Can I even live decently if I go for a physics degree unless I get a job in an institute of CERN's magnitude which is near to impossible unless you're a fucking genius?
>>7954376
Just go work for a physics factory when you graduate.
>>7954376
bumb :DD
>>7954390
>tfw local math factory isn't hiring
fml
Hey /sci/
I'm going to try Modalert (Modafinil 200mg) tomorrow morning for the first time. My aim is to catch up on some missed maths work over the course of the day.
Any of you have any experiences with this stuff? I understand not to seek the effects but rather to let it work in the background. Would it be a good idea to take something like this in an exam?
Dont take the full pill, cut it in half. Otherwise you'll get all spacey.
Expect your pee to be bright yellow and smell like sulfur, and to be in a very trance like state.
That's about it
>>7954342
Damn, I bought this stuff to help study, not to talk to aliens and become a chemical factory.
Also just found theres another thread. Deleting this in a bit
>>7954331
Don't take 5 in one day.
Does anyone here have completely scientifically illiterate parents? I'm studying physics, and my parents are pretty religious, and in the spiritual corner (homeopathy, opposing vaccines, etc...) Today I was dragged into a homeopathy discussion with them for the umpteenth time. As always, I tried to explain to them that from the scientific side, it has no basis at all, but they just tell me something along the lines of "you can't measure everything, how can you measure the love from a mother to her child, yadah yadah", completely resistant to any kind of scientific arguments... I really don't want to completely end any discussion of this kind with them, but these talks are very frustrating, and I'm getting sick of it.
Anyone else want to share experiences/tips for this kind of thing?
Common ground is a good way to go. I mean she's not entirely wrong, the homeopathic side to medication is quite important. Support, love and attention are important matters in recovery, as is anything else that makes the patient feel "good" and be more motivated to getting better.
However, the body isn't infallible in it's recovery. That's the point that you have to explain to them, and note that a combination of the two treatment types is the best option.
This isn't your personal blog site,no one wants to hear about the fedora tier arguments with your parents.
My advice would be to get off of your high horse. If there is one thing that science can prove, it's that humans are extremely gullible. They are humans the same as you. All the only difference between medicine and homeopathy is that one holds off death longer. Either way it will fail you in the end.
How effective are aluminum foil hats really?
Not trying to meme here. From a scientific point of view, can aluminum foil really protect your brain from radiation? From which kind of radiation and how much foil would I need? What are more effective alternatives?
Thin sheet of aluminium foil will reflect radio waves but not radiation. Only multiple coated leads can stop hazardous radiation.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
>>7954069
And unless you cover your entire body in aluminum foil, it'll actually bounce radio waves inside of your head.
Is there any credible scientists that actually believe intelligence is 100% evenly distributed thought races, or any other trait for that matter?
> 100% evenly distributed thought races
No. wtf ofcourse not
>>7954062
this what some people actually believe tho
>>7954066
So what ? Retards will believe in anything.
Do you really think God exists and he made all men equal ? Completely throwing out the fact that evolution treated everyone differently ?
What's the deal with the "logical" or "intelligent" side of thinking being reserved by personalities claimed to be isolated, antisocial, and/or hermit-like?
My psych 101 class just finished a personality unit and it was hammered into our minds that "antisocial people are almost inherently more logical, whereas more bubbly, social people are are less logical and rely on emotional reasoning."
I went to a leadership conference as well that taught us to divide people in leadership four ways, two of which were the contrasting "social butterflies who don't contribute a whole lot" (they heavily implied the latter part of that statement countless times) and "the more soft-spoken, isolated leader who is a genius."
I'm sick of people using these studies and claims however to justify antisocial or irresponsible behavior. People act as though if you have people skills and are sociable, you're less logical than a person who spends much less time around people.
Where does /sci/ stand? How many hermits do we have on here (this is 4chan so probably a high rate)?
>>7953968
People forgo reason to be liked. Look at secularists, instead of them arguing against the irrationality of faith they adopt this bullshit co-exist bullshit to avoid conflict.
Math grad here, doing pretty well.
This year I tried to go hermit mode (no roommate, go home after class/work) and I thought it worked pretty well. I am fairly introverted and I don't really like to have people in my place when I don't want them there. That being said, I'm particularly antisocial, I do enjoy talking to people, parties (if I have friends with me) etc. I just don't like having people at home all the time.
I don't think the other people who came in the same year as I did are particularly antisocial either.
Many are somewhat introverted but not to the point of shutting everyone out: They have friends they see regularly, they talk to people etc. Some are also involved in the student association and plan parties and other events.
