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Do you feel like you're better at rigorous mathematical proof writing when you've had a drink or 2?
>>7715475
>Glenfiddich
not bad/10
>>7715478
ballmer peak
allows you to get to that zone like when you're about to fall asleep, thought of something extremely interesting but are too tired to get out of bed and act on it
this is why having a beer once in a while is good.
>>7715478
>not bad/10
meh, entry level
Do people choose degrees based on interests anymore? It seems everyone just chooses to do engineering cause of muh versitility.
I'm doing Science and Education, so yes. I will never be rich, but I will be satisfied.
Yeah they do.
[spoiler] I fucked up fàm [/spoiler]
>>7715337
I chose ChemE because it's interesting and yes muh versatility, I love learning from so many different fields, there's plenty of time for specialization in grad-school.
During my time casually browsing the fields of philosophy and science there's been a recurring theme of stating "X is an illusion" wherein X is some massive thing that defines how humans interpret the world. I've seen it all, I've seen serious heavyweights in the field say things from time itself (a few quantum theories), reality (ala the Matrix, Descartes) to movement (Zeno) to consciousness, to free will (determinism), to the concept of the "self", to morality (Stirner and friends), to basically everything (solipsism)
Honestly, looking...
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>>7713787
Those are just a few of the things off the top of my head, too. I've even seen claims that causality itself is an illusion.
>>7713787
Free will and morality are definitely illusions. The other statements are retarded and scientifically wrong.
>>7714183
>Free will is a myth. Religion is a joke.
Get out Monsoon.
A statistical analysis of footprint data has found that Foot Length, Foot Width and Heel Width follow a natural bell curve distribution. Which strongly suggest a real source and not fakery, unless you believe thousands of fakers all over the country have worked together.
But that's not all. As feet get bigger they don't simply scale up but get a lot wider.
It is highly unlikely that amateur fakers know this fact about hominid feet.
Thus the best explanation for the source of Sasquatch footprints is a real population of 2000-4000 nocturnal apes (maybe...
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Where are the corpses.
Where are the recent fossils.
I will grant you that a relict population is not impossible, but I still think it's exceptionally unlikely.
>>7721744
>corpses
10.000 black bears die every year in the woods
I'm out there almost all the time but I have never seen a single black bear bone
So I bought this saline solution that's used for cleaning your eyes from the pharmacy because they said the stuff that's used for injections are prescription only. Is it safe to use this for intra-muscular injections? Obviously it's sterile and it also doesn't contain preservatives, which is good and bad. They wouldn't tell me why, they just said you can't use this for injections because it's for your eyes. I only need 2ml. I guess worst case scenario it hurts more? Anything else that could happen? Interference with the medication? Serious...
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You're fine.
>>7721542
Are you being sarcastic? I rather not get heart failure or waste my medication.
>>7721539
the only side effect would be a bit of salty taste in your mouth and some sleepiness for the next 12 or so hours.
Other than that I don't think it'd affect you in any way. I am a med student completing his last year if that helps.
Just make sure the injection is clean and sterile and you don't inject any air bubbles.
Suppose I receive a particularly devastating text from my ex, and in a fit of rage I desire to destroy my phone.
Would it be better to throw my phone straight at the ground, or to use the same amount of energy and throw my phone straight up into the air, hoping that it will break when it crashes. Which is more destructive?
>>7721107
FUGGG
Retarded chemistry student here, this is probably wrong but here I go:
If there's no air resistance then they should be the same. If there's air resistance then throwing it into the air is worse.
>downs syndrome chemfag out
>>7721133
"Worse" as in less likely to break your phone, if breaking the phone was the goal
Can we discuss Chemistry and Physics? I need to register for classes for next semester and either need to take Chemistry 107 (Gen Chem for Engineers) or Physics 218 (Mechanics)
So which is harder and which should I take first? A little background is I am taking MATH 151 next semester as well which is Calculus 1 and i've heard it is not wise to take Cal 1 with physics because you need to know Cal 1 prior not simultaneously. Can anyone shed some insight please.
>>7721037
OP, you better edit that picture. The intersection between biology, chemistry and physics is of course mechatronics engineering :^)
>>7721054
But memes are supposed to be on /s4s/
I'd go for the chemistry.
You heard more or less correctly, IMO. A lot of physics does make more sense if you know basic calculus. For example, something as basic as the relationship between position, velocity, and acceleration is most easily expressed in terms of derivatives and integrals.
