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>>7708146
When I manage not to fuck everything up completely and feel like an utter failure. The only reason I try hard anymore is not to have that feeling again ;_;
>>7708149
Fucking up in math gives me an insurmountable rage rather than depression
That pic with many of the mathematical symbols we use.
Getting 1 or 0 as an answer.
Knowing the 'trick' to the problem off-hand.
Why does everyone have an incredibly high IQ? I'm not asking "Why is everyone incredibly smart?" but why everyone has a genius level IQ these days. Are we all just good at solving problems?
Here's a passage from a paper I was reviewing today: " I could list the great minds through the ages that had depression or anxiety and were greatly successful, but that doesn’t really make my point. The point is that someone like me, with severe depression, anxiety, and mood disorder, who also happens to (and perhaps as a result of the way my mind functions...
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>>7708112
IQ is overrated
>why everyone has a genius level IQ these days
Because nobody brags about having an IQ of 75.
Self-selection
The only people who talk about IQ are those with high IQ
Nobody with sub 110 IQ wants to out themselves as having such
Hi /sci/,
I'm currently working full time and I have to study after a long day's work.
Before I started at my new job I could study from 8 to 4 while fasting. I found that fasting really increased my focus.
Now, however, I can't do this and found that fasting for prolonged periods of time makes my focus worse, so I need to find a new diet pattern, and maybe a whole new diet as I currently eat lots of sugars and that can't be good for the mind.
Any suggestions? How do I maximize my mental gains?
>>7708104
Who are these seman demons?
>>7708104
I've always found that I unintentionally fast when I'm focused. You just don't think about eating when you're engaged in your studies or project or whatever you're working on.
I gained weight working somewhere where I was bored most of the time. Lost weight when I was working hard with deadlines etc. I wasn't stressed, I guess I just subconsciously thought "I have better things to do than eat".
But if you're having issues concentrating, try preparing a few...
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>>7708118
me on the right
What does /sci/ think of the new destroyer? The USS Zumwalt
>>7708007
Nigga are they going full Galactic Empire or what
>>7708007
Outrageous amounts of public money thrown at the feet of arms multinationals as always. You don't need an ultra-high tech stealth ship like that to bomb a few goatfuckers in flipflops and baseball caps.
>>7708319
>I don't know how economy works. In fact, I have no clue how anything works, so I will talk out of my ass.
What could go wrong?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project
>>7707806
>The inflowing water would then evaporate quickly because of the desert climate. This way a continuous flow of water could be created if inflow and evaporation were balanced out. With this continuously flowing water hydroelectricity could be generated.
How fast does water evaporate there? I can't see how this would generate more electricity than a huge solar panel
>>7707806
>Qattara_Depression_Project
I was hoping that this would be an experiment in which a city's population were drugged/otherwise manipulated into depression.
That should be done.
>>7707806
>The resulting lagoon, according to the CIA, would have four benefits:
>It would be "spectacular and peaceful."
>It would "materially alter the climate in adjacent areas."
>It would "provide work during construction and living areas after completion for the Palestinian Arabs."
>It would get Egyptian president Gamel Abdel Nasser's...
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See the question above.
That only works in liberal arts classes. In STEM the professor is always smarter than you
He invited me to his house in a small village over the Easter holidays and I fucked his daughter and had his wife suck me off. He only found out when I hinted at it the week after he passed my thesis.
>>7707796
I've never had a professor.
What do you do when you get stuck on a problem, /sci/? Do you have a process for moving forward if you hit a wall?
>>7707590
take a 5-10 minute break
don't think about it, don't do other problems
just get up and walk around, listen to music
then get back to it
I let it be and consider other problems. Then later a new try.
Hawaiian court throws out Thirty Meter Telescope building permit
>https://archive.is/P41N4
>Excerpts:
Hawaii's Supreme Court has ruled that the construction permit for the $1.4bn Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on top of Mauna Kea mountain is invalid. Construction of the telescope has been on hold since March, when hundreds of native Hawaiians and their supporters protested and prevented building crews from entering the site. The court ruling is a fresh blow to the project, with the telescope's backers...
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>>7707566
In its ruling on 2 December, the court claimed that Hawaii's Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) should not have approved the permit in 2011 because it failed to follow due process when awarding it. "Quite simply, the board put the cart before the horse when it issued the permit before the request for a contested case hearing was resolved and the hearing was held," the ruling notes. "Accordingly, the permit cannot stand."
The court decision now requires the TMT to go through...
