So what exactly do engineers do for a doctorate? Invent new shit?
Inb4 they suck dicks
Testing of elasticity modules of bodily cavities.
Ben Franklin wanted the noble turkey as our national symbol. Wise old Ben.
>>7844014
Depends what the sub-discipline is.
>Like, when will I ever need to know [insert basic mathematical/scientific concept here]?
This makes my blood fucking boil. What else do dullards say that offends you beyond any reasonable measure?
>>7843989
this:
>>Like, when will I ever need to know [insert basic mathematical/scientific concept here]?
>This makes my blood fucking boil. What else do dullards say that offends you beyond any reasonable measure?
I never hear people say that because I'm not in highschool anymore.
>>7843998
>implying there aren't people like this in uni
Some proffs get so sad :(
What's the point of topology?
>>7843984
T = {S ⊆ X: p ∈ S or S = O}
>>7843984
the point of topology is to stop posting reddit frogs
>>7843987
>4chan frogs*
Gravy Waves General
So, what r u people thinking about LIGO WASH DC PRESS CONF?
Did they found waves or its just an error?
https://twitter.com/LKrauss1/status/695357752323903488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
>>7843901
new meme just like the emdrive
why do you guys fall for this shit
>>7843901
> gravity waves general
Wait until its confirmed first you underaged retard
>we're just raising awareness!
what a fucking nob.
I just spent almost 40 minutes on a single calculus exam problem. It was the last question too.
lim x->0 ( (3x^2 - 1) * cos^2(x) + 1 ) / ( 3x^2) )
I was able to plug in that cos^2(x) = 1 - sin^2(x). After that I had no fucking clue.
Calc-bros of /sci/, tell me how much of an idiot I am?
Sin(x)/x
>>7843851
which is 1 right?
>>7843854
Yea
So I was reading this study:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w7322
So apparently the prestige of the college you attend doesn't really matter at all.
If you look at the results, it's pretty clear.
Can anyone give me a case against this?
I currently attend a more prestigious university with out of state tuition, and though my debt won't be enormous, I'm considering switching to a less prestigious institution in my home state considering that it most likely will not have any effect at all on the final outcome of my earnings in my career.
Anyone else in this same boat?
>>7843671
"We find that students who attended more selective colleges do not earn more than other students who were accepted and rejected by comparable schools but attended less selective colleges"
Just a quote from right there in the abstract...
Also this makes sense when you consider that IQ is pretty well correlated with income, and higher IQ people will be more likely to attend more selective colleges but this isn't necessarily causation, IQ is mostly genetic.
>>7843671
yes it doesnt matter at all, i have solid evidence employers and university admissions tutors.
Case 1 when I attended UCL which is a top 5 British university the admissions tutor said that when selecting for a PhD he doesnt give a fuck where you did your undergrad. He himself admitted to attending Sussex university which is unknown.
Case 2, I dropped out of UCL because I wanted to do engineering and before going back to a university someone said to try engineering aprenticeships. I applied to Arup which is a top global civil engineering company, got rejected but I asked them if I reapplied with a civil degree does it matter where I went and they said absolutely not, that they train a lot of their engineers at South bank university which is super duper unknown. And get this: i told her (recruitment woman) that I asked because at school I was told that going to top universities makes a big difference hence why I went to UCL and she was very concerned even mentioning going to schools to dispel this myth.
Schools only tell kids this because having their kids attend top universities makes them looks good.
Ye but, how else will we compare dicks, without actually showing each other our dicks?
My school is better than your school.
Fight me faggot
Consider the turing test. If you can't tell someone is an artificially intelligent robot, shouldn't you consider them equal to a human?
>But robots don't have free will
Who says we have free will? What if human brains are just computers with inputs and outputs?
>Robots can't truly love, they are programmed
That is assuming that love isn't just happy signals when you see someone
(Just want to add that i have difficulty in determining some people as human based on what they say)
>>7843646
This indistinguishable robot i'm talking about hasn't been invented yet
Anyone else here too smart to be intelligent?
I know what you mean. I'm sitting in my Business Organization class right now... boooooring shit. I never read for this class. I'm thinking, geez, let's get some IUTeich up in here to spice it up. I need something to challenge my brain.
>>7843565
This is me. Due to reading about stirner, the Munchausen trilemma, Godel's discoveries, that webcomic that contrasts cavemen breaking rocks together with CERN, and realising that everything falls in to problem solving or stamp collecting, I have fallen in to a malaise. I think that hedonism is the only way out.
>>7843580
CERN is not stamp collecting.
Fuck you.
>Intelligent life forms created our universe
>Eventually we evolve to become smart enough to create a universe
>The cycle continues
Anyone else believe this?
No, I generally don't believe in things that have no evidence to support their existence and are rather the product of shit tier philosophical daydreaming
>>7843497
The daydreamers are the ones inventing and discovering things friend
It sounds cool but there isn't evidence you dumb frogposter
In the movie Interstellar, the characters land a shuttlecraft on a watery sattelite of the Giant Black Hole (Gigantor) which is so deep in the black hole's gravity well that time moves substantially more slowly and a few hours become years to the man waiting for them to return.
I realize I do not actually have any valid intuition about this situation but it doesn't strike me as possible.
Am I correct that a craft capable of descending into such a gravity well, stopping to drop off taikonauts and then returning would be capable of instead making a trip in some other direction (not into a black hole's gravity well) at a speed sufficient to cause the equivalent time dialation?
And I don't think we're supposed to think their craft is capable of doing that.
>>7843433
Everything in interstellar is 100% correct, even 5d love.
>>7843472
>center of black hole has 5D version of his bedroom
K mate.
>>7843482
>tfw no 5d bedroom
Does deodorant cause cancer?
Particularly the types that have aluminum? (Almost all of them)
>>7843404
It's ALU-MI-NIUM
>>7843407
Alumium, Aluminum, Aluminium.
Humphry Davy used all three, and in that order.
Just like the British used to call Football soccer, then ask why Americans call it soccer.
>>7843407
this
What does /sci/ think of Tesla ?
Is he meme-tier ?
Pic related is THE master.
>>7843339
Yes, yes he is.
M E M E
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>"This degree provides graduates with a strong foundation in analytical and communication skills, which are of great value in all walks of life and career paths"
AKA This degree isn't worth a shit
>>7843334
Well, communication is of great value in all walks of life and career paths.
Now, here's the difference. Is this a STEM degree with a short 1 or 2 semester writing/communication component, or is it a degree all about communication?
If it is the second one then indeed, the degree isn't worth shit.
Well being a sperg master won't get you anywhere, fag.
Kek. It's always the communication type majors that bitch about student debt because they can't get a job.
Is "the right stuff" a myth that NASA keeps around to pretend they're still relevant?
Russians have no problem sending you to space if you can pay $20-$40mil.
>>7843300
What?
If that's a myth they keep around they don't to such a swell job at it cuz I ain't ever heard of it.
Is the age of quantum computing upon us? What are the implications?
how is it different from normal computers ?
>>7843280
>Is the age of quantum computing upon us?
No
>What are the implications?
For the average person, probably not that much. Once they actually work (and can do prime factorisation) then RSA will become obsolete.
>>7843282
It supposedly uses quantum mechanics to be much more powerful. They said it solves certain problems 100 million times faster than a regular supercomputer.
