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We will ever send a probe into the Sun?
>>7941465
Only at night
It'd be awfully hard to communicate with a probe entering the Sun, so probably not. Not unless we figure we can observe something meaningful from afar, like we did with the Deep Impact probe.
>>7941474
Is computer science the assembly line worker of STEM?
Its the profession you do if you're not good enough at what ever you studied to be employed in it.
It consists of repetitive, routine application of basic ideas you can become competent at within 6months of practice.
I can't understand why anyone would want to be a programmer on purpose.
>>7941330
Programmer? Yes.
Proper computer science topics are not a joke though. Thinking especially cryptography, complexity, computability, algorithm design, queueing theory, type theory, etc.
>>7941335
99% of CS jobs literally consist of doing what is described in the OP.
>>7941458
>99% of CS jobs
>CS jobs
>what's in OP
OP's description and CS are mutually exclusive. Not my fault universities won't separate software engineering from computer science.
What does /sci/ think of alternate medicine?
>>7941261
placebo
>>7941261
We don't think about it.
The bosrd is for science and math, not mystical woo.
>>7941261
It's a good thing that it exists. Dumb fucks can be weeded out of the population by their own choice.
I've come to except that there's a relationship between high iq and academic achivement, i used to think if you worked hard enough you could surpass someone with a higher IQ, but I've come to realize that this is equivalent to saying you can surpass someone that's taller than you in height if you work hard enough.
>>7941132
accept*
>>7941132
>that this is equivalent to saying you can surpass someone that's taller than you in height if you work hard enough.
No it isn't. You're comparing two entirely different categories.
>>7941132
There's a minimum requirement. You can't be mentally challenged and getting a PhD.
But many below-average intelligent people have no only survived, but succeeded and flourished in the academic environment.
You're not going to get a nobel price, and you probably won't hold a seat at MIT, but you might become a professor or a well known publisher. You can have all the citation (You)s you want.
You probably can do it. But also keep in mind that you don't have anything to prove....
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About a month ago I had a bicycle crash, sudden cervical spine movement with the impact, from this time I feel pain in the neck, this are my x ray images. Tomorrow the diagnosis will be delivered, what should I wait?
>>7940941
Side view
Autism
What has Stephen Hawking contributed to science?
Is he based or just a meme scientist?
>>7940940
Hes a good guy, leave him be.
>>7940950
I think he's a pretty cool dude, just wondering what /sci/ thinks of his science, I don't know much about it
He taught us pretty much everything we know about black holes.
Wim Hof holds over 20 world records for withstanding extreme cold exposure, and has been researched to have some manner of conscious control over his autonomic nervous complex. He's able to thermoregulate to the degree that he /never/ gets hypothermia.
If it's possible for a man to do this through willpower, it's possible to automate it in some fashion. How would /sci/ go about automating and improving thermoregulation?
I've been thinking that a device on the inside of the body heating up past a certain point could trick the rest of it to keep...
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>>7940487
he killed some nerves or some shit in his foot in the marathon in finland though so it's not /unlimited power/
>>7940487
Whats the benefit of using a machine to control the thermoregulation of the human body vs using a machine that just heats it up?
>>7940487
Do some research about hibernomas to determine how to grow BAT to extreme levels wit the injection of hormones.
Those tanks have 4 millimeter inch thick stainless steal.
So nothing can happen...
Yes. No. Not at all.
>>7940172
I'd be worried about the hoses, though.
>>7940172
>millimeter inch
kill yourself
Why is cancer such a bad thing? Some cancer cells rebuild their tylomeres and if spread all over the body would slow down aging or even stop it. Futhermore cancer cells require blood and nutrients so ill burn more calories and wont be fat. I would also love some braincancer to get some extra brain cells or a bigger kidney so i could binge drink more
Cancer man could be a superhero, nanana nanana nana Cacer man! He would be extra smart, won't age and can drink endlessly.
>>7939320
>Why is cancer such a bad thing?
Mainly, if not solely, because it kills people. Like it kills people all the time.
>ugly as fuck from all of my quasivestigial hyperbolic cyborgcancers
>in the end, the tradeoff was worth it now when i could just squeeze a gland in my brain with some muscle fibers of cancer to get high on synergetic PCP
Cuuld society still function if the robots did all the work and we just chilled all day?
Isn't that how life should be?
>could people still think and act for themselves while the robots clean up after them?
hmmm...
>>7937410
It would work as long people still owned the machines and took responsibility. If we give up responsibility then the robots will own us
/math/ general
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sorry not gonna do ur hw for you
>>7937243
use complex numbers to factor out terms, creating a convergent series in the function of the argument, then cite Euler saying the magnitude of the product is trivial and left as an exercise to the reader.
Just got my Complex Analysis grades, aced the course. Thanks /sci/
what do i ask him?
Why is this allowed?
because philosophy is better, more sophisticated and harder than memorizing tables.
Deal with it stemkid ;)
>>7929928
Imagine it wasn't. The world would not be better off.
>>7929935
Okay, but being sophisticated or harder doesn't mean that it is of more value.
Dumbass here. I don't know where else to turn. I'm not asking for homework help since I know you guys hate that shit. I'm just asking for an explanation.
I have been to several tutors, my professor's office hours, Khan Academy, and countless pages. I still can't wrap my head around spans or linear independence.
For the love of christ someone please help me. I was literally never good at algebra
>>7941480
Ok, so imagine a 1 dimensional space take the Real number line for instance. You want to describe the position of something that line. How many real numbers would you need to describe the position?
>>7941490
1 real number
>>7941480
So what it is about span or linear independence you don't get?
The intuition should be very easy to get if you approach it geometrically. Have a look here.
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/
Could we use math to communicate with extra terrestrials
Yeah, we'll just have to tell them we use base 10 first.
Sure.
Define a set in strictly mathematical terms. No language, as that would not be intuitive.
>>7941425
Yes. [math]a^2+b^2=c^2[/math], and the speed of light remains constant in a vacuum regardless of your origin of life.
We could communicate mathematics with them, but we first need to establish axioms. I believe binary is sufficient, as it has intrinsic properties pertaining to wave dynamics and electricity, and is easy to communicate.
>The speed of light is EXACTLY 299,792,458 m / s
>The speed of light is [math]literally[/math] [math]an[/math] [math]integer[/math]
>>7941001
True, this is because the speed of light can be derived from basic electromagnetic principles. Unfortunately, the exact speed is limited by the fact that we don't have a 100% precise measurements of the meter or the second.
Speed of light in a vacuum...
