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Living things are mostly water: H2O.
When they get buried, they become hydrocarbons. But coal and oil don't have O atoms. Where does the Oxygen from the water go?
>>7909489
>When they get buried, they become hydrocarbons. But coal and oil don't have O atoms. Where does the Oxygen from the water go?
kill yourself you stupid troll.
I assume it would evaporate or leave the body during decomposition.
>>7909489
I'm not sure what you think coal is, but I've included a partial structure here for you with source
study CS because im interested in how a computer works and I want to learn about the challenges in the field at the moment.
All the other people:
> I want to make an app and get rich
> I want to be video game programmer
> I dont care about anything just tell me how I earn money as a Codemonkey
> Im an autist sperg thats actually interested but I have an IQ of 80 and/or Im a Social outcast
> Im fat and I dont know...
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You forgot me, smart but lazy.
CS is popular, has perspective and is viewed by many as the road to the money, therefore it will be plagued by retards.
On the bright side, once you get to the grad school, you will meet more likeminded people, who are actually knowledgeable in the field and not cancerous.
>>7909306
valid points all
but why do you care?
What do you guys think about having the ability to choose your own offspring's characteristics. For example: eye colour, hair colour, muscle fibres, etc.
>>7909166
It should be a human right, for those that can afford it of course.
>>7909166
I'm upset that future generations will be so smart that they'll effectively make us obsolete. But I recognise that it's inevitable and that a smarter human population overall is actually a good thing.
>>7909166
It would be so much better than now. People are afraid because they subconsciously think that you wouldn't let your child have the "choice" to be born like nature would have wanted to (?). This is quite clearly absolutely retarded, and I don't think that people that come into this world stupid, ugly and prone to diseases are happy because of le nature meme.
It would lower sufference and therefore hate between humans (but everyone should be able to do it; if it's only for the rich than...
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Hey sci, so i found out today that i suck at math in general. I'm planning to restart learning from the beginning. Thinking about doing all the khan exercises and watch youtube videos. So here's the question. I've read all the sci wiki which explains good math book for calculus and beyond. But honestly it's too overwhelming. So many books to choose from and i cant seem to pin point on the right one. Which book do you recommend for calculus?
>>7908955
>Intro
"The Manga Guide to Calculus" by Hiroyuki Kojima and Shin Togami
"Calculus Made Easy" by Silvanus Thompson and Martin Gardner
>Weak Students
"Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach" (Dover) by Morris Kline
"Calculus With Analytic Geometry" by George Simmons
"Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach" by Jerome Keisler (Uses infinitesimals)
"A First Course in Calculus"...
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>>7908955
Brainlet. Get out of my higher education REEEEEEEEEEE
If your struggling with the mechanics of it, watch Patrickjmt videos on YouTube on the stuff you need help with
Also do all of your homework. Change the numbers around. Change your trig functions from sin to cos or something. Test yourself. Get the pattern of finding a derivative.
Understanding the mechanics of it will get you far enough to pass the class. That's all. If you want to ace it, you're going to have to read your textbook and the books that the other guy above recommended.
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I had an argument with a fellow researcher recently on whether music is a worthwhile field to pursue and whether universities should be allocating budgets in this fields direction.
His argument was that music is extremely important to society in many aspects including but not limited to communication, and is on par with theater and literature and so studying it to improve music pieces is beneficial to society.
I'd like to hear your thoughts about this subject, your field and any other related background would be appreciated.
>>7908221
You can certainly argue that if literature gets a department, music should get something.
it should be seperated in music theory and 'applied music' at least like art and art history are seperated.
come to think graphicdesign could be considered art theory but I guess noone bothered to make this connection
>>7908221
If fucking women studies and all of that useless crap gets their own respective departments, music should, too. Music theory is definitely not something you can entirely learn overnight.
What happens if you collide a black hole with an anti-matter black hole?
>>7907235
Holy shit that is an interesting question.
>>7907235
it's called interracial scissoring
>>7907235
Is a black hole even made out of matter? What are made of?
What if the matter collapses into itself to the point you can't distinguish the elementary particles? I mean, sure we can't do it anyway, but what if matter and antimatter stop differing in a fundamental way?
If not, the it's going to be a clusterfuck of insane size, considering how much energy releases the particle-antiparticle annihilation, and the masses of black holes
What does /sci/ think of Dentistry?