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>>7707567
Groups opposed to the TMT's construction have, however, welcomed the decision. Kamahana Kealoha, head facilitator of Sacred Mauna Kea Hui, says the group is "elated" at the move to annul the permit, which he says has been acquired "through an immorally and unethically manipulated process that has been negligently overseen by the BLNR". "Our goal has always been to systematically secure the Mauna," Kealoha told physicsworld.com. "The revoking of the construction permit is essential for us to succeed in protecting the mountain summit and the endangered-species environment from further development by this 18-storey monstrosity."
>Apparently, locals feelings trump scientific advancement...
Kealoha adds that they now hope that TMT's backers will "see red flags and pull out". "Quite frankly, the resistance is here to stay, and we plan to see to it that the TMT is not built," he says. "This could be more costly than the $1.4bn already appropriated and, speaking for myself and my group, we will continue to make sure the TMT being built on our sacred summit is not a profitable venture for investors, as we already have."
>...because getting in the way of the progress of human knowledge has worked in the past.
This makes me want to cry. This next generation of telescopes is going to incredible, and these fuckwits can only worry about "oh no muh island".
Besides, it's not like they stopped it, only delayed. It's obviously just going to be approved anyway in a year or so.
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Assuming you were in a vacuum chamber here on earth, what would be the bare minimum you could wear to be comfortable?
Obviously a space suit would be perfectly fine, although heavy.
Would something like a dry suit or a flight suit be more practical?
The U2 flight suits would probably be best.
>>7707439
A pressure suit.
If your oxygen mask isn't tight enough the air pressure will cause it to leak like 90%. If it's too tight it's gonna fucking hurt. Skin surface capillaries will dialate in reappnse to low preasure causing a slight drop in blood pressure, headaches, and possible blood clotting. Eyes will lose all moisture. This would be the absolute worst. Perpetually hyper dry eyes. They may swell because of the vacuum, and may blees becauae of the swelling plus dialated capillaries that're super close to the surface. If you get stressed, and you will like this, you won't...
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This guy has got some pretty good points. I think it is a very interesting read. Any other intellectuals agree? I read science papers once a week and it has honestly helped me really understand what is happening in this world for real. Check him out. Basically, it confirms what I know about animals and how humans are different. Smart guy. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955772/#B21
Fuck me sideways, did he reference himself? Nine fucking times? You do realize he has next to no actual evidence here beyond conjecture right OP?
He has proof for every point, sir. Did you even read it? And referencing yourself is completly valid, you toolbox. It's peer reviewed, so what is the problem? Stop being such a fag and try to learn something.
>>7707317
Go to sleep Premack, no one cares.
Welp, time to pack up guys. We lost.
http://humansarefree.com/2013/12/9-scienctific-facts-prove-theory-of.html
>we
Back to reddit
>we
Back to tumblr
>we
Back to your mother
I want to see a video of an astronaut floating around in space (just have someone in the ISS go outside) and take a plastic water bottle and open it.
1. How do I get NASA to produce this video?
2. What would happen?
>>7707161
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZEdApyi9Vw
The water would boil and evaporate.
>>7707161
Weird. We have a painting by the same artist down the hall from my office.
What does /sci/ think of Intuitionist mathematics? I mainly work in functional analysis, so proof by contradiction is pretty essential. I want to convince myself rejecting the principle of excluded middle is stupid.
>>7707156
intuitionistic logic doesn't *have* to drop the law of the excluded middle, it just isn't axiomatic.
the fun is finding out how much you need it and in what form. you should look at topos theory. it was started by grothendieck (who started in functional analysis), and we now have a pretty good grasp on topoi enough to name some qualitative properties which will give you say, excluded middle, or choice.
a topos is "essentially" the model categories of intuitionist theories (and the...
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Enjoy your principle of excluded middle.
>>7707172
From a very cursory look at these topos, I don't really see what makes them distinct from sets of axioms besides semantics. That being said, I'll definitely have to take a look a deeper look.
I wasn't very clear in my original post, but I guess I'm more curious about Intuitionism (especially Brouwer's philosophy) as it relates to altering the logical basis of math. Classical predicate logic maintains the principle of excluded middle as axiomatic, so what are the arguments for why mathematics...
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Prove that P = NP.
>Protip, you can't
Only when N = 1.
>>7707010
KEK
>>7707010
Are you dumb? P=0.
Why can the denominator of a fraction equal zero? Mathematically speaking.
I never understood this meme.
>>7706941
*can't
>>7706941
if x * y = z, then x = y/z.
1*0 = 0.
2*0 = 0.
1*0 = 2*0.
So if you allow division by 0 to mean anything, you could just divide both sides by 0 and end up with 1 = 2. Hence, "undefined" - there is no unique way to assign a meaningful value to it.
>>7706941
you can not divide 1 thing into nothing. what doesn't make sense is not being about to divide 0 by 0.
