/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12518050
Hasn't it basically been impossible to buy into since the 2010s? I'm 25, so I became an adult in 2013, at which point a single Bitcoin was around $1,000, later dropping to $500.
Holy fuck, I just noticed, I got a $6,750 inheritance in 2014, if I'd invested in Bitcoin, I could've bought 11 BTC, now worth $287,346. Ahh!

>1st day of 8 week general surgery placement

>First day of an 8 week general surgery placement
>Come back from an enjoyable year of research and a long elective in anaesthetics
>Completely ignored by the consultant
>grilled on anatomy by the registrar
>All the F1s and SHOs go for lunch without me
>Tutted at for not saying yes to theatre time to see a lap chole

Not sure I can last without a few evening bevvies every night until the Christmas break lads

>Just started my gastro rotation
>Elderly lady admitted to the ward with decompensated liver cirrhosis a week ago
>confused and completely jaundiced
>husband with her is chill
>Turns out he's from my hometown
>Sit chatting with him for ages about his wife and their marriage
>Next day
>Go into their sideroom on the wardround
>She's gotten much worse
>Clotting is fucked
>Consultant says she is close to the end
>Husband just looks down
>Finish wardround and go to see him
>He's just sat there holding her hand
>Starts to thank me for talking to him loads, says he knows his wife was listening
>Gets out his wallet and trys to show me photos of his wife and him when they were young
>You only saw her when she was here
>He's looking right at me
>In the photos her eyes are clear white, her skin is palest pink and her hair is black with no gray
>He starts to cry

What's the saddest thing you've seen during med school?

ITT: I have to choose either a shitty undergrad course or take a gap year and I don't know what to do

Being this year's high school graduate I applied to study computer science as I am interested in the subject with particular interest in programming and artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, due to personal problems that are now past me, I underperformed greatly on my finals and only got accepted into an ICT course. My only two options now are to either take a gap year or enroll in the ICT course. The thought of being a whole year behind, feeling stuck and watching as everyone else makes progress in their lives just to get to reattempt my finals seems excruciating. As I'm currently under the care of a psychotherapist and doing a whole