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Anyone else in a Ph.D program here?
I feel like the life is being sucked directly out of my bones.
How do I stop that?
Your work is your life
>>7709685
But is that life?
>>7709669
I'm in a PhD program, it's only first year though.
I am getting terrified of all the shit I read like this OP, but I don't know how reliable these complaints are
So, it's american education/academia a joke?
From the text selected I can tell this article isn't serious.
An italicized bold red haha
tfw I go there
>>7709035
Apparently an american PHD kicks the shit out of those in europe.
Why do people look down on drug use?
Aren't drugs good for your overall performance? Don't they make you smarter and generally produce no side effects as long as you don't get too hooked or overdose?
Addiction isn't even a disease.
https://julianbuchanan.wordpress.com/blogs-2/
>>7706845
>Why do people look down on drug use?
Societal delusion and a perception of life destroying side effects. While destroying people's lives to prevent this self harm and perceived collateral damage to their families and those around them.....
And all the whole guzzling down caffeine to a point where you can't stop without pounding headaches. How coherent, and certainly not disjointed in any capacity.
>>7706845
Why don't you go shoot up for literally 3 days in a row, just once a day, then get back to me on why it's looked down upon
>>7706852
But I'm talking about moderation though, did you read that link?
Study Tips Summary
Part of a 10 page series with works cited--bretty interesting brehs
>>7706499
This is pretty much how I study shit I really need to know.
I either stand in front of my white board, and give a lecture to my imaginary class, but usually I've just been making flashcards and using them throughout the semester. Making my time spent cramming almost non-existent.
So they recommend studying different subjects/courses per day. Seems kind of weird to me as when you get started on a homework/project it would make sense to continue until you are done, as you have everything in your short term memory.
>>7706588
I think they want to highlight that utilizing your short-term memory can make you feel like you understand something more than you actually do.
Nowadays, it takes a student at least five years of university to learn enough about Mathematics to engage in research.
Do you think there will come a time where research has advanced so far that it would take one ten or twenty years to get to the necessary level of knowledge?
Once there is so much information even in one specific branch of mathematics that it takes a whole lifetime to understand it, progress is no longer possible.
Do you think that will ever happen?
>>7703866
Evolution baby.
no. It will become more like Object Oriented Programming on .NET
You will use an algorithm or a rule that someone else has written or deducted without needing to know how that algorithm works
>>7703866
In the past people were mathematicians, physicists, musicians, politicians and philosophers all at the same time.
Nowadays you can only be one of those, say, mathematician. But you will know geometry, calculus, analysis, topology, graph theory. etc.
In the future there will only be geometrologists, analysists, topologists, graph theorists, etc.
ITT we discuss Elon "the SUICIDE WATCH" Musketeer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P8UKBAOfGo
>>7673855
He was based that interview though
>>7673923
>Show is called sixty minutes.
>First reply is forty minutes later.
Is there a meming afoot?
>>7673855
You can actually pinpoint the exact moment his heart breaks in half.
How are your math skills? Can you solve pic related? Or are your math skills limited to setting up statics problems and then solving them using a calculator and/or Excel?
>zombies can only spread if two blocks NESW are infected
>outbreak begins diagonally with no touching blocks
so nothing happens
great problem m8
>>7715104
Suppose n = 8
The diagonal
A1, B2, C3, D4, E5, F6, G7, H8 is infected (8 blocks)
Then B1 has adjacent blocks A1 and B2 infected so becomes infected, C2 has adjacent blocks B2 and C3 infected so becomes infected, etc.
>>7715082
No. Consider the case of n=2. Then only 1 block starts out infested and by definition this cannot spread. Consider the case of n=3 then only two blocks can start out infested. If they are diagonal then they fill a 2 by 2 block and stop. If they are on opposite sides of a then they fill that block and stop. So the conjecture is false. Next time word your question better.
don't know if this is the right board for this- maybe should be in /diy/?
