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Just got a job offer as a quant/strat at Goldman Sachs. I'm leaving academia. Am I a bad person if I take it?
>>7690043
You're not a bad person, just a weak person.
>>7690043
>>7690043
Curious, what is your background and qualifications? How difficult was it to find your way in? How much they paying?
If it's all just...space, then could I theoretically flip myself in any direction and still be in the natural accordance of things?
>>7690033
An astronaut said the best way to get your head round it is to know there is no down.
>>7690042
>not knowing that the enemy's gate is down
pleb
>>7690033
once you have a reference to something, you have a direction, pertaining to that reference.
How do I get better at math? I'm trying to make high marks on my ACT in order to transfer from my community college, but I keep getting questions incorrect on the practice tests. I barely listened in high school and didn't give a single shit about math. What do I do?? I've been studying for the past month so I have a pretty good basis... I have most problems with trig since I was never even introduced to that in hs.
nice clock ahmed
>>7689955
Leave this board, invent a time machine, and make your life not shitty
>>7689955
why do you need to do the ACT if you're transferring? That shit isn't required if you've done a certain amount (iirc about 1 and a half year's worth) of credits, what's your GPA anon?
So what do you guys feel about the JWST?
I think it's pretty cool how it could possibly tell us what exoplanets atmospheres are like (which could possibly show us a truly earth like planet)
It's basically hubble, but better.
Please dont blow up please dont blow up please dont blow up
>>7689847
>blows up
"Well boys, i guess we will have to wait a decade and a half because the NASA budget is abysmal"
>>7689831
honestly i love hexagons (my favorite shape) and i love that the JWST's mirror is going to be made of hexagons
obviously the science it will do is important, but i'm more distracted by how neat it looks
Why is science and mathematics considered "hard"? What makes it so challenging? Why do people need motivation just to try it? Why do people feel that it is physically and mentally draining to solve a maths problem or do a small project in physics class?
Science and mathematics aren't difficult unless you're exceptionally dumb. Pretty much anybody above 100 IQ can be proficient in their STEM field provided that they put the work in.
>>7689821
what a stupid answer
>>7689811
> Why is science and mathematics considered "hard"
Because they actually are "hard".
Most of what you learn in any STEM degree was, at some point in time, considered to be cutting edge research. The closer you get to present day knowledge, the more and more complex the topics tend to become. Once you get within the 50 year mark, shit starts to get pretty wild.
>neat
You'd better be fast though, otherwise its just going to fizzle.
>>7689801
>U-238
>Not U-235
>Not accounting for geometry
0/100.
but wouldnt you get cancer from holding it in your hands
If you could, what would you change about the Golden Record in modern times, and would you even send it off?
From a perspective of people in the 1970’s when the voyager was launched with the golden record, people were very excited about space and the possibility of extraterrestrial life, so NASA did it as more of a publicity stunt to fuel interest of space and aliens into the eyes of Americans. It was very necessary to launch it back then because it generated a lot of revenue for NASA, but in Today’s times, it would be very unnecessary knowing that even if aliens receive it 500 light years away(low) it would take over a thousand years to get the message.
The whole thing is pointless, better to let the Aliens find us
>>7689659
Draw a dick
Also, I bet aliens sould give a fuck about us since we are stupid and they belong in a larger spacs civilisation with over 10000 races. Pic related is alien face when
is this the right logic expression for the diagram:
((~A ∧ ~C ∧ B) v (B ∧ A ∧ C)
I know this board isn't for homework but i'll remove the post after someone checks my answer
yeah that's right
>>7689393
thanks. truth table is good too? just the setup of the columns.
>>7689398
no it's totally fucked
>tfw too stupid for math but too smart for anything else
Ima nanji desu ka?
Spa day.
>tfw stupid
Ftfy
youd make a good engineer.
What age did girls in caveman times probably start their periods?
>>7689231
they were older than today
>>7689231
Probably around 14-15.
>>7689231
18, same as today.
this is not a homework question, I'm just curious.
Lets say there is a definite integral from 0 to x of a function (t^3 - 2t + 3)dt
If that function is set equal to a constant, how does one go about solving for x?
>>7689202
Evaluate the integral you fucking nigger
>>7689202
You mean how does one go about solving for t? If the function equals a constant, there's no need to have an integral at all. If the integral is equal to a known constant, you evaluate the integral and solve for t.
>>7689271
Why its so hard to fall asleep and on top of that never feel rested.I tried almost everything even the 4-7-8 method which only made me feel a little bit relaxed but also had head ache in the morning because of it.
>>7689086
psychologist here. your sleeping-disorder is the consequence of your nagging feeling of inadequacy in relation to your micropenis, latent homosexuality, severe mental retardation, autism, poverty, fur-fetish, morbid obesity and general lack of good hygiene.
>>7689086
Try drinking in the hours before you go to bed. I do this on a daily basis and I never, ever have trouble falling asleep when I do so.
>taking algebraic topology
>doing exercises in hatcher
>look up something online because hatcher can't into definitions
>find someone named Tarun Chitra's solutions
>almost every one of them is wrong in some way or the other
>some don't even address the particular problem stated
>neatly typed up though and with pictures
>answers...
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>>7689055
Sabotage. I regularly circulate bad study guides to give me a leg up.
>>7689059
I wouldn't be surprised. I recall a few years back taking an advanced undergrad algebra class our professor used to assign all these problems from D&F. Half the class would just copy the answers from project crazy project and he'd always get mad when everyone wrote the same mistake ridden proofs as on that website.
>>7689059
That's projectcrazyproject for sure. I know and have graded for profs that assign exercises where they know that the posted solution is false just to catch lazy undergrads.
After a while I am convinced that Dummit wrote all the solutions on that sight just to fuck with his students.
Considering i can't improve myself that much when it comes to getting better than others with a effin huge potential, i have an idea in mind :
By which means can i achieve my ultimate level of focus ?
Like, how do i train to concentrate really hard in a short amount of time (1 to 10 minute at max) ?
Meditation or stimulants
>>7688910
the problem with stimulants is health right ?
you concentrate for a while and then you're a little more all around the place, hum ?
drugs
>>7688940
caffeine and nicotine are harmless, but highly effective when used together.
remember to also take l-theanine to slow the ridiculous caffeine tolerance buildup.
What are some real ways to improve our brains?Ive read that repetition is bad so if i read about different subjects and play diffrent games will that improve my brain?
>>7688810
Don't play games. Games are bad for your brain and more importantly are a waste of time.
>>7688814
>are bad for your brain
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>>7688823
Your brain is an adaptive organ that tries to learn and understand whatever it is exposed to. If you just expose it to games, it will waste energy learning games, and even after you're done playing your brain will think about the game. So it's not bad in that it makes your brain shrink into a walnut or go insane, it just wastes brain power.
