Does anybody here have a degree in earth science/geology? What are the job prospects? Do you like your career? What's the pay like in this field
>>7916054
>What are the job prospects?
FUEL AND MINERALS
BS in bio and geo, working on my MS in geo
there's good money to be made in petroleum and mining, otherwise you work in academia or for surveying organizations.
I'm a paleofag so I'm definitely in academia. the only use oil companies have for paleontology is biostratigraphy and conodont color alteration
>>7916054
I only know geology major and he went geology so he could focus on playing football and getting drunk because he figured it was easy enough that he didn't need to study. Also his dad worked in a mine and so he thought rocks and tunnels were moderately interesting.
He was pretty much correct afaik.
Stupid Questions thread
>non-stupid questions allowed
I noticed my post got over the post limit so I'll re-post here:
>>7915753
>>7915823
[math]\sqrt{a \ast b} = \sqrt{a} \ast \sqrt{b}[/math]
You can't add 2 square roots unless a=b.
How do I get the inequality in (56) ?
I suspect it involves the triangular inequality but I can't work out the details.
Are the dangers of smoking overblown?
No. But do what you want, it will be good for natural selection
Weed? If anything, it's not acknowledged enough. The smoke does seriously irritate your lungs. Not like tar of cigarettes, but any small particles in your lungs will irritate it. Not just from the paper, but from the plant material as well. Vaping it is okay I guess. Nothing wrong with pure THC.
>>7915693
>There's really no legitimate problems with being addicted to a substance.
Enjoy your additional unnecessary expenses.
What drugs can I do without losing neutrons?
>>7915665
Any/all of them
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>>7915665
You don't 'lose' neurons, just fuck up the interactions between them
>>7915669
>neurotoxicity isn't a thing
wew lad
I want to work for google, first as a software engineer then as a researcher into immortality at calico labs. Lastly I would transition to neurological and cyberdization so I can lend a hand in the transhumanist effort once google unveils that department. All the while I want to work on making robots at boston dynamics for fun when I have vacation time.
How can I achieve my goals? What schools should I go to?
>>7915557
>How can I achieve my goals?
By working hard, your ass off if you can.
>What schools should I go to?
The best engineering school you can get into.
>>7915561
Ok I can do that.
>>7915557
>study immortality at calico
It's a racket. I know ppl close to the project. They aren't close to anything beneficial to anyone but Google's brand.
are there any majors outside of STEM that are actually worthwhile and come with decent job offerings?
All you ever seem to read online about non STEM field majors is how they are unemployed now.
nope
Actually it's STEM that has way more graduates than jobs, precisely because of this retarded circlejerking.
>>7915524
College isn't job training, retard. If you want job training then go to a fucking trade school.
Is a LaTeX generated document the most beautiful thing in the world?
>>7915414
Well not that one the graph is way too fucking bold.
>>7915414
Honestly I'm tired of the standard tex look. Lacks heft.
>>7915450
\usepackage{palatino}
Is taking notes actually fucking necessary?
I'm in year 3 engineering now and have written thousands and thousands of pages of notes. Realistically, I never really look back at them (maybe a quick glance while I'm doing a practice problem). Even before a test or a final I don't review notes, I just do practice problems.
My question is - Why do people take notes? Why not just write down the relevant formulas, make them make sense in your head through reading, and then just do practice questions?
This is coming from a guy who didn't take a single note during Calc I/II. I literally just went through the stewart book's practice questions and referred to the text instead of any notes.
Also, to clarify: For non technical courses, or more elaborate explanations of some scientific processes, shorthand notes are of course necessary. But for any math or physics course ever, why do people even write "notes" down? Shouldn't one put themselves in the situation where they have the problem in front of them and have to think about what they just read from the text/heard from the lecture to apply it to a problem? Why spend hours and hours copying notes?
>thousands and thousands of pages
No you haven't
What are the chances of getting dubs?
