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Your thoughts on James Watson? All memes aside.
>>13108460This
>>13108409back to plebbit
>>13108900nothing scientific about this statement.Just a bigoted old white man
>>13108402His contributions to discoveries around DNA are overstated by his own admission. It was mostly all Crick due to his technical background in physics and insights into molecular biology/biophysics. Watson was a chad who wooed Franklin into giving him her data which Crick used to confirm his ideas, but that’s about it. You have to understand that, at the time, molecular biology wasn’t even a field, so Crick and a handful of others who took part in a migration from physics to biology were true pioneers in every sense. Watson is still incredibly based though. His vision, approach to science and commitment to truth are all commendable. He reminds of probably the most based Nobel Prize winner ever, Werner Forßmann (pic. related), who pioneered the field of cardiology. Do yourself a favour and look into that story today
>>13108968>nigger/women tier response
Share scientific secrets that you have discovered, autist.
>>13107661Stars a very very close. Astronomy is a meme. The inverse square law of light proves it. The serious astronomers already debunk the cosmological origin of the red shift.
I am the center of the universe. Nothing exists outside of my own perception. When I die, if that is even possible, everything seizes to be.
>>13110811dear anon, please have a long and prosperous life
>>13110811I was told this by so many autistic people you would believe. Most of them were in the department of astrophysics.
>>13110811>Hurr durr I control the universe>Too stupid to understand the difference between "cease" and "seize"
Is it possible for a country to fare better if they have educated economists in the government?How is it possible to predict the markets and economy based on old data and theory if it is based on present events?
>>13096258Alot of academic subjects borrow from science for there authority, which itself borrows from maths, and many of them are very shaky rigid constructs. Even alot of physics is shaky.I love academia but any rigid matrix will get outdated, problem is the courses are too rigid to adapt.
>>13108277>The most successful hedge fund which uses quants does microtransactions, like thousands of tiny transactions per second based on algorithms.i always thought that was mostly arbitrage where the money was madenever the less what little i know about the hft world seems to line up with what you say. the most successful hedge funds apparently make money during market crashes and recessions
>>13108645Speaking from experience (data engineer for investment shop).You're fairly spot-on, but missing the other half of the story. It's largely near-arbitrage (there are incredibly few "true" arbitrage opportunities in the market today), COMBINED with unparalleled access to markets and financing. The reason RenTech and the like can make so much has little to do with "incredible, near omniscient predictive abilities," but rather incredible access to structured derivative products with more favorable terms. Even more importantly is their access to exchanges. There's a reason quite a few high-frequency and quant shops focus so heavily on establishing proprietary low-latency connections to exchanges; milliseconds advantage can be massive.In the investment world, much like all other money making operations, it's far less about WHAT you now and far more about HOW you can get an outsized advantage relative to your competitors. "My Stanford and MIT statisticians are smarter than your Stanford and MIT statisticians," is not a reasonable business model, but brokering access to information, structured instruments and better exchange access sure as hell is.
>>13110724Also - 95% of modern buy and hold, total return investment management has nothing to do with economics and everything to do with having a knack for predicting investor appetite.You'd be better of reading investment firm white papers and top financial periodicals to get an idea about what the investment world is buzzing over, rather than learning macroeconomic and game theory. Economics (which I'd like to distinguish from econometrics) is largely pseudointellectual bullshit used to peddle ideological paradigms.
>>13094377Just because classical economics was founded on physics envy and utilizes math doesn't mean its science
What's his IQ?
>>13110889I don't know.That's why we do IQ tests, not just take a picture and say for how long we study
>>13110889>>>/vt/
Saw this posted around and I'm too much of a brainlet to understand the links. Can anyone who studied in the field verify this?
>>13110769You're in a thread talking about it, dumbshit...
>>13110788You're not on your home board anymore, dumbshit....
>>13109286>>13109276You'll be fine. Just don't get the shots and don't worry about it. You surely have many things in your life that need attention, pro-vaxx hysteria isn't one of them. Don't get the shot and move on to other things. It's fine.
>>13110793My God, you're dumb. I wouldn't doubt you're still in high school, please leave /sci/, it's not for you.
>>13110827Having followed /sci/ for a while, I would think that if an anon is "still in high school" that sort of makes them overqualified in comparison with the regular poster.
If it take 48 billion years for rubidium to decay into strontium and the universe is only 13ish billion years old how does strontium exist.
>>13106995dark matter
>>13107054Speed of light isn't a constant.
>>13106995is it a question?
>>13107083oh god my sides
>>13106995Dude... do you think the half that decays waits until the 48 billionth year before decaying all at once?
Previous one: https://archived.moe/sci/thread/13078783No meta this time. Talk about stupid questions only.Discussion Guidelines:1. Keep your posts stupid questions related.2. Career advice goes on >>>/sci/scg or >>>/adv/.3. Intelligent questions, research questions, and questions at grad school level go on >>>/sci/mg or stackexchange.4. Please abstain from using images as avatars when making your posts.5. Please abstain from posting meme and troll images and do not engage with such.6. Please abstain from engaging in off topic discussion with someone else.7. We don't care if you're a christian, muslim, trans, nazi, an attack helicopter or whatever, so don't post about it.8. We don't care if you hate a certain group of people, so don't post about it.9. We don't care if you're in high school or doing a PhD, so don't post about it unless it's related to mathematics.10. Ignore everyone that doesn't follow the previously stated guidelines. DO NOT REPLY TO THEM OTHERWISE YOU'LL BE GIVING THEM THE ATTENTION THEY WANT. IGNORE AND MOVE ON.