>>7953968
Jeez you seem like a butthurt social butterfly.
Anyway what leadership workshop is this, that seems strange there are plenty of antisocial folks that are just idiots.
If we breath in oxygen and breath out carbon dioxide why don't we die when we fall asleep?
Wouldn't the room be filled with carbon dioxide?
>>7953894
>Wouldn't the room be filled with carbon dioxide?
It would be if it was airtight, yes. But it's not.
>>7953894
You breath in oxygen and carbon dioxide, you breath out slightly less oxygen and slightly more carbon dioxide.
>>7953894
If you sleep with a plastic bag over you head, you might die. But a whole fucking room is just too big and contains too much oxygen.
Okay /sci/ I'm done.
>galaxies spin too fast to stay together
>let's add up some imaginary particles that fix 5/6 of the issue
And now this http://www.iflscience. com/physics/new-candidate-particles-dark-matter-are-so-dense-they-are-almost-miniature-black-holes
>imaginary particle doesn't interact with other matter
>yet it is on the brink of becoming a mini-blackhole
>being this fucking desperate and not seeing the issue is within fully understanding gravity and not creating shitty imaginary particles
![tumblr_n19lpw49ew1rctz11o1_500[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/2NtUM05.gif "tumblr n19lpw49ew1rctz11o1 500[1]")
Thats theoretical physics for you
>>7953875
is there any other experimental evidence of dark matter besides "the observed mass of the universe doesn't add up to our calculations so there must be dark matter"?
It's not as crazy as MOND.
There is other evidence for dark matter:
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/04/20/how-gravitational-lensing-show/
Has anyone in /sci/ been to a conference/expose in your field? If so, how rewarding was it, in terms of information, connections and the like? Was it worth it? If so, how often do you go? What is your field? Did you go as a group or did you go alone solely for professional and academic development?
Pic related is my first professional conference I'll be attending.
shameless self bump.
>>7953825
No idea,
But it's definitely worth more than this website.
>>7953857
well, that's a given.
Hey /sci/,
I'm taking a statistics class right now and I really miss the "puzzle" aspect of algebra and calculus. I have never actually taken a calculus class and I'm wondering how hard it would be to teach myself calculus...perhaps just to the extent of a high school calculus class for now.
I'm starting from scratch and am just reading about the "hot topics" that I've always heard people complain about. Right now I'm reading and taking notes on Derivatives but I'm pretty sure this is way out of context to me as I'm not sure how much knowledge I need about calculus to do so.
Send help.
you have two options:
do you want to start at to VERY beginning and work to calculus?
do you want to learn about limits / derivatives / integrals (most of HS calc) intuitively and not formally?
if you answer yes to the first one, first understand logical connectives (implies, iff, and, or, not) and quantifiers (universal and existential) to begin being able to write logical sentences about math, and learn about fundamental analysis concepts from the ground up (sequences, convergence, Cauchy sequences, subsequences) then you can define things like limits and translate your proofs from sequences into limits, and work formally upwards that way.
or fuck that: if you just want to have some intuition on what a derivative / integral / limit of a particular function, then start over at kahn academy and learn like the rest of us do when we're bored. sift through unhelpful wikipedia pages. buy an old college level calc text book. start at limits, the derivatives, the integrals.
what I did in high school was I watched the MIT open courseware 18.01 videos taught by Professor Jerison. Those videos are pretty fucking great and easy to follow along to. I also had a cheap copy of Stewart Calculus which I bought used for like $5 at a half price books. I did a lot of exercises out of there after watching the corresponding MIT lesson, as if I were actually taking the class. It worked ok for me imo.
OP I taught myself Calculus using the free website "Paul's Online Math Notes".
It is by far the best resource I can think of for this. Simply read the lesson, take notes on it all into your notebook, and then do the practice problems.
Here: http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/
If you do that you will know calculus more than well enough to use in any other course that requires calculus.
Now if you REALLY want to understand calculus, you should read calculus textbooks. Not just ones that are designed for, say, engineers, which only cover the computations of calculus, but ones that teach you all the proofs and theory behind the math. These are important. This is what a mathematician would call "calculus."
For this, I recommend the book Calculus, Volumes 1 and 2 by Tom Apostol, as it is what I used, or Calculus on Manifolds by Michael Spivak, an absolute classic.
Now, if you really want to understand the foundations of calculus, then what you really want to study is analysis. Calculus is just the computation (caluculations) aspect of analysis, hence the name. An introduction to analysis, with some very basic topology and algebra as well, will teach you everything you could ever want to know about calculus and much more. Analysis is the field of math, and calculus is term that references the results and computational aspect of that field.
