/sci/'s opinion on this book?
>>7583734
Never read it, never will.
>>7583734
Ruined? Is this a joke or this idiot actually trying to refute relativity?
Some idiot whining that Einstein didn't come up with relativity. Instead he says Poincare, Maxwell, Lorentz and others did.
How would you introduce modern technology into a midevial kingdom?
I just woke up from a dream where I was in this situation. The kingdom was a low fantasy Narnia without any magic. I ended up being killed just for talking about trains and jets to entertain a few nobles.
Now I'm wondering what would be the best way to bring a world like that at least to the 19th century. I would rather give them something besides weapons, so what would be the best thing to start with, that you could acutally do by yourself?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur's_Court
>>7583121
Teaching them basic chemistry might be a good way to start.
Impressive and easy to do
>>7583121
>Travel back in time, to the Middle Ages
>Find the nearest settlement
>Walk in town, show the commoners my smartphone
>People start freaking out about it; I try to tell them it's just electricity flowing in a circuit within the phone
> They still don't get it
>They accuse me of witchcraft
>The local guards arrest me and bring me to the local lord's court for trial
>I tell the lord how my smartphone works
>Obviously, he ain't buying it
>I'm shoo'd out of the court and brought outside to the prisoner stocks by guards
>They empty all of my pockets, including my phone
>They stick me in the stocks
>The local magistrate obtains my phone
> Turns out I forgot to turn off my camera app before traveling
> Magistrate inadvertently takes a picture of my misery while inspecting my phone
if you got less than 8 hours of sleep, 7 hours of sleep. Could you take 20 minute naps every hour that you're awake to make up for that missed hour? Would your body be better if you did? I learned in biology that missing a certain amount of sleep disrupts your natural biological processes
>>7583095
length is not so important. consistency is key - sleep during the same hours.
>>7583095
You can't make up for loss of sleep.
>>7583149
your body makes up for lost rem when it gets the chance....
What jobs are out there for a Math major? What jobs for a Stats major?
>>7581241
Academia and academia.
>>7581241
Maybe engineering. But depends on your minor.
>>7581241
Normally, actuary.
But if you have connections and/or technical certifications on any other field you could work anywhere from a software company to an engineering company.
Why is the universe fine tuned for life?
Define "fine tuned"
>>7578911
Use "google"
>>7578907
It's not.
Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Threads
>Post all your /sci/ related questions here.
>Thread for all small Qs&As
>>7573555
does homework help count?
You're supposed to use the Zwall*A = N/4v * root(8RT/piM) but the numbers don't work out when solving for N.
dumb question, i realize, but why are 1 and 2 in this order? they both have 2 significant resonance structures, so is it the fact that the charge is on oxygen that pushes 1 over 2?
What is the difference between this thread and the stupid questions thread?
The place for asking questions that won't create a hundred-reply flame war.
What arrangement of lenses would I need to capture light from 360° around, beam it to a room at an arbitrary location, and then project the light around the room?
> capture light from 360°
is it going to be floating in the air ?
>>7568695
I was thinking a slender pillar, but now that I think of it, floating isn't entirely unreasonable.
Is it math or maths?
I wonder, what does /sci/ think of pic related? Over time, I've increasingly noticed that this board is full of high schoolers and people who genuinely believes the 300k starting meme and dismiss engineering immediately as cock sucking, without even thinking of how good it actually is as a degree for someone who wants a good paying job.
Anyway, as a maths undergrad, I'm most interested how highly this picture rates engineering. /biz/ gives me the impression that it's over saturated, and therefore your probability of being employed, even with the appropriate degree is very low (...and probably even lower with a slightly different degree, like I have no idea why anyone would hire me for an engineering job rather than an engineer, although I do understand the case for employing non-finance people for finance).
So /sci/, thoughts?
>>7573475
anyone here computer engy master race
Do you honestly believe everyone who is in engineering is smart enough to be an engineer? And yes I agree. 90K starting comp eng master race here.