>>13110660yea, you try it (what other way is there anon)
>>13110660learning methods (and IQ) are nonsense invented by psychologists. you already know what you prefer, and if you don't, then just start by reading and doing practice problems like everyone else.
>>13110639yes
>>13110846thanks
Just trying to figure out how to do this method of undetermined coefficients question, can someone tell me what the assumed particular solution would be? I've never done a polynomial with a negative degree before so I'm not sure how to approach it. For the homogeneous solution, I got: c1e^-t + c2e^2t, and seeing as the complementary also have e^-t, should I bump that up with a (t)? Or does the polynomial 3t^-1 make it so that I don't need to bump it up? Fuck, this polynomial to the negative power has me tripped up.
What are /sci/'s thoughts on the Nimitz UFO case, where the Navy encounters objects with capabilities far beyond anything we know how to make?
>>13110514it has the benefit of always looking like a blurry dot in footage
>>13110514Resistance is futile.
>>13108731>>13107665>Nothing you said implies it's not mass hysteria.Exactly. Setting aside psyopped alien ships in blurry videos of questionable or even "official" orgin, most of the "themes" of alien encounters by regular people (even in unscientific eras) can be explained as psychological phenomenon of which mass hysteria is only one type. It is not far out science that people report lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis which is consistent with active interaction with "aliens" or getting abducted and probed, unable to move. We can't even define "consciousness" and we don't even know why we (and other mammals) sleep which one would think is a huge evolutionary disadvantage for an animal that is trying to avoid getting eaten. Psychology (study of the mind) is so primitive today it barely qualifies as a science. Focus on psychology, especially since it is probably a psychological operation (i.e. intentional manipulation) anyway. One thing that distinguish conspiracy thinking from rational analysis is that when challenged with counter arguments, new arguments are raised instead of questioning their presuppositions. We now live in an era where cameras and people are everywhere and yet these aliens are still "hovering just on the edge of hard observation" as someone noted upstream. xkcd even has a cartoon making this point.
>>13110514"What purpose would a flying cube inside a transparent sphere have" not "do".
>>13110814>mass hysteriaSounds inaccurate. How about "fringe hysteria"?
Does anyone have a double slit experiment that isn't a simulation where they show that after putting a detector right after the slit to detect which slit the electron/photon/atom passes through, it changes the interference pattern to to slits similar to what would be expected from a particle and not a wave? In every goddamn experiment, they show the first part with the interference patterns, but then just tell you that if you put an observer to detect which slit the particle passes through, the interference pattern changes to two lines, but never actually show this. Something is fucking fishy.
>>13110508deutsch, please leave
>>13110623Why do you give a shit about the duble slit experiment then? Interpretations of quantum mechanics is the only interesting thing about it. No one disagrees what happens if you preform the experiment, because QM is so incredibly precise and predictable. You might as well talk about the "Roll a ball down a ramp" experiment. Everyone already agrees on the outcome.
>>13110678>Why do you give a shit about the duble slit experiment then?Wave-particle duality.>Interpretations of quantum mechanics is the only interesting thing about itAbsolutely incorrect. The existence of wave-particle duality is completely independent of the interpretation. What we know for a fact is that photons and electrons exhibit BOTH particle and wave behavior with the double slit experiment. Interpretations of this involve HOW this duality occurs, which is the domain of philosophy. Quit marketing it as physics.
>>13110764What are you even talking about? I don't think you understand this enough to be arguing about it. Ill give it ago anyway, because I'm bored.>The existence of wave-particle duality is completely independent of the interpretation. Depending what you mean by wave-particle duality, yea this is true. Everyone agrees on QM.>What we know for a fact is that photons and electrons exhibit BOTH particle and wave behavior with the double slit experiment.... yea, the whole point of the thought experiment is to point out the apparent stange behavior. > Interpretations of this involve HOW this duality occurs, which is the domain of philosophy. Quit marketing it as physicsInterpretations of QM involve how QM relate to our actual reality. A mathematical theory of physics doesn't make any claims on what it actually means, no one is claiming otherwise, but its a really strange thing to bring up in a thread talking about the doubleslit experiment.Also, this was THE topic during the golden age of physics. Take your opinion on QM interpretations being talked about as physics with Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrödinger.
