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What is your opinion on Osteopathy? Is it pseudoscience? How do you feel about getting D.O. vs an M.D.?
Depends what you want from it. DO's should be well trained in medicine. Opinions may vary, and I don't give a fuck so don't argue me on this point.
But if you want someone who practices hands-on musculo-skeletal therapy, an osteopath who specializes in that is the best physical therapist you will find, by a very big margin.
you will think its shit - until you get a really bad back. (There are good and bad practitioners btw).
>>7934989
gets a bad wrap but a DO can even become a surgeon or even chief medical staff
Does anyone else want to be a polymath? I want to gain mastery in EE, physics, mathematics, chemistry, NE, fucking all that shit lmao
>>7934889
all French engineers are polymaths, or can easily be, for those who aren't already.
better start studying now.
>>7934889
Isnt that the end goal of seeking as much knowledge tho?
>>7934889
You will find all that you learn has brought you only closer to death. Stop caring for worldly things and focus on your LORD Christ Jesus. The end is near, why waste it on retarded ineffective subjects?
Theology and theocracy are the only ways to go, in Jesus name.
Amen
When Tesla did speak with the villagers about the radio magnetic waves and electronics, they were like:
>Lol, Niki lost his mind
>Muuuhh invisible energy fag
>TITS OR GTFO
100 years from then now we know what he was speaking about. So, /sci/, what are the foolish stuff people are talking about and the modern villagers laughing about?
Aliens? Telepathic energy? What?
pic semi-related
Vortex-based mathematics
by definition, we wont know.
>>7934863
Some explanations, Anon?
Have any of you ever used your math and science knowledge in real life situations that didn't involve passing an exam or showing off your ego to low IQ plebs?
Be honest.
Yes. A number of times.
Not as often as I would like but almost every day. Calculus beyond the first half of second course was not though. Yet.
>showing off your ego to low IQ plebs
Do people seriously do that, i mean that's real pathetic.
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Hi, can someone help me get a bit of an intuition on conditional probability?
My confusion arises from this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpwSGsb-rTs
Problem in the video:
You eat a poisonous mushroom, the antidote is to lick a species of frog, only the females give the antidote and Male frogs have a distinctive croaking sound. In front of you, you see a frog and do not know it's gender behind you, you hear the croak of a male frog, looking you see two frogs but don't know which made the noise.
Should you:
A: Lick the lone frog
B:...
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>>7933830
>But, suppose we were in the same situation but this time we see which of the two frogs croaked. In this case we lick one of the frogs knowing the other is male and only have 50% chance of living?
the croaking does not tell you the sex of the second frog.
croacking= male = news that you already know
>>7933852
I just meant, if we saw which of the two frogs croaked, say the second one. We'd then lick the first frog only. The chance of this frog being female is then 50% (It can only be male or female and is independent of the other frog?)
But, why would seeing which of the two frogs croaked lower our survival rate from around 67% to 50%.
>Going around and licking frogs
What the hell is wrong with you?
How do I build up skills in explanation and deduction of certain effects in Physics with minimal time, its not something I can just memorise, and don't have a lot of time to sit down 8 hours and work, how do I maximise gain in skill based ability? A level physics here.
>>7933716
write shit down
not type, write with a pencil and your hand
and make sure you think about what you're writing down, if you don't understand something there's no point writing it down (unless it's explicitly something you don't need to understand)
this works for me, but people are different so it might not work for you. It depends what "style" learner you are.
>>7933716
>A level physics here.
Do problems. Lots of problems. It might help you more if you get a friend to do them as well then come together and both talk about how you arrived at your answers.
>>7933716
Bump
Aspiring geologist here
Is geology a meme science?
Do you guys consider it a hard science like physics?
>>7933126
It's rock hard
>>7933133
I'm rock hard
>>7933138
Ur mum is rock hard
Who /chem here?
Walking back and forth between the separate parts of the building sure is fun!
>>7932591
Organic chemistry masterrace!
>>7932591
Comp chem here. I don't walk...
>>7932614
Indeed!
Enamine trainee here
Books to learn a topic sufficiently to move onto another that builds from it.
Start with a calculus one then linear algebra (list prereqs) I will start with one that needs just your willingness and a 10th grade education
>>7932577
>10th grade education
>tfw
>>7932577
here's a list for shitty garbage mathematics:
Morris Klein Calculus an intuitive and physical approach -> Spivaks Calculus -> Apostol's Mathematical Analysis -> Conway's Complex Analysis -> Aliprantis and Burkinshaw's Principles of Real Analysis (which is really a measure theory book) -> Kolmogrov and Formin's Introduction to Real Analysis (which is really a functional analysis book and should be pretty piss easy at this point)
congratulations, now you know the...
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>>7932577
For Linear Algebra you only need to know how to write a proof to read Hoffman and Kunze which will teach you all the LA you need for abstract algebra and applied stuff. After taking at least ring and module theory, Roman's Advanced Linear Algebra has everything you'd need to do pretty much anything in, say, Algebra or Combinatorics.
A friend and I had a discussion:
who is better overall,
Lagrange (her opinion)
or
Euler (my opinion)
??
Take everything they've ever done into account.
>>7932277
>comparing euler anyone lesser than gauss
euler wins always, he is the best and most productive mathematician ever lived.
>>7932292
...right after Gauß.
>>7932311
[citation needed]
If A ⊆ B and B ⊆ C then A ⊆ C.
Can anyone give a formal proof for it.
>>7931318
Anyone who understands what those symbols mean should be able to give a formal proof.
Take x in A, then x is in B, then x is in C, qed
>>7931318
You need to assume transitivity
That's it
what measures time?
>>7936703
This explains it,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvpbW7JRu0Q
Time can only be measured relative to something else.
Observers
if every pound we send to space costs tens of thousands of dollars, why don't we send emaciated astronauts instead of strong, muscular ones?
at least put some effort into trolling
>>7936470
no, it's an honest question.
>>7936466
Every time we fire a rocket into space atleast one bird will die.
Is scientific progress worth the cost in life ?
0^0=1 prove me wrong
also
0/0 = 1
>>7936417
0^n=1
n=1
0^1 != n
qed
>>7936430
>winrar
So, /sci/. what are your unpopular opinions? Also, please post your reasoning behind the belief.
One of mine is related to psychiatry (inb4 not a science). Being logical people of science, if you disagree with something, you gotta PROVE it. You can't just go around making ridiculous claims. That is what religious bigots do.
I believe transvestism is a psychiatric illness, or at least a clinical manifestation of one.
My argument:
1. Delusions are idiosyncratic beliefs or impressions that are firmly maintained, despite being contradicted by what...
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But the argument isn't whether it is a delusion, but whether it affects their ability to function in society or harm themselves. Of course your wolf-kin furry loving self is a complete delusion, no one is going to rewrite you into a different genome because you say so; but if your a productive, social, employed wolf-kin furry loving tax payer, why would anyone consider it an illness?
>>7936400
>00 get
What I mean is that they this individual is actually trying to be a wolf. He wants to go out into the wild, run around on all fours and attempt to hunt deer with his bare hands and mouth.
You've made your point about functioning in society, but that doesn't address the illness for being what it is. Regardless of they can function in society or not doesn't change the fact they have this illness.
See John Nash for example. Sure it took him...
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>>7936384
Transvestites don't actually believe they are a different biological sex, retard. They believe their biological sex is the "wrong" one. Whether or not you believe it's a sign of mental illness to believe your biological sex is incorrect is a different story, but there's no way to prove whether such a belief is delusional because it's inherently subjective.
It's not like they think "I'm a biological female" when they have a penis, they think "Even though...
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