What kind of things do you think Mochizuki would be able to achieve if he took Noopept™?
>>7964476
He could make some great shitposts on /sci/ about nootropics
>>7964476
Someone post the mind of the samurai copypasta.
What is the difference between a railgun and a coilgun? Which one is more efficient?
Also, if you had a cylinder filled with a gas like hydrogen, and you had a piston at one end with an explosive on the other side, and the velocity of the explosive's detonation was higher than the gas's speed of sound, what would happen?
Selfbump
>>7964408
>What is the difference between a railgun and a coilgun?
Wikipedia it. One uses rails, the other one or many coils.
>and the velocity of the explosive's detonation was higher than the gas's speed of sound, what would happen?
Piston travels down tube and compresses gas, you just described a Light-Gas gun which you can also wikipedia for details.
Why ask retard central something when you can wikipedia it instead?
What exactly is wrong with Wikipedia? Is the information on the articles trustworthy? Is it dogmatic or is there writer's or publisher's opinions presented?
So, what does /sci think of this encyclopedia, which announces itself to be free?
Decent place to get a general overview. If you want deeper understanding, follow the source links.
>>7962735
What exactly ido you mean by "wrong", fgt?
>>7962735
Wikipedia being wrong is just misconception of retarded teens.
Why haven't you joined the Triangle Fraternity?
>Triangle Fraternity is a social fraternity, limiting its recruitment of members to male students majoring in engineering, architecture, and the physical, mathematical, biological, and computer sciences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Fraternity#Notable_alumni
>>7961990
kinda seems like a cover for a gay sex ring
>>7961990
because i already joined ASME
Kek, they just started that this year at my school. It's a bunch of awkward engineer phaggots. Do NOT join an academic frat.
A long time ago, I had this free software that was amazing.
You put in some input numbers, put in a list of input numbers and output numbers, and it generates a formula expressing the relationship between the outputs and inputs.
Anyone know what it's called? Does it still exist? I'm an absolute moron with math, so it was a godsend.
Deep Thought.
>>7961380
wolframalpha
It's called non-linear regression analysis. I made a program like this in Python recently and will release it as free software soon.
If it follows the scientific method, why would you say it isn't a real science?
You can conduct experaments and observe results and such.
How do you even decide what is and what isn't a real science?
>>7957443
Predictive power, reproducibility, ability to distinguish signal from interest variable from confounding variable noise
Psychology comes up shorter on all of these than hard sciences do
>>7957458
I'd say it has quite the predictive power and reproducibility. It's just "unethical" to conduct these experiments.
That last one is a difficulty most sciences had or continue to have but is made easier with the advancing of research environment
Let me ask you one thing, though. Are the findings of psychological research false? Do they not have practical uses in the world?
>>7957498
>I'd say it has quite the predictive power and reproducibility.
You would be wrong.
Autodidact here, I have this inane habit of finding the course books for courses at advanced colleges and studying them independently in my spare time.
Any one else here do the same?
What do you study?
Can anyone hook me up with some great course ware?
>>7963990
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki//sci/_Wiki
>>7963990
Geniuses are criminals for suggesting they are like everyone. People might actually believe that and waste their lives pursuing careers they have no chance on,
>>7964029
Feynman was actually a nice guy by being a prick to his students, rubbing in their faces how their research was trivial and irrelevant.
Pure physics/maths is only for the greatest.
I found this to be pretty sad
Could those smiles be any more forced ?
>>7961022
She looks way hotter in the last 4 pics excluding the poor second to last one.
>>7961022
why did you post this on /sci/
What's the hardest semester you've had and why was it difficult ? I'll start with mine (I'm now in my 3rd bachelor year)
Computer Science, 2nd bachelor year, spring semester.
Courses :
Theory of computation : The teacher had no experience in teaching, this was his first year and he didn't seem to eager to do so either. The course covered many topics (set theory, graph theory, turing machines...) and every week we had graded problem sets where we were asked to provide proofs for difficult theorems on these subjects. The problem is many of us weren't familiar with these subjects and the teacher made no effort to cover the basics so it was an extremely time consuming and difficult course.
System oriented programming : This one was more dull than difficult,, the exercises were so boring a lot of people straight up skipped them and the graded sets were time consuming and uninteresting. It was one of those 3 credit courses that act like they're worth 6
On-chip architecture : This one was alright, mostly plug and chug
Reactive programming and parallelism : Alright now this one was horrible, every two weeks we had a new lecturer that covered a completely different subject, sometimes even in a new language we weren't introduced to, and our main language was Scala which is an overcomplicated mess.