Ohm's Law help?
if i have a wire of (x) length coiled into (y) number of wraps, i'll have an impedance (z)
if i add a second identical wire of (x) length and parallel coil the two wires into (y) number of wraps, i'll have an impedance (0.5z)?
now if i cut the length of the wires to (0.5x) and parallel coil the two wires into (y) number of wraps, i'll have an impedance (0.25z)?
bump
>>7714839
Does the impedance has something to do with wire's length?
plz, i'm considering taking the problem to /b/ and just watching the poop-show into which the thread will degenerate
Now that the semester is over, is it OK to email one of my professors to thank them and let them know that I appreciate their work, or would that be cheesy and gay?
One of my maths professors was really good and explained things in a way that made me "get it" that made my mathematical understanding vastly better, and I really enjoyed his course. Is this a common thing? Have you ever done it?
>>7714808
Extremely homosexual, but go for it.
Write it in a physical thank-you card, not a goddamn email, though. Jesus.
pretty cheesy and gay famdesu
but i doubt your professor will care
Just hope he doesn't get the wrong message and think you have a crush on him.
>>7714808
Just do whatever the fuck you want.
On a second thought, don't do it. You must be a very insecure and socially inept individual in order to ask something like that. You'll end up writing something extremely cringe and your professor shouldn't have deal with that.
If you had two sonic charges and dropped them underwater, and they went off simultaneously, how harmful could that be to something in the water? Not from /sci/, asking on behalf of /tg/. How would the size of the charge affect things? They aren't big charges, probably about the size of your standard bauble.
what the fuck is a 'sonic charge'
>>7714597
Some kind of small bomb that when it explodes emits a huge amount of noise, basically. Also called a seismic charge. Like I said, I'm from /tg/ and not /sci/, so I'm guessing stuff like this likely dwells entirely within the realm of fantasy. Basically a shockwave/pulse bomb.
>>7714597
>Basically a shockwave/pulse bomb.
you mean a bomb?
If you flung a freshly deceased human corpse on the surface of the moon and left it there, would it decay?
>>7714515
decay/decompose I mean
>>7714515
for awhile but then it'd stop.
>>7714515
the radiation kills bacteria, so no it would not decompose, only dry out and freeze, similar to mummies found in the Andes.
i know this is probably based on which uni, but i'm so desperate for insight. how do scholarships work? if you enter a program with a low gpa, but then boost it back up through the first semester past the eligibility mark for a scholarship, is it possible to apply even though you are already admitted? mine is low because i fucked up an exam in calculus but i had a high average beforehand, and i know i can bring it up if i do an additional course, but right now i want to attend the program when i know i've been accepted instead of risking rejection when i retry.
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chamberless blimp
>>7714482
These pictures make me laugh.
>>7714637
Why is /sci/ so contrarian?
>"Going to Mars is pointless!"
>"Going to Venus is retarded!"
>"There are no aliens on Europa!"
>"Fusion power is 100 years away!"
>"Flying cars will never happen!"
>"Climate change doesn't exist!"
>>7714033
>Implying we aren't right.
>>7714033
They're hardly contrarian opinions. In fact, it's quite common for people to hold those views.
Now....get the fuck out....idiot.
Because they find popsci hype obnoxious and so get retarded in the oppisite direction, and also because they're terrible autists who love feeling like they're smarter than someone else.
That is why.
Is Medicine fuckin STEM master race now? It seems nobody wants to be involved with anything other than Medicine
>>7713784
Medicine isn't a STEM field moron. Learn what STEM actually means.
The 'M' is for medicine, of couse.
>>7713786
Isn't medicine a part of science? Then what is it? Art?
Why do humans naturally segregated themselves based on appearance/race?
It seems to be the case in closed environments like schools and prisons.
>>7713639
segregation into groups of people like yourself is natural
if you had the choice to be trapped in a room with either a complete stranger or an anon from /sci/ i think most people would choose the random stranger from /sci/ - at least you have one thing in common, you might have other things or be similar to that person.
people of the same race is the most apparent similarity there is - these people look similar to you
>>7713647
> complete stranger or an anon from /sci/ i think most people would choose the random stranger from /sci/
I'd stay the hell away from the anon from /sci/ desu
>>7713650
ugh ok fine lemme use a different analogy
would you rather be trapped in an elevator with a random person from your university or a random 46 year old man from pakistan
