>>7652770
>>people who only use single letters to name functions and sets
Programmers gtfo.

>people who use log instead of ln

Log will always be base 10 to me :3

>>7652882
This so much

>>7659872
>what is the bible
Shit is the only reason the average person knows how to read

>>7659878
>the only reason the average person knows how to read

[citation needed]

>implying it's more influential by the bible
Atheists are the delusional ones desu

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>>7659694
Because you're pushing the limits of what humanity can do. You're thinking about abstract concepts and forcing your body to answer questions more complex than. How to avoid bear? How to get food? How to fuck her? etc. The latter is your natural desire.

Sometimes brilliant people break down and just retreat to the wilderness as primitives because they crack.

>>7659694
I doubt it's something you'll have to worry about.

>>7659711
I don't claim to be super intelligent or anything, I'm still above the average person in terms of problem solving skills however, granted that's probably a part of the whole autism thing

Apparently according to new research autism was a trait that was useful in hunter gatherer tribes where there was less social interaction to be had and the enhanced reasoning skills it tends to give let it survive though generations, or something like that

>>7657498
>why not
Exactly.

>>7657498
>would you work for a defense contractor?

Yep

>Why?

Because humans have been killing each other since time immemorial, if I didn't work that job someone else would and if no one worked that job then we'd just go back to killing each other with large bits of rock and pointy sticks.

>>7657498
Yes
>Good pay
>Looks good on resume
>I have no morals

>>7656863
The human race being just as shit as it always was in new ways, and maybe new places.

It'd be good for the universe if we never managed to leave Earth. We're going to spread like a disease.

>>7656863
Three primary possibilities:

1.Humans remain on earth. Humans continue being humans. Theres pain, war, struggle, despite some things being improved. Everyone keeps on getting by, particularly poor places get richer, etc.

2. Humans leave earth. Basically precisely above except we also have people on other planets. Cool!

3.Industrial society collapses and we go back to preindustrial living. Humans continue being humans just as they did for thousands of years.

>>7656866
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>>7656869
Not evil, intrinsically broken. We aren't able to be or create anything we don't hate on some level. This is potentiated by existing in a group.

>>7656787
Satan? Is that you?

>>7656787
>[Any question about fundamentals that would take me less than a minute to review]
>Recall from [exact subsection/equation reference to a textbook in another course that they used 2 years ago].
I love watching them freeze up and error while considering that I'm expecting them to remember everything they learned in precise detail. The smart ones start panicking and reviewing, the rest just get depressed.

>>7656787
>Hand wave hard proofs, go through easy proofs with infuriating detail.

Guilty as charged :^)

>>7654887
What on this green earth is happening in your pic?

are they convex? Then use separating axis theorem. If you are trying to make your own collision detection system, just use bullet.

>>7654894
for all shapes

I'm looking for a general solution

>>7654910
You can't detect collision for real, any-shape because you can't represent it in computer memory. You need to simplify it first.
Do you want shape based on triangles or voxels or mathematical perfect primitive shapes like spheres or cylinders? 2D or 3D or higher dimensions?

I've TA'ed calculus and a bunch of people failed if that counts. Derivatives are some wack shit, but I think what holds most people back is the algebra rather than the concepts and the formulas.

>>7653079
This to be honest family, more so when integrating, algebraing the fuck out of functions to fit the formulas is the hard part, mostly because relies on mathematical intuition and algebraic experience more than actual knowledge of what your Calculus book says.

>>7653072
>Derivatives some wack shit man
You better get the fuck out of here with that weak shit.

Deriviatives are literally the easiest part of calculus. The operators take two seconds to complete, and the chain rule is only mildly complex.

Calculus is the shit son. You better read the Principia and realize how much of an ingrate you are.

>>7652691
>Art
>Discover
>Understand
>Design

Kek.

Why women?

At least STEAM rhymes with meme.

>>7652707
>At least STEAM rhymes with meme.
what

>>7652676
>synchronise their clocks

whooops

>>7652676
Think about this.

How do they synchronize their clocks?

What is the physical method of determining synchronisity?

>>7652676
those names seem familiar

I don't understand what you're saying.

Calculators take a taylor series approximation that's good enough for anything.

>>7650963
[math]tan(x)=sin(x)/cos(x)[/math]
[math]cos(x)=sin(x)*tan(x)[/math]
[math]sin(x)=cos(x)*tan(x)[/math]
:^)

>>7650411
Because if we had no attraction we wouldn't really care about reproducing. Attraction brings competitiveness which brings survival of the fittest.

>>7650545
>Why are women attractive?
Scent, associative factors, and tendencies of the brain when processing shapes and conceptualizing. Why does some food taste good and others not? It's of the same basis.

The only odd part is how these mate selection heuristics come into play to begin with. Some of it can be explained, others are a bit harder. Like choosing women that aren't just genetically fit, but have behaviors suggesting they'll be viable partners to work with and...
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>>7650545

better question, why are some women NOT attractive.

Let's just name all those space probes we sent out to explicitely analyise other planets and moons for forms of life.

Uuhhhh.

>>7649030
to counter this, if non life can produce life then surely one of the other earth like planets would have evolved an intelligent form of life capable of receiving our communication signals. the way a habitable planet forms isn't unique to earth and thus there must be billions of earth like planets out there -- and none of them can communicate with us.

>>7649019
>hen surely one of the other earth like planets would have evolved an intelligent form of life capable of receiving our communication signals.

It only has been very recently that we were able to detect other planets at all, nevermind those with actual possible living conditions. Then there is the thing that just because a planet can sustain life, it doesn't mean it can sustain very complex life. And thirdly, even if has been listening to all those different exoplanets for the...
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lack of a sex life

>>7648230
Owning a mirror

Can either be strictly psychological, strictly physiological, or both.

I'd wager it's usually a bit of both. Antidepressants should be an absolute last resort, but unfortunately GPs (and to a lesser extent, psychiatrists) give em out like candy. Further solidifying their place in our great "if X then Y" culture.

> how hard is it to get a in research once you've got your PhD?
It's trivial. You've already been collaborating with some people in your field by then, and the whole point of doing a PhD is to prepare you to do research independently. You'll have friends in your field or similar enough fields, you'll be invited to conferences to meet people, and so on.

Most people carry on with some aspect of their PhD work that they didn't get to do while they were finishing their thesis. Typically, you'll have a dozen...
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>>7637688
>It's very hard to get a get a full time, tenure-track job these days
>and develop strong feelings of bitterness about the whole broken system.
Isn't that more of an American issue?

Why is everyone in a Math PhD autistic?

>undergrad in math grad class
>doing homework
>submit correct proof
>grader is a PhD student
>get points off for referencing a theorem in our textbook instead of proving the case yourself
>get points off for assuming things proven in undergrad analysis instead of proving them all over again

At this point I'm going to get a B...
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