What business do multiple choice questions have in university? Is this a uniquely American thing, or do European universities use this format in their exams as well? It seems pretty insane to me that all my kinematics exams and more than half of each of my calc exams use this.
I've never took a calc exam that had multiple choice and I took calc at community college
>>7704724
At what school did you take calc? I'm going to Penn State.
I taught college for three years after graduating, and I gave a multiple choice section on my exams in one class (intro to groups and rings). It made sense for some questions, and made a fair exam possible. Our class time was only 50 minutes, and it's hard to test 4 weeks of learning in that time. I went for 10 questions of multiple choice, with an expectation that each would take only 1 minute... plus 2 questions that should take 5 minutes, plus 3 questions that should take 10 minutes.
I gave partial credit if a m.c. answer was wrong, but the work was shown and was worth partial credit. If it was right, you got the full 3 points. If it was outright wrong and you selected an answer, you lost a point (to discourage guessing).
I got a few positive comments on the course evaluations about those exams. I admit they might have been influenced by my explanation of the philosophy behind them.
being a sociopath must be pretty good and by sociopath basically i mean "shameless alpha"
*feel good when going to job interviews
*not afraid to aproach women and fail
well you get the point, everything in ones life would be and feel better
now i ask, are there steps to become a sociopath or atleast get near it?
what comes to my mind:
meditation
motivation (in the form of documentaries and movie, with sociopaths/very confident people in them)
share your thoughts
>>7704593
you know you don't have to be a sociopath to
*feel good when going to job interviews
*not afraid to aproach women and fail
you just have to be confident
>share you thoughts
4chan is 18+
Do it for the LuLz.
Let that be your mindset and your description making law. Simple. Your current mindset probably sounds a lot like:
I want this goal, and want to do it this way, but if it goes this way, then I won't know what to do because I didn't think of it and if it does go that way I might end up with something I didn't want.
I'm stupid and fucked. I need 10x10 matrices with determinants of 0 but there can be no zeroes and no more than 4 consecutive 1's. Help.
Write down everything you know about it with variables, and statements relating those variable to numbers
Any matrix with an identical row or column has a determinant of 0
>>7704560
no columns can be identical
How can I explain the difference between the pressure in a pressure cooker and the pressure at the bottom of the ocean to someone not used to scaling up or down general concepts? Nicely. thanks yo
>>7704483
I mean explain how there isn't a difference.
>>7704483
You sure you you're the one who should be explaining things to people?
>>7704490
Too bad there is a difference, between positive and negative pressure....
>After decades of uncertainty, the Apollo 16 S-IVB impact site on the lunar surface has been identified
What /sci/ think about this?
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/lro-finds-apollo-16-booster-rocket-impact-site
>>7704408
it looks like piss
>>7704408
>After decades of uncertainty
>impact site on the lunar surface has been identified
>after decades of uncertainty
bullshit from the start. they can take pictures of the earth from orbiting the sun but decided now is the time to search for something they knew was there but never bothered to find.
>>7704408
Can be anything.
They should better show us the far side stuff.
/sci/, does my cat consider me an alien visiting his home world, or am I to him more like a goddess, in the manner of Athena or Aphrodite?
Wanting to know from the cat's perspective. Thanks!
>>7704361
Are you a girl : 3
Guys I have a bro who's a physics phd and he's unhappy with his life. I want this christmas to offer him a new perspective by way of introducing him to the fucking genius who was Alan Watts. Masters degree in theology, doctorate in divinity, friends with Carl Jung, and all-around master of untold proportions.
Is anyone here familiar with Watts and if so, could you please recommend a book of his which would offer a gentle but profound introduction to his genius-tier, other-worldly perspective? I really think it could help my mate but I just don't know which of his many books would be best suited.
pls halp. Thanks /sci/
also out of appreciation for my man watts, postan this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMRrCYPxD0I
thanks again all. peace yo.
Never heard of the guy before but your post has so many red flags I bet he was probably an /x/-tier kook.
>>7704315
he really wasn't. he was extremely intelligent, there are hundreds of hours of his lectures on youtube.
he influenced jung and freud. he is extraordinarily articulate. he has no gripe with science, he merely attempts to merge eastern and western philosophies in an attempt to provide a more holistic perspective, and perhaps avoid global extinction by way of recognizing the interconnected nature of mankind in the same way as did jung. he took something of a hermetic perspective, just like isaac newton. incidentally. dude is not to be underestimated.
>>7704332
Okay I watched the video, it was about what I expected
>you're the whole universe here and now lmao
>everyone in the universe is you, just as separate people
>he influenced jung and freud
Well a lot of their theories were trash too.