>60 degrees in NY in Mid-December
Are we fucked? Is it just because of El Nino, or is it also because of climate change?
Will it ever get cold again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvmeUStFvz8
>>7720825
Same here, but in Michigan.
I don't know if that's just lake effect or if it's something else.
>>7720825
*Niño
>pic related
Is there any way to get actually good at this? I mean, Jesus Christ, I am absolutely fucked at this particular course and at this point, I just want to pass, but even that sounds like a far fetched goal right now.
>>7720714
Is implying that statics is difficult a new meme to draw out major politics fuckwits now? This same thread was posted almost verbatim 2 days ago.
>>7720714
only if you believe that jet fuel can't melt steel beams.
>>7720714
Get good at matrix algebra and vector geometry
How would you know if the universe was collapsing? Or how would you perceive it? Could you? Is time lineal or is it just our perception of time?
I'd like some serious answers or thoughts please. My guess is you could not. It may have expanded and collapsed millions, billions or trillions of times already. How would you know? Is this the one true subject in science that comes down to beleif?
Bump but probably gonna slide. I think I've answered my own question
Anyone? Maybe one more bump
If the Universe were collapsing, distant galaxies would be blue-shifted, as the space between us would be shrinking. The correlation between red-shift and distance is the major thing that tells us it's currently expanding.
Expansion/collapse cycles are effectively irrelevant to the modern age, since upon collapse to a sufficiently small volume everything gets effectively reset anyway. Although there are alternative cosmological models, the earliest we can see back to is just after the Big Bang, so that's all that's really worth "believing" at...
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Why does it feel so good to be drunk? Not why alcohol triggers whatever chemicals in our brain, but why did we evolve to respond with pleasure to substances like alcohol and drugs?
>>7720478
because life is suffering and substance-abuse is the easiest path for temporary relief. also, alcohol is a drug, faggot, in fact one of the most deadly drugs.
You have to talk about brain chemistry when you talk about WHY these things are good.
But it all boils down to evolution. We evolved with the pleasure centers in our brain in order to be spurred into action, in one form or another. We search for food and fuckbuddies, and either one of those activates a gland which rewards us with feelings of pleasure.
The strange part is this wacky coincidence that these specific chemicals which make us feel good don't just come from the gland; they also come from other sources opiates for example.
The relationship...
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idk I don't like alcohol
most of it tastes too much like syrups I hated as a kid
Why aren't there green mamals?
>>7720449
Chameleon are green, lizard are green too
>>7720483
I'm not OP, but OP clearly asked about mammals
Shut up!
You cannot even begin to comprehend the torturous existence one must suffer in order to begin to gain a basic understanding of the fundamental mathematical concepts used to build a foundation for learning how to begin understand the most basic of basic mathematical concepts required to fail at getting a PhD in Mathematics.
I was born with the knowledge of every mathematical text ever written, I spent every waking moment for the next 30 years studying complex mathematical concepts such as Banach spaces, Banach topology, Banach rings, Banach fields, Banach...
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>>7720230
>Wasting 30 years of your life studying a meme degree.
But why?
>>7720238
There should really be a list of what is and what isn't a meme degree now.
>>7720244
The official list of meme degrees, as judged by all /sci/ posters:
>Non-meme degrees: my degree (if I am happy with my job), my friend's degrees
>Meme degrees: your degree, all other degrees, my degree (if I'm not happy with my job)
If you and I got the same degree, yours is a meme degree because you went to a meme university, or at least specialized in a meme subfield.
Hey /sci/ 1st year 1st semester engineering major here looking for some help.
since i was such a fuckhead in hs and dgaf about class, they put me in remedial courses and now i have to make up all that time within this upcoming winter break. I essentially have to learn precalculus in a month. What other than pic related (my textbook) and khanacademy should i use?
>>7720053
The sticky, you faggot.
>>7720053
>since i was such a fuckhead in hs and dgaf about class
holy fuck can someone come up with a good name for these types?
>i was too cool for school
>now i truly see the value of science and math (translation: i want money)
>where's a good place to start learning math?
>btw, i only know highschool algebra
they're a plague we get these...
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>>7720067
future marketing majors
Ireland: Robert Boyle
>Formulated Boyle's Law
>Questioned 'alchemy'
>Coined the term “analysis”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Italian_scientists
Choose one
>>7720008
BASED