Once again the graded homework were a bitch, but the exams were worse. In the final we had to program the game of life with actors in Scala, and this was like 30% of the exam that lasted 2 hours.
Probabilities and Statistics : This one was pretty good, the exercices were usually interesting and educative
Visual Computing : Pretty good as well, the biggest difficulty was that the lectures and the exercises did not cover the same matter at all, but other than that it was fine.
Humanities mandatory course : Whatever.
>>7958599
that picture made me vomit
>>7958607
http://crazy-teens-diary.tumblr.com/
Have fun
>>7958599
My hardest year is still to come, it's going to be the second semester of my masters (so in 2017), I'll be taking:
>Modern QFT
>General Relativity
>Hamiltonian Dynamics
>Differentiable manifolds
>Algebraic topology
>Algebraic geometry
It's going to be hard because I didn't meet the prerequisites for any of them (except Hamiltonian Dynamics), and I've taken some hard math electives (which I think I'm going to regret since I did my undergrad in physics and have very little exposure to proofs other than what I've taught myself). Still, should be fun.
>>7958607
At least I'm not alone.
The French are still best at math
When is this shit actually used in the real world?
>>7955331
set theory is used by physicists. When they say that ''the mass is 10 kg'' they literally believe that there is a number 10 floating in space and somehow giving you the answer on your measuring device..
Now, what framework for numbers ? it is set theory, where numbers are encoded as sets.
Since physicists believe that the mathematical inferences describe the world, when the inferences lead to quantified/numeric facts, they equally believe that the axioms of the set theory is true.
The first axiom of set theory is ''there exists a set''. so physicists believe that there is some set floating around.
>>7955331
>using \subseteq instead of \subset
>>7955331
What are you still doing here? I thought I told you to go fuck your mother.
ITT: 0/10s.
I hate that book so much.
At least you didn't have to use Bretscher :,(
t r a s h
I learned more from Reif which is almost 60 years old at this point.
Is it a legitimate concept or entirely hormonal or whatever?
I'm interested in any actual data about it.
The last edition of the DSM added an entry to clarify that it is not a mental disorder, and there are many people who identify as asexual who have had their hormones check and found normal. It is not the same as having a low libido... it is simply not wanting to direct their sexual desire towards anyone. There are asexual people who have normal or even high libido.
>>7953977
do asexual people masturbate?
>>7953995
Some, yes.
I'm not asking if because in my mind it's an inevitability. My question is WHEN. When will human driven cars not be allowed on the road? I believe we will have full on self driven cars on the roads in at least 5 years and at most 10. No way it'll be longer than 10. So with these self driven cars when will human driven cars be outlawed on the roads? Human error is the cause of almost every accident so self driven cars are definitely the future.
pic related. Stop lights will no longer be needed if all cars are in constant communication with each other communicating at the speed of radio waves back and forth between any and all cars nearby. It'll be safer and more efficient if there are no human drivers on the roads.
Intersections like that may not be possible yet because you cannot predict road conditions and such. Rate of acceleration/decelleration may vary.
And not every traffic collision is the fault of a human. Icy road and a large animal comes into the path of the car and it is unable to stop. Nobody is at fault. Infact a human driver may have an advantage as it could swerve into a snowbank and have a softer landing instead of hitting a moose that weights half a ton.
>>7952845
The onboard computer can sense road conditions because... you know... it's on the road. It can tell if it's icy or what not. Also I guarantee you a machine would have a faster reaction time than any human. They'll break quicker or swerve quicker.
>>7952843
maybe not ever. You can still see horse driven carriages on some roads today.
How do humanities articles differ from stem articles in your country?
>>7950862
humanities articles are better grammar and vocabulary.
stem articles are written by 12 year-old who can hardly speak but yet manage to think that they are pedagogical in their communication. Their topography is equally awful, since they think that it is enough to use latex to have a good article. The best part is when they leave a baseline stretch of 2.
Now the content. The stem kids think they have content because they cling to their fantasy of the relevance of the formal deductive reasonings, with a bit of induction to validate their speculations.
The humanities people at least do not pretend to discover the truth and bring it to the plebs. They share their opinions and know the limit of their endeavor.
The stem kids get butthurt very quickly from the way the people humanities communicate. But then nobody cares much about what stem kids talk about, since hardly anybody is willing to embrace their autism.
>>7950896
>implying humanities students aren't plebs themselves
>>7950896
this is pretty nice, I appreciate the effort into crafting this
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