>>7906977
Q: What did the dentist see at the North Pole?
A: A molar bear
>>7906977
>falling for the denatal jew meme
WEW LAD
What are /sci/'s thoughts on state schools?
It's a familiar argument. Could it be better to go to a state school and bust out an engineering degree for 20k a year than to go to a university for 2-3x the dough, but have research opportunities and generally smarter peers? It's a question that still bothers me. I'm in California where there are some pretty good state schools (pic related) but even then, a state school is a state school.
I'd appreciate your input.
>>7906752
Picture is cal poly slo, if anyone's wondering.
>>7906752
I'm in CA as well and I'm going to assume by "state schools" you mean Cal States and not the UC system which has many top engineering programs.
I think a lot of this depends on how well the programs are regarded. Most Cal States aren't particularly impressive but SLO for instance has a good reputation in some engineering fields.
I definitely fall into the camp that thinks the quality of your peers can be hugely important and the UC's can have a big advantage here, this...
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>>7906752
Why in America everyone must live in the school?
Ok. I was just thinking. What do you think would happen inside the mind of a psychopath if they became self aware of their psychopathy at a young age. The appropriate term for a child would be callous unemotional but you get my point. What if some how a teenager(let's say 14) becomes aware that they are different and figure out they are callous unemotional. What do you think they would do? Would they think of it as cool or beneficial and try to further their skills or would they become confused as to why they are that way and develope a longing for an emotional connection?...
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>>7906333
gg life
>>7906333
>le hey 4chan I'm like totally a psychopath xD meme
you tried
Most psychopaths are aware of their condition, they just don't care and see it as an advantage. The smart ones learn how to hide it and act normal.
If they long for emotional connection then they were never psychopathic in the first place.
> When you go on a speculative evolution board for shits and giggles, and someone actually thinks it'd be possible for an organism to evolve sonar powerful enough to pulverize rock.
What is the dumbest side-branch in science /sci/?
saging
if you want to imply such basic shit is impossible, idk what to say
>>7905985
So it's like, a lazier version of crystal science?
>>7905980
>shits and giggles
urban redneck retard detected
Hey /sci/, so I found a bottle of mercury in my physics classroom and i touched it with my pencil. Then I touched the same pencil with my fingers.
Am I going to die?
>>7904275
go to the ER moron
Isn't mercury just very heavy, it's not poisonous, nothing bad would happen if it just touched my skin, right?
the vapor is super toxic, touching it without gloves isn't recommended, but it absorbs really slowly into the skin, you'll be k
Also touching your pencil should be aight
If you are or want to be (like me) an AI researcher: How do you avoid getting v& by the Turing agency?
inb4 there is none
>2045
>shiggidy
AI is a red herring and a double-trap, with some benefits.
Use with caution.
>>7904025
Please elaborate. Why red herring? What do you mean by double-trap?
>I-I'm not a robot
>>7904000
Nice trips, and honestly improvements in Big Data, as well as the mass adoption of it's usage, will probably be nearly as helpful for society without any of the (already infinitesimal) risk.
Also, what do you think of tensor flow?
Why do Children and Teens with high IQs often do bad in school and standardized tests?
[citation needed]
They don't.
>ITT a salty OP with an IQ of 110
What does /sci/ think about Mr. Demis, the guy who claimed he'll solve intelligence in his lifetime?
>chess prodigy, master standard at the age of 13 with an Elo rating of 2300
>created theme park and other games before going to university
>graduate with a double first from cambridge CS course
>PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London
>creator of DeepMind and AlphaGo
>won...
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>>7900175
If he was really smart, he would of studied math and wouldn't be wasting his time with games. You didn't even post his IQ. Maybe because it's too low?
>>7900183
kek
>>7900175
if he's so smart, why isn't he the richest man on earth?
OK, Hearthstone.
Lets say my deck has all 30 different cards.
How do I calculate my chance to draw a specific card after I tried drawing it for X amount of times?
For example, what is my chance to draw a specific card After I have been trying to draw it for the past 14 draws and each time I draw a card I obviously discard it.
>>7905264
cmon how old are you ?
the chance is 1 / n
n = cards in your deck
>>7905274
No.
>>7905274
assuming he only runs 1 of the card
