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I just have to fucking vent.
I am so fucking sick and tired of this.
I am sick of the retarded shitposting (not the funny shitposting, but the shitposting done by brain dead imbeciles who are too stupid to realize they are shitposting), I am sick of the /pol/-threads and I am sick of mods deleting good threads (I remember a funny inorganic vs organic chemistry thread a few weeks ago that got deleted spontaneously for no reason).
IS THERE NOTHING WE CAN FUCKING DO ABOUT THIS CRAP?
>>7967970
Report and hide.
I asked what tensor calculus was useful for yesterday and some retards named a couple of vague ass examples that just used numpy's ndarray
>shitposting done by brain dead imbeciles who are too stupid to realize they are shitposting
If only high-quality people wanted to waste their lives putting high-effort posts on an anonymous image board! The target audience for 4chan are children and degenerates, and nothing is going to change that.
I got my test back and received this grade. I got marked off six points because I did not know definitions and terms. I feel that after two test, Chemistry 101 is nothing more than a memorization class at the level of a History class. To the chemistry majors out there, why did you pick Chemistry as a major? I know that I am barely in a Chemistry 101 class, so maybe there is actual learning in farther classes. Though, my major of computer engineering only needs Chemistry 101, so I will not see those classes.
Because the world needs chemists.
Bear with it, as it should get more hands on.
I'm happy for you, my chemistry 101 was pure cancer and there is no way you could plug and chug through it, you actually had to know what was happening.
I barely passed
>>7965798
Kek senpai my linear algebra tests had like 30% of credit from definitions.
If you don't know the lingo you can't participate in the world of the class.
why do homosexuals exist in nature in the ratios they do? I can understand bisexuality, heterosexuality, and most/all of the less common sexualities, but my current understanding of the literature doesn't really explain homosexuality.
>>7965553
homosexuals don't exist
like pedophiles, they're just mentally ill people who need serious rehab or execution
>>7965561
>serious execution
>as opposed to lighthearted execution
>>7965561
>citation needed
Not sure if you guys are actually intelligent or just trolling.
http://www.cerebrals.org/jcti/index.html
Take that test and post your reasoning index score here, mine is 120.
Don't forget to screencap.
Pic unrelated.
>>7965499
How many questions are there?
Time limit?
>Test is about pattern matching
>The average score is 100
>5% has 125+
>Most people are between 85-115
Hm, sounds oddly familiar. But it can't be IQ, the test says RIX
>>7965499
I'm not from /sci/ and I'm usually borderline retarded but here
>plot twist: I am currently studying STEM at Imperial College London
AMA
>>7962935
>biologists
embarrassing
but seriously your work ethic must fucking insane (unless you're going ot be one of the many dropouts).
>>7962935
What are you studying and how well are you doing?
>>7962935
>I am currently studying STEM at Imperial College London
Which subject?
Fellow imperialfag here
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>>7962580
Most basic jobs require basic math manipulation. Fucking hell the world is dumb, also that /pol/tard is trying yo get fucked by 4chin?
>>7962580
And then the SAME press publishes "Millenials are so unskilled! What happened?!?!" after removing most of math and woodcrafts classes and replacing them with "tolerance" and "white privilege" classes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On9X9ACvLbU
Is there a ninth planet out there?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/planet-nine-scientists-find-more-evidence-that-hidden-planet-is-sitting-at-the-edge-of-our-solar-a6954986.html
>Inb4 Pluto
There's plenty of planets out there
theres probably at least a dozen more substantial dwarf planets in the kuiper belt and maybe many more out in the Oort cloud floating around and perhaps a couple mars or earth sized bodies
its not really surprising
a lot of these bodies have very weak albedo and super long elliptical orbits
makes them hard to spot
>>7961838
/sci/ approved music.
Spergs of sci, let's share. What do you listen to when you are pretending to be extremely talented genius working on new great, brilliant and revolutionary discovery in math or your other [spoiler]worthless and shitty[/spoiler] field.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZISJqJbQuU
>>7960954
i've listened to beck since high school so I just autistically listen to the same albums from 2002 and onward when i do math.
>>7960954
I listen exclusively to anime music.
Best of all time is that song from tengen toppan gurren lagann when Simon becomes a man and beats Guame using the giga drill breaker.
If you listen to anything other than japanese music then I will tell you now, you will never achieve anything in science, not even in your life. You are a lost case.
Anything from jazz to classic to idm to hip hop.
Stupid questions that don't deserve their own thread.
I have to write a brief paper, 1200-1500 words, on the field of genetic enhancement. If you could pick three main things I should focus on what would they be? It seems like a massive field and it seems easy to get lost in it all - I'm mainly looking for the big points, it doesn't have to be rigorous.
>>7959768
How much we've "evolved" / devolved, our awareness of the human evolutionary process, and how we manipulate the eugenics of other species for amusing but twisted reasons.
>>7959768
First SQT thread I haven't seen get full of replies in no time.
Let us keep it that way.
>>7961238
Just wait tell the school week kicks back up in action.
Tried to watch DMT: The Spirit Molecule
Had to bail 5 minutes in when people started saying that because drugs get us high there is "meaning" and "purpose" behind the interaction
>>7957447
>DMT: The Spirit Molecule
>The Spirit Molecule
I would've skipped that shit entirely
>>7957447
Well, it certainly seems so to them, since the experience provided by DMT is unlike any other drug induced state.
>>7957460
Joe Rogan was in it so I figured I'd give it a shot
What happens when you smash two electrons together?
Scattering
>>7955035
Define "two electrons."
Hard mode: Use quantum field theory.
It's possible they could produce any lepton-antilepton pair at very high energies.
Most likely they just scatter though. A far more interesting question is what happens when you smash an electron and positron together.
<<<Pic related>>>
Prove me wrong /sci/
>ICL.
/thread
>>7954093
Incoming shitstorm, but he's not wrong
fuck off with your dumb threads you absolute mongoloid
Why the heck haven't we built a machine that can replicate itself? Why haven't we made a machine that can make a copy of itself from dirt? Or at the very least a machine that makes all of it's components except microchips from dirt?
What are the technical challenges to doing this?
Pic and link very related:
http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/
>>7953234
How would we stop it?
>>7953235
well if it can make everything except microchips, stop supplying it with microchips.
>>7953238
Well if that's the case, then what's the point?
What do you gain from having the robot make itself instead of some other robot doing the job?
I committed to Hunter College of the CUNY the other day. Do you guys know anything about how good their Physics program is? I was talking to one of their professors the other day and he mentioned that I would be able to do research with him and other professors starting my Freshman year so I'm feelin p hype.
Anybody here know anything?
>>7975816
its trash, you are trash
EVERYONE ON THIS BOARD IS TRASH
>>7975816
You won't be doing research in your freshman year topkek.
Unless by research they mean that they will make you hand in pointless investigations that amount to nothing else but google searches and a 2 hour laboratory.
If I was you I would feel worried because why would he feel the need to lie to you? That sounds sketchy as fuck.
>>7975840
It's a very small program- 30 people to a year, so I don't think it's lying so much as them needing/wanting more people to help them out.
![ECON2[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/APaCzdQ.gif "ECON2[1].gif")
How do we save economics?
I have read several papers each with individual theories on how to "harden" the dismal science.
>Some bs about measuring everything in calories
>waiting for the singularity and then just pumping variables into a computer forever
>giving up
None of these seem like good ideas. Why cant there exist and objective system for efficient use of resources?
>>7975031
We can't save economics as a field because people rarely buy or trade rationally while the field tends to pretend like they do.
Ignore all the economists who exist off of government funding or work in schools
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