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I'll start. Mikhail Gromov. Transformed and essentially created the modern field of symplectic topology, created the field of geometric group theory, won the Abel prize and a shitton of other prestigious prizes, still teaches and studies various topics including mathematical biology (known to attract legends).
>>9380392Tao literally quotes John Oliver youtube clips in his political arguments though.
>>9378894John Milnor, essentially created the field of differential topology. Invented surgery theory which led to a proof of the generalized Poincaré conjecture in higher dimensions. Discovered exotic spheres. Is a very gifted expositor.
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>>9378894And what has his work done to better out society and prepare us for space travel?
>>9381592https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/06/04/it-ought-to-be-common-knowledge-that-donald-trump-is-not-fit-for-the-presidency-of-the-united-states-of-america/
>your subject>a subject you wish you'd done instead and why
>>9378644same here, though I switched to chemistry form molecular biology, but I guess my passion is to be a metallurgist and just build bikestechnically I still can I guess
>>9380367what is math if not numbers then
>>9381120>"Cyber Security" degreeThe fuck does it cover and why isn't it just a math or CE degree?
>>9376784I'm the guy you replied to; sorry I couldn't answer your question earlier but here goes.First, don't listen to this >>9377026 degeneracy. If you need to explain the value of philosophy to someone, you shouldn't.Second, you listen to me and you listen to me good, motherfucker. If you're going into philosophy for any reason other than you absolutely love it and want to go all the way and work in academia, you're wasting your money. If you're going into philosophy with any attitude other than the one where you're going to be giving 100 percent effort, week in, week out, you're wasting your time and you're not gonna make it. 3.7+ (major) GPA philosophy undergrads are a dime a dozen these days and the least you're going to have to do to even stand a chance is to make sure you get the highest GPA you can get. Quit gaming, quit jacking off, and quit wasting time. You're going to have to start living and breathing philosophy. Read more than is asked of you, study harder than is asked of you, and write more papers than is asked of you. Attend all conferences and lectures and offer to help your professors. Attend office hours if you don't understand something and join your institution's philosophy club as soon as possible. Try your best to rise up the ranks. If you're an anti-social introverted motherfucker, you're going to have to start stepping out of your comfort zone.If you think I'm being overly-dramatic, don't take my word for it. Check out http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/. Go through the different sections and read about how seemingly impossible it is to "make it" in philosophy. You're entering a merciless, cutthroat world and you're going to have to hit the motherfucking ground running, anon.Cont.
>>9381638Third, good for you for being into math and physics. I study philosophy, math, and physics at the same time and during my free time. If I'm not in class, eating, exercising, socializing, or sleeping, I'm studying more than is expected of me. Much more. This is what you're going to need to do. You don't need to have an expert-level grasp of math and physics, but it should definitely be above average (all calculus + some linear algebra and analysis, all general physics + some astrophysics and quantum mechanics). Reserve your expertise for philosophy and remember a jack of all trades makes a master of none.Fourth, know that part of the reason I'm writing all this is because of my disappointment in the choices I made. I graduated undergrad with a 3.3 in philosophy and took next to no math and science. If I ever want to make it into a top PhD program, I'm going to need to bust my ass for my master's. I'm literally going to have to do double if not triple the work my peers will be doing, then network really well on top of that, and maybe I just might make it (if I'm VERY lucky). I start in Fall of 2018 but I'm already studying. See what I mean? Don't be me, anon. You will have to pay tenfold for the mistakes you make in undergrad; you need to start strong and finish strong. Don't just assume physics and math PhD's are more difficult so philosophy should be a cakewalk. "Making it" is just as difficult in philosophy and perhaps even more so considering that math and physics PhD's can go work in an industry if they fail at academia. You will not have that privilege. Make sure you don't need it.Or, if you're just majoring in philosophy because you're lazy and want to game 8 hours a day during undergrad, ignore all I've said and gently kill yourself.Good luck, anon!
When working through a textbook, do you guys do every exercise or just enough until you feel you the concept?
>>9381328The other thread just informed me that apparently every book on this chart is a meme. I don't know what to believe anymore.
>>9381385Only use books for history and english.
>>9381385When given two options, definitely don't try to side with 4chan.
>>9381328Depends on how much time I want to spend on the exercise/subject. Some questions present methods of solving them that aren't in any of the others, and some questions by themselves are totally unique to all others in the exercise. Exposing yourself to a variety of question types and having a bredth of knowledge rather than a feel for a concept is far better imo, however for test preparations sake I would spread out my time accordingly.