>>7915254
1 in 11 retard
>>7915294
Test 1
>>7915254
10 in 99
>If you don't score above 80% in your STEM subjects, you shouldn't be studying/pursuing a career in STEM
Is this true /sci/? Every bio I've read about phd students, post docs, lecturers, TA and professors, all have immaculate academic records or atleast well above a 80% average overall
>tfw 65% average in my bachelors in Math so far
>>7915068
65 % sounds like a lot to me, the passing rate for exams in my chem BSc is never significantly higher and sometimes lower than that.
But most of what I heard from TA is that they usually are good, but not constant overachievers. Profs are straight outstanding, no exception I know of.
I also plan to pursue a career in STEM, what I have been told is that grades in BSc matter really little and your MSc should just be good, but not necessarily better than straight B / < 2.0 / whatever the equivalent in Switzerland would be.
It's kind of funny. I have made A's on my first to Calculus tests but made a 50% on my Chemistry test. I should have just taken Physics instead of Chemistry. Chemistry fucking sucks and it looks like im going to stuck taking Chemistry 102 even though I am going into Comp Sci
In other words, JUST.
>>7915140
>I am going into Comp Sci
>Should've taken physics instead of chemistry
If you hate chemistry so much right now, physics would've made you suicide.
ITT we post a topic in math and then people post applications of it
I'll start: algebraic geometry
>>7915001
Visualising atomic electron orbitals
Algebraic Topology
computational neurodynamics
It's there any linear algebra guide for game programmers?
I can't understand how those formulas work in a programming language.
>>7914894
why do you want a linear algebra guide for programmers? just learn linear algebra and stop being lazy
>>7914912
I can't understand how linear algebra can be translated into code.
http://golibgen.io/view.php?id=800859
What does /sci/ think the most viable renewable resource is?
We won't have oil & coal forever.
>>7914854
Solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric.
In an ideal world, nuclear even though that's probably not defined as "renewable".
humans turning giant wheels while being whipped
Is ITER actually going to be able to achieve a net energy positive reaction?
>>7914801
Of course it will... eventually
A better question to ask would be "when". In which decade? (Or century lel)
>>7914801
wendelstein, look it up
>>7914811
ITER. It's a specific reactor.
Might never work. Might blow up. Might get its funding cut.
Project was launched in 1985. Now they're saying first plasma in 2025. Maybe.
>you're a keen young fusion researcher
>26 years old with a fresh PhD
>you get onboard with the new project that's going to build the first net-power fusion reactor
>the day is finally here
>you turn it on
>but just to test it
>there's no real fusion fuel in it
>you're 66 years old
>you're not scheduled to put tritium in it for more 7 years
>...on a delay-plagued project
>it's D-T day
>you're 78 years old
>you're really going to do it, you're going to try for net power fusion
>you turn it on
>magnetic reconnection
>the plasma burns a hole in the chamber
>the cryocooling system is breached
>a spot on containment coil goes ohmic
>liquid helium becomes gaseous helium
>it all explodes
>you're at a safe distance but
>heart attack
>as you die
>you bitterly
>think
>of
>fusion
Let's suppose there exist an infinite number of positive integers.
Let's consider all the postive integers that can be defined in the english language with a sentence of less than 1000 characters.
A sentence is a definition of a number if one and only one number correspond to the sentence. (not all sentences define a number)
It is easy to see that there is a finite number of sentences of less than 1000 characters, since there is an infinite number of positive integers, obviously some numbers can't be defined with less than 1000 characters.
Let's call N the smallest of this numbers that can't be defined with less than 1000 characters.
N can't be defined withh less than 1000 characters, yet the sentence:
-"The smallest number that can't be defined with less than 1000 characters"
contains less than 1000 characters and define N.
Hence N can be defined with less than 1000 characters, by contradiction there exist only a finite number of positive integers
Here I proved maths is just a meme. Can we move on now and stop pretending math is important.
I guess you're trolling, but just in case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox
>>7914747
You have not proven N exists, so the proof does not work.
>>7914831
Every subset of the positive integers contain a minimal element.
Even my 6 year old daughter know that.