For analysis, I recommend reading Rudin's "Principles of Mathematical Analysis." This is a classic undergraduate text and the "bible" of basic analysis from which the field comes from. It is simple and but it must be read VERY SLOWLY. You have to actually sit there and think about every step of every proof and draw out why the proof is true and which connections were made. This book is difficult, but the good news is there is no prerequisite to learning it. You can know almost nothing about math and by simply forcing yourself to struggle through this book you will gain a foundation in analysis from which you can progress.
Hey guise I just wanted to say that I only have a BA in engineering but I'm an expert in climate science and cosmology
K thanks
Is that true? Ima look that shit up senpai.
>He graduated with a B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1977
No wonder most of what he says is B.S.
>>7953792
He didn't believe in anthropomorphic climate change till he got scolded on it.
i have noticed something odd over the past 2 years. it seems bees (large carpenter bees) are working with hornets and wasps
i know it sounds crazy . my back yard is kinda big. and spring and summer seeing them isnt uncommon. its a constant while its day time
but these past 2 years when i kill a carpenter bee
(i do it because they make holes in wood and i would rather it not be my house they tear into. i only do it when they try to make holes in stuff to close to the house)
anyways when i kill a carpenter bee a hirnet or wasp always flys by about 20 seconds later. i have seen a carpenter bee fly by after i kill one and fly over the house and like a minute later return with a wasp following it and it gets really close like "hey your the one that killed my bud right? prove me right by taking a swing" and the wasp is just watching me. when i do nothing they fly off really slow wandering about then dart off over the house like "he must be some where lets get him"
its kinda odd. i know you want meme tire stuff like the em drive and you probably think this is more /x/ than anything but its creepy they never did this before and i have been killing them at this house for a decade with a broom handle. i pretend i am a samurai. i can do it when i find my center and relax
Get psychiatric help
Not really. Bees are smart fuckers and they constantly coordinate. I doubt about the wasps though. Not that they aren't smart, but they don't give a shit about bees and usually attack them. They don't make honey either so they got no stake in protecting bee flocks.
Still, it might be a general bee territory and a dead bee might be triggering the fellow antenna fuckers. You should just get about 5-10 chameleons and place them around the strategic corners. They go through bee and hornets like butter.
>>7953768
Your last paragraph greatly discredited your validity, so let me rephrase your post.
>Bees, wasps, and hornets have interactions
>Such interactions are possible social communications between the species
>A communiction means a bond between to subjects.
>Ex. Bee dies, wasp inspects.
>ex cont. If wasp determines source thats killing off bees, wassbeehornets will retaliate
Are bees, hornets, and wasps more social than previously believed?
>my personal input
>bees have been dying to pollution
>bees reach out to similar species to help them survive
>ayylmaos start dumping their trash on earth
>humans reach out to apes to help them survive
>he cites IQ studies with r values below 0.75. and thinks it's good defense against criticism of IQ.
>>7953639
u are low iq brainlet xD
Oh and inb4 the "anyone that laughs at IQ scored low on an IQ test meme".
>>7953640
There it is, the forced 10 second meme.
I'm not sure if this is completely /sci/ or not. I don't consider management science to be worthwhile but I think this is interesting to think about.
If Chinese people are made to work in an extremely hard working way (their Gaokao end of high school exams require crushingly high amounts of study that we'd consider child abuse and make the SAT / A levels look easy as shit), and there are so many of them, then why don't they have a monopoly on... anything? Scientific or mathematical achievement, artistic creations, businesses: They're not even a fucking footnote!
What's going on?? Is this proof that hard work is overrated?
I'm not referring at all to people of Chinese ethnicity who grew up outside of China.
>>7953626
Chinese people like other Asians simply don't care about discovery. They prefer to use what humanity knows now and apply it to satisfying their technological needs and that's pretty much it.
>>7953626
maybe they don't share a lot of their findings
>>7953626
Rote learning does not promote problem solving.
Dietetics is such a crappy field.
What should i change my major to? Im a jack of all trades when it comes to maths and sciences.
I just want to be finantially secure and independant.
>>7953603
Psychiatry or other field of medicine. It pays very, very well.
>>7953606
If only i could get into med school now..
>>7953610
It's all about memorization. I used to be very bad at it, but then I learned what the method of Loci and spaced repetition are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic
Google mnemonics for med school too.
You can easily get in med school if you have average intelligence and can memorize more or less well.