>>9381649Mostly this.I try to do all theory type exercises, plus at least half of all other exercises plus whatever other exercises seem weird/different/hard.
Who wants to build a quantum computer with me?
>>9380732We are aware of how difficult this task is. It is not something we woke up a couple of days ago and decided to do. We have been working on this for the past year or so.We also have someone who does undergrad research on superconducting quantum computers at Cornell. He taught us a lot in the early months of this project. We are now confident that we know the field pretty well.
>>9376091That's not really an algorithm. Still kind of interesting though.
Hey, do you need someone with the knowledge of RSFQ circuit design?
>>9381304You are right. I shouldn't have called it an algorithm. You can implement the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm using 2 qubits.
>>9375971Why do you want to build your own when you can use IBM's?
How amazing is this spider>other than being named after evolutions greatest scientist>only spider which can spin web over a large river>silk 10x tougher than kevlar>evolved web spinning abilities not used by any other known spiderAnyone here familiar with silk research? I mean this silk has incredible use for almost every material and electrical structure.
>>9379797This should be enough to peek some interest hopefully.The paper reports that using laboratory techniques developed by Wang -- "this takes time and patience" -- spider silk conducts heat at the rate of 416 watts per meter Kelvin. Copper measures 401. And skin tissues measure .6."This is very surprising because spider silk is organic material," Wang said. "For organic material, this is the highest ever. There are only a few materials higher -- silver and diamond."Even more surprising, he said, is when spider silk is stretched, thermal conductivity also goes up. Wang said stretching spider silk to its 20 percent limit also increases conductivity by 20 percent. Most materials lose thermal conductivity when they're stretched.
>>9379804I understand. Im in the same boat, hence i was hoping to find someone who could contribute.
>>9379805"Pique". Pique some interest. Not peek, you nastly little science-voyeur.
>>9379850Judge others not on their education, but on their love of learning. - me
>>9379863Bump
>let
>>9381519I shouldn't have laughed as hard as I did at this.
>>9381519Let [math]OP \in\ \{x| x \space is \space a \space faggot\} [/math]
>(Why?)
>necessary and sufficient
>>9381519That cat has eosinophilic granuloma on its lower lip. It is suffering from allergic reaction.
How do I increase my creativity?
http://www.testmycreativity.com/
>>9379583did I make it to 2 points? can my father be proud already?
>>9379643>Then sober up and crawl out of the schizm.Stopped reading therekys toolfag
>>9379583r8
This thread is for questions that don't deserve their own thread.Tips!>give context>describe your thought process if you're stuck>try wolframalpha.com and stackexchange.com>How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>come up with a clever name for this NeanderthalPrevious thread >>9368782
>>9381496But neither of those are math courses.
>>9381609except they are
>>9381611It's rather obvious that a vulgar peasant such as yourself wouldn't be able to see the truth.
>>9381617I suppose to you symplectic geometry isn't math either..
>>9381640This post is pure retardation.
I think both answers are correct>2 = 10 min and 4 = 20 min so 3 = 15 min is mathematically correct>3 = 20 minis also correct because you need to cut two time to get 3 pieces
>>9380894Why?
wow op that was very clever and insightful very smart you are correct!
>>9380693The board is round.
>>9380762The question says "saw a board INTO two/three pieces" so the right interpretation is wrong
>>9380696>a few daysLiterally how new are you?This shit is 5+ years old.
What do evolutionary biologists, neuroscientists and other related subfields think of IQ tests as an accurate measurement of intellectual capacity? Is there any reason to believe that human ethnic groups evolved genetically to have different average intellectual capacities?
>>9380026/pol/ is strong in this one
>>9380026See.>>9381531IQ and race aren't science.Try again, brainlet.
>>9380166https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E91bGT9BjYk
>>9381601IQ is the most scientific thing to ever come out of psychology, altho you probably think psychology isn't science anyways(like most of /sci/)
>>9375285People who deny IQ and psychology as a whole are likely those that want to keep their preciousniggers from feeling inferior to the rest of the population. Posting this is really good bait though,you attract both the left and right to fight over this shit and present their evidence in the mostbiased way possible. Good job.
