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Who here watched vihart and agrees with her views on math teaching?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmhl2W-kuBc
>gender was a stupid concept to me until basket cases at university started yelling at me
Silly females and their personality cults.
>>7679752
>Understanding the concept, before actually solving equations
quite difficult to teach
>>7679782
Can't tell if sarcasm because teaching concepts is pretty hard to a newcomer.
Instead we teach how to solve equations because it's easier to teach
what if we just started killing off people with an iq below 100? would it benefit the human race in the long run?
> pic unrelated
I got 140 on an online iq test
Started? When would you stop? It better be quick or else you're going to end up killing the entire population.
>>7679512
Ok, I know the pic is unrelated, but now I'm curious. What is wrong with this scenario from a theoretical standpoint?
What do you guys think of psychiatry?
Both my parents are psychiatrists and im thinking of going for it
I think you are crazy
This is a science board. The humanities board is that way:
>>>/his/
>>7679501
>psychiatry
It's a legal term. Psychiatrists are psychologists with the training and legal responsibility to prescribe drugs. I correctly believe that Desoxyn should not be over the counter. I also correctly believe that all MD's are terrible scientists. Therefore I also correctly believe that you would be a neurochemical garbage man.
You'll get paid a shit ton...
how long does it take to become good at programming in C as a complete beginner ?
pls dont say bullshit like 1 day to learn and a lifetime to master
1 time to learn and a lifeday to master
>>7679460
1 day to learn and a lifetime to master x2
>>7679460
>programming in C
Learn to program in C++14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlPC3O1DVcg
Hi /sci
Philosophy has been for a very long time associated to "hard sciences".
Even now, in our time, scientists (from any fields) are debating on the nature of the world, which is clearly a metaphysical problem. I will not list the books or journals containing debates, but anyone who have an interest in sciences will know what I mean.
Which leads to my question : Are philosophy or metaphysics still relevant in sciences?
If yes, why did we almost banished philosophy from sciences education?
If no, why very good scientists would loose...
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>>7679424
Science and philosophy had a falling out like science and magic.
>>7679433
They used to be such great buddies... What a shame.
>>7679424
It's not relevant past the epistemological premises' and a physicist has no use for it.
Alchemy might be a discredited field, but you can still practice alchemy as a discipline does not rely on being inherently true.
In the same way practicing physics only relies on fundamental postulates within the discipline itself.
>Even now, in our time, scientists (from any fields) are debating on the nature of the world, which is clearly a metaphysical problem. I will not...
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Math is red
Engineering is green
Other Sciences are blue
Debate me
Not sure what is your point anon.
Math and engineering are two set and the intersection is empty?
Everything but math is not a science?
The surface of math is the same as the surface of engineering?
Please clarify
>>7679388
primary colors you tryhard but stupid faggot
>>7679388
Lack of any od the 3 and you have abscence of though (99% of liberal arts)
Combining all of them gives you a cold, heartless black (physics)
If I want to make money (not be super rich, just wealthy enough to be able to afford cutting edge technology over the next 20-30) should I go into computer science or math majoring in computer science?
I want to make AI and I also want to merge my mind with computers, but I also want to be able to go to a grocery store in 20 years and buy a hundred dollar loaf of bread.
Should I just start raising a goat farm instead and hope the occult elite program goat worshipping into AI?
Just become a NEET
Once nanotechnology becomes a thing all 9 billion of us can enjoy cutting edge singularity technology.
Assuming those at the top don't view wageslaves as parasites that need to be destroyed.
Goat farm sounds more rewarding.
You just have to be able to spot the difference between an edgy satanic teen trying to fuck your goats, and a real occultists trying to steal your goats. After that though its smooth sailings.
goats
Explain what a Turing machine is to a retard please. Tried reading everywhere and still don't get it.
>>7679253
Consider changing majors. CS has become shit because of the likes of you.
A Turing machine is a thing that can do anything (that can be expressed as logical algebra).
>>7679253
It's a beep boop robotable.