At what age are you too old to learn? I feel like everyone has a limit including you.
You are never too old to learn, stop posting bullshit b8 to get all the frogposters to feel bad.
I believe in all of you anons. If you're willing to put the work, you can do it.
>>7704302
I started noticing issues around 24-25. It's a lot harder to retain information and get the motivation to learn new things in depth.
What are the best books for learning maths from the very bottom to the top?
>>7704222
There is no top. Develop foundational skills
in analysis, algebra, and topology.. As you get better, start looking into more specific areas that pique your interest. Type "Introductory" + "topic" into amazon.. You'll find things..
>>7704222
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Math_Textbook_Recommendations
>>7704227
A mighty thanks then
What would a society of intelligent goats look like?
>>7704206
Lack of hand-like appendages would limit their ability to adapt to different environments. I'm not sure how it would look in a localized sense, but it wouldn't be too different globally.
>>7704209
Would intelligent goats need thumbs to figure out how to irrigate fields and start their own agriculture revolution?
>>7704206
The same as a society of dumb goats, only with higher IQ.
You know there's a problem in society when I know someone who has an IQ of 176, maths degree from Cambridge, and still struggles to find jobs paying the amount he feels he should be paid.
It's either you make your own business or you get lucky landing a crazy good job being CEO or something close to it.
Thoughts?
>>7704160
You know there's a problem in society when I know someone who has an IQ of 85, no maths degree from Cambridge, and still struggles to find jobs paying the amount he feels he should be paid 1,000,000,000$.
It's either you make your own business or you get lucky landing a crazy good job being CEO or something close to it.
Thoughts?
>>7704167
When you're smarter than 99% of the population, you would probably feel that you should be paid accordingly.
>>7704191
You get paid for producing something that people need and selling it, or for producing something and convincing people that they need it, or producing something... or producing something..
Just because you have a high I.Q. doesn't mean a god-damn mother-fucking thing.
Has math degree from Cambridge and can't get a job? Sounds like this person did a shit-tier job. Sounds like this person can't network. Sounds like this person can't communicate well with others. If shit doesn't get handed to you in this world, then you learn how to take it. This faggot obviously isn't as smart as you make he or she out to be.
The World’s First Reusable Rocket
Private spaceflight company Blue Origin recently uploaded a video. The clip highlights its team members’ reactions during the groundbreaking touchdown of the world’s first reusable rocket on Nov. 23.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igEWYbnoHc4
Looks staged to me
Damn cool.
This is basically the same thing that Musk is trying to do?
staged tribal psychosis
my ass
so /sci/ we all know that with current propulsion, interstellar travel is possible, but would take decades, even centuries. What are solutions to this?
Patience
WARP DRIVES
>>7704023
Dude weed
What is the best diet/food people should eat most?
The moderation and variety diet.
Noone likes that one though, it doesnt make them a special snowflake like pretending to be allergic to wheat or saying tomatoes are poison.
If you want to be smart then just eat a shitload of butter. Make it grass fed though
>>7704214
>eat a shitload of saturated fat
sounds like a great way to stiffen neuronal membranes and induce neurotrophin resistance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ViQEsoxWfE
Saw this video and immediately though of /sci/ when he mentioned how hard he had worked at school for his STEM qualifications. This is how literally most of you are going to end up.
>Muh pure unapplied science!
>Muh 12 hour workathons!
Yeah all of that leads to being a fat unemployed guy with no social skills whatsoever. I checked out of STEM in 2011, Do an art degree now just to bang bitches, my real career is programming which you absolutely don't need to go to university to learn.
>>7703863
5/10 OP
Replies guaranteed
:^)
>>7703863
>flabbergasted
>superlative
That is his problem, mate. I still remember how these words would come in vocabulary lists in high school grammar class. These are not normal speak words. These are vocabulary words. Nobody speaks like that.
>inb4 u r jst stoopid 4 his wurds
No. He is stupid. He is making a youtube video for a general audience. If he unironically believes that his best word choice is his high school vocabulary list that nobody then he is fucking stupid.
And I can already picture in it my head. Him going in an interview for a research position on a laboratory with a human resources guy and doing interview and then this guy goes full dictionary autism on him. Then the human resources guy remembers the other guy who interviewed who was really chill and seemed like someone the team would have a good time and just chose that other guy.
This guy is autistic. He deserves all he is getting.
Also, I'm not going to watch anymore of the vid so if anyone could tell me if one of his degrees is on pure mathematics I would really appreciate that.
>>7703948
>This guy is autistic.
And /sci/ isn't? Look me in the face and tell me that guy with his academic boasting and tryhard vocabulary isn't the average /sci/ poster.