My friend says that aliens don't exist because we'd be able to detect planets with a noticeable amount of oxygen. He also mentioned that any intelligent life would have been using radio waves or in the case of one more advanced than ours, a Dyson sphere because it's the most efficient way to collect energy. That or some other megastructure would allow us to easily detect them, so he concluded that it's just us based on that and the mediocrity principle.Is he right? Tbh I don't have much I can use to argue against it. Seems legit.Please note that he failed out of college and majored in cooking so he's not an expert or anything.
>>9379727Wow, where can we get those brushes? It would be awesome to just whisk a few times and BTFO the other guy 100% of the time!
>>9380552It's not post ironic, it's ancient 4chan history. In a time long ago, when moot still ruled the lands, >implying and ISHYGDDT were the cool 4chan memes. And yeah I probably do have some kind of mental disorder, I think most people posting on this imageboard has one.
>>9379721Assuming he's right, then they could easily still be extremely far away and we wouldn't be able to detect any of this shit for another trillion years.
Life has existed in our planet for more than 4 billion years. For 2.5 billion of those years there was no multi-cellular life. For 2 billion of those years there were no eukaryotes. It didn't have to happen. Two billion years of random mutations and it happened, but we don't know how likely that was, maybe even with that many attempts we were still as lucky as winning the lottery, it might have never happened. So I agree it's likely that there's alien life within range, but it's probably unicellular.
>>9380588>ancient Nigga they're a few years old at best. Ancient memes are longcat and Milhouse is not a meme.
So, brainlets?A or D?
I think it's C.
>>9376657Top kek. I kek'd too hard at this.
>>9379373Let N be a countable subset of [math]\mathbb{R}^2[/math] show that [math]\mathbb{R}^2\backslash N[/math] is path connected
>>9376658>>9376735>>9377196>>9377252>>9381517This, all the others are brainlets
>>9376603You do realize that D was put there just to filter out the brainlets of the brainlets who are incapable of finding any pattern more complex than fucking number addition, right?
Is Chemical Engineering the most well-rounded STEM field?>Chemistry>Physics>Engineering>MathChemists don't cover the practical or industrial application.Physicists don't cover them either.Engineers often don't take more than Gen Chem 1 and maybe 2.Mathematicians are basically philosophers who focus on numbers and ignore that Kant was a cunt.So if you want to study in depth in the fields of math, physics, chemistry, and engineering, isn't ChemEng the best choice? Maybe Petroleum as well since it's basically OChemEng?
>>9380079A round bottom flask is fine for the lab when you're working with small volumes and only two distinct phases. But imagine trying to scale that process up to distill thousands of liters at a time. The surface are of the distillation vessel to the fluid is drastically decreased. This makes it impossible to evenly heat the fluid leading to local zones of high temperature were both components would become volatile, and therefore your distillate would be contaminated. Furthermore, a larger round bottom flask would be far too energy intensive and extremely slow... not cost efficient in the slightest. To get around this ChemEng's design distillation towers (see pic related). The basic principle is to have a liquid phase falling downward and a vapor phase travelling upward through the column. There is energy transfer between the phases, so we expect an increasing temperature gradient as we travel up the column. The flow of the fluids is held up by partitioning the column into sections. In each section there is a different vapor-liquid equilibrium because of the temperature gradient. By adjusting the number of equilibrium stages, feed flow rate and location, heat duties of the rebolier and condenser, and the size of the column we can target specific levels of separation for large volumes of fluid. This can end up being a fairly complex design process, to the point where there are entire texts dedicated to it. Distillation design by Kister would be a great starting point if you want to learn more.
>>9374771Chemical Engineers use them all, and are unique at the same time.HAIL CHEMENG
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>>9380331Cool shit mayne
>>9380331I admire your passion for chemical engineering
Does human races/populations exist?
>>9381514>empires crumbled to dust and the people scatteredThere's more aspects to this than just that one
>>9381488>>9381520if you argue that there is no such thing as dog races then I think this is a respectable position>>9381607This position shows resentment and evil, just because you would want to holocaust inferior races doesn't mean everyone else would. See a therapist, you disgust me.
>>9381618>1 bubonic plague kills 40% europeans and get invaded by nomads>20+ european diseases kill 90% Amerindians yet they survive but the civilizations collapseAmerindians had demonstrated even better behavior against such not-immunized diseases.Amerindian higher development rate is also historical.
>>9381624>you show resentment not meOk, bud. Race and IQ are still pseudoscience. Deal with it.
>>9381628>nu-uh!