How can a plant knows how something looks like?
>>7582841
God my friend. Let the fedoras rage.
>>7582878
Well played not OP
Que pedo wey
Why are some people so skeptical of science or hesitant to believe conclusions drawn through scientific methods?
I tried to explain relativity to a friend recently and she told me it was strange and she had a hard time accepting it, to be fair it can be a bit strange, but here's the thing she believes in all kinds of /x/ things like demons and shit.
It really struck me how she could easily accept those things but relativity was too "strange".
Why is it that you can present a person with scientific models of how the world works, with evidence, and they will be hesitant to accept it but you know tell them time is controlled by a time demon and they jump on it like "oh yea that makes sense!"
As much as I hate the cliche, reality often is stranger than fiction.
>>7585555
People it more comforting that conscious forces are controlling things because they're easier to relate with.
Nothing is more terrifying than the realization that reality can't be reasoned with.
Also, checked
Strang's Linear Algebra lectures are god-tier
Never felt like I really understood linear algebra from my own uni lectures
>>7583331
That's real neato and all, but can he perform trice iterated integration?
>>7583331
Strang is top tier
>>7583337
The insincere smile actual autists put on really creeps me out
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Specialized in thermofluids in mechanical engineering, but I want to work on space hardware after my masters (Im in purdues aero astro masters program). People are just expecting me to continue on with my knowledge of thermofluids etc and dont really see my work as "astronaut experience." Have I made a grand mistake? I specialized in fluids because it was my only way into a top program like this, but now im competing with 22 year olds with flight experience whose dads were astronauts
>born just in time to see the colonization of the solar system
>born just in time to walk on Mars
>born just in time to see America develop 7 new rockets in 10 years
>born just in time to see the first dedicated ice giant exploration missions
>born just in time to see industry set up on the moon
>born just in time to learn what dark matter and energy are
>born just in time to see fusion power happen
feels good man
>>7580547
>tfw world governments focus on retarded shit like taxes and gender equality instead of advancing humanity and following our manifest destiny to the heavens
I wish Hitler were still here.
We'd be on fucking Alpha Centauri by now
Is Fortran a good first programming language? I'm transferring from a CC to a 4 year college next semester. One of the first courses I'll take is an intro programming for physics majors that uses Fortran. They also use C++ but that seems to come towards the end of the course.
Would it be good to start trying to learn Fortran now? Or pick a different language to get comfortable with before I have to take that class?
fortran? If they plan on wasting your time with shit like that, maybe don't even go there?
>>7583425
Do you want to do numerical analysis? Go with fortran.
Do you want to do literally anything else? Don't go with fortran.
Fortran is really awful, but also it's dead easy to do simple things, so it might be an okay introduction to programming. It's not as nit-picky as C++.
It'll introduce bad habits that you'll never get out of if you decide to learn high level programming languages later on in life. But it kind of depends on what you want out of it. If those are the only programming languages you ever intend to use, then you may as well start learning it.
I'm currently doing large molecular dynamics simulations in Ruby. The savings in debug and development time more than offset any performance losses from using a high level language. But if you're not going to use it in your class, maybe hold off on that.
How is warfare in space gonna look like?
>hurl asteroid the size of the moon towards your planet
>watchu gonna do when they come for you, bad boy
>>7582991
If there were spaceships armed with weapons they'd be so far apart that they couldn't see each other, also because of the distance the last known location on radar or whatever they have would not be wholly reliable for a moving ship so you'd need scatter weapons or fleets of drones
mostly bombs
ITT: We post titles of research papers.
Others, without googling, try to guess if that title is real, or made up.
>>7582205
itt OP uses /sci/ to come up with a research paper title
>>7582205
The Knowledge Gradient with Logistic Belief Models for Binary Classification
>>7582205
Vacuum configurations for superstrings
![Fortran_acs_cover[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qitTKTs.jpg "Fortran acs cover[1]")