What do you guys think of Carl Sagan?
A brilliant example of what humanity can be.
Pic semi-related: the only pic I have of the man.
All I know is my astronomer uncle sent me The Demon-Haunted World for Christmas when I was 18, I read one and a half chapters and it made me physically ill. If the man's anything like his writing then he's trash.
DUDE STARS LMAO
>most posters completely clueless in their subject
>cücks
>homework threads every thirty minutes
>university threads
>job threads
why is this board so bad bros?
>>7679164
>>university threads
>>job threads
nothing wrong with that
why do you think they have career fairs, seminars, etc at unis? its important
>>7679164
>homework threads every thirty minutes
and when i come to sci to seek assistance on a real problem that i have found on my free time i get no answers, ever
you guys all suck dragon dicks
>>7679164
Posting facts and logic here, DOES fix what's wrong. The problem is IGNORANCE. (The added problem is STUPIDITY, but you can't fix that.) The fix is POSTING.
what can you tell me about this little guy here?
im studying mechanical engineering, is this thing of any use for me? for like technical mechanics? technical thermo dynamics?
>>7679100
>is this thing of any use for me
No, just get a $12 scientific calculator
>>7679299
The best scientific calculator out there.
>>7679100
I have the cx cas.
A sexy devil indeed.
But then again I got it for free so there's that.
Would you date a girl who didn't take/doesn't want to take calculus
>>7679023
I would ONLY date this girl
>>7679023
I've tried.
I used to date a lot of hot bimbos from my uni gym. Mostly majoring in worthless humanities or commercial shit.
I can't stand their retarded conversations after a while especially when their friends join. The sex isn't worth all the time wasted rotting your brain by trying to level with them.
I'm only dating girls who have taken at least DEs now, but mostly I'm dating seniors from my own department.
>>7679041
my gf is a sociology major, she's intelligent, but it gets annoying sometimes when she talks to me about gender and race crap. Also she hates math and refuses to take calculus
It's easy for her to talk to me about that stuff, since it's obvious, but it's hard for me to talk about stuff I am doing because she lacks the background.
<neat>
>>7679009
Can this be a new meme/shitpost?
> asteroid mining for astatine
> transmutation of other elements to astatine
> how to slow down radioactive decay
whats more rare
astatine or ultra rare pepes???
>>7679009
Fucking clickbait ads, fuck off popsci faggot
>be me yesterday
>family is in town for Thanksgiving
>driving my half brother somewhere
>made a joke about the sun because it was shining in our eyes, mention nuclear fusion
>suddenly he says "supposedly"
>wat
So he proceeds to go on about something called Electric Universe Theory (I had never heard of it until then) and how I shouldn't believe all the "bullshit...
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>>7678983
> My family is full of morons.
Most people are fairly dumb. Don't fall for the assumption that the average intelligence is in any way sufficient for the challenges facing Humans. Given the nature of our challenges, and given the clear incapabilities extant in the average person, only a few percent of people are able to fully face the present and future.
My dad always mentions popsci physics articles he has read to me. Since I'm /physics/ except he doesn't know much about physics so I tell him to just read about basic physics that he can understand before moving onto the 'cool' stuff.
Anyway one day when he was telling me one of these things I told him to read the chapter in feynman lectures on physics about gravitation. But he told me he already understood gravity and that it was caused by the rotation of objects. He refused to believe that any mass has gravity and that if he was in the middle of...
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>>7678991
I wouldn't say most people are dumb, they are just content with having no knowledge on lots of subjects.
Hey, do you think that going for med in school is really worth it? I mean all that time and money thrown away for something that would not come in the near future, would something from STEM fields be better?
>inb4 I suck at maths
>little to no money but big dreams
>>7678743
US or UK? or other?
>>7678757
The contracts are still up in the air. If you're on the fence about medicine, wait (if possible) to see what the monetary situation looks like.
Other than that, it's really a personal commitment to do more work than you get paid for (in terms of complexity, hours, emotional situation, etc)