>>13110865>the whole point of the thought experiment is to point out the apparent stange behavior.What thought experiment? The double slit experiment is just that: an experiment. Any thought experiment is therefore de facto not based on evidence, and hence doesn't elucidate anything about "strange behavior".>Interpretations of QM involve how QM relate to our actual reality.Wrong. The FACT that photons and electrons exhibit both wave and particle behavior relates to our actual reality. The INTERPRETATION of such event has no impact on what we measure. Whether the Bohmian pilot-wave interpretation of the Copenhagen interpretation more accurately describes the event is a complete non-sequitur as anything else claimed by it is purely conjecture without other studies done. The more assumptions you bake into your interpretation (MWI, Simulation, etc.) the kookier your interpretation, and the less seriously I take it. Hence when you talk about MWI as the HOW for the wave and particle duality occurring in what we measure, I dismiss it as the nonsense it is.>its a really strange thing to bring up in a thread talking about the doubleslit experiment.If by "it's" you mean MWI, I agree.
>be me>reading some gay ass CEO dude's wiki>graduated high school a year "early"nigga, how tf do you graduate early? I took 5 AP exams senior year. How do you just get to skip senior year?
>>13108648I'm glad you held on anon. I think you understand more about yourself now than most of your peers, and I hope it's made you stronger.
>>13107200No, GATE is an afterschool program for extra 'enrichment' but it doesn't really do anything. But in the US kids can be moved forward a year if their teacher, parents, and (I think) school psych agree. There's a test involved and it's by request only. I did this myself, and I wouldn't say it's a particular benefit. >>13107091Yeah, this. Skipping a grade as a kid doesn't figure into it. Honestly there's no reason to want to do this. When I was a kid I thought it would be like, clawing back a year of my life from the school system. As an adult, now I realize I was living just fine back then, and it wasn't any worse than the working world. You'll live and die the same number of years, and this wouldn't help you get into a better college or career.
>>13109136I agree, and it's probably made him a hell of a lot more interesting as a person.
bump
>>13108576Oh no no no
If I toss a coin 6 times and it lands on heads those 6 times, if I assume it's not likely to land on heads a 7th time I'm committing a gambler's fallacy.But if you consider all the possible variations of 7 coin tosses, only 1 of those contains all heads, while there are 7 variations of 6 heads and 1 Tails. Is it not logical to think tails is likelier?Whats the fault in my judgement?
>>13110222Its a twitch file name. But nice try dimwit
I assume the coin is fair.>If I toss a coin 6 times and it lands on heads those 6 times, if I assume it's not likely to land on heads a 7th time I'm committing a gambler's fallacyyes>But if you consider all the possible variations of 7 coin tosses, only 1 of those contains all heads, while there are 7 variations of 6 heads and 1 Tails. Is it not logical to think tails is likelier?literally what?>Whats the fault in my judgement?Gambler's fallacy, probably. HHHHHHH is just as likely as HHHHHHT. Each flip is completely and utterly independent of the previous flip if the coin is fair.
>>13110120It means that you are in a simulation gone wrong.
>>13110684>I assume the coin is fair.Why would you assume that? Would you still assume that if 85 out of 85 flips were heads?
>>13110864>Why would you assume that?because that's the usual assumption when people pose epic coin-flipping hypotheticals>Would you still assume that if 85 out of 85 flips were heads?in real life? of course not
Why don't we dig a big hole that can shoot out rockets with some kind of crossbow mechanism?Wouldn't that save a lot of fuel?
>>13109620You're limited by the tensile strength of what you're using for the bow mechanism, and depending how much your rate of acceleration is it may be too high for humans. The latter issue is a problem with space guns.
What if you make a giant rail gun?
>>13110201why near the equator?
>>13110248How tight of a fit do you want? It's not like firing a bullet from a gun. What if it scrapes the sides?
the problem is the acceleration. it's easy, maybe even affordable, to build an electro magnetic slingshot to send a payload up at orbital speeds, but unless the slingshot is hundreds of kilometers long, any payload you send will get turned into a pancake at launch
Urban planning is science. Discuss urban planning.How possible do you think the 15 minute city is in North America? Personally I don't see it ever happening outside of ultra wealthy areas. I hardly even believe it exists outside of NA either.
>>13105288>How possible do you think the 15 minute city is in North America? Personally I don't see it ever happening outside of ultra wealthy areas. I hardly even believe it exists outside of NA either.Why wouldn't they exist? I definitely live in one I think.
>>13110162>I used to work in TsukubaDid you work for KEK?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEK
>>13110318Philadelphia
>>13110741kek
>>13110318DC is solid.
Why did determinants trigger him so? Was it autism?
>>13107563>Why did determinants trigger him so?Because most proofs can be made clearer when you don't use determinants. There's no need to introduce that extra layer of complexity.
>>13110107The (unique) alternating multilinear map from (R^n)^n to R, such that the usual basis gets mapped to 1.
>>13110107something something permutation something something multi-linear
Should I take linear algebra or just skip to differential equations?
>>13110821Take them at the same time if they let you. Otherwise, don't skip linear.
who is / was the best INDEPENDENT scientist?
>>13107560Enrico Fermi
>>13060318Bunch of irrelevant mathlets. Where the version of this but for mathematicians?
>>13110690this isnt what this thread is about...
>>13060318>INDEPENDENTwhat?
>>13060318Probably the best, if there's such a thing, independent scientist is Henry Cavendish. He discovered many things on his own, at his hoke, but because he was people shy he never communicated them or published them, so many other scientists who later discovered it on their own got the credit for his discoveries.
