related activities. What are arguments I can use to prove her wrong?
you can't prove her wrong because that's an opinion
tell her that shes a fucking woman
Can I get help with resistivity of a copper wire
I set everything up exactly like the diagram and used 8 volts running onto the wire and a meter long copper wire. My multimeter measuring volts was placed in the exact same way in the diagram and measured .008 volts? Would this be correct?
If you're using copper wire you're gonna have a bad time because it has minuscule resistivity. The setup would only be useful for a constantan wire etc. If you really want to do it with copper you'll need to coil it in some way to get good results.
>>7979739
Thats what i figured. Im trying to prove it has the least resistivity. I also tested aluminum the same way and got .708 volts. Would the numbers im getting be acceptable?
>>7979716
what is your ammeter measuring?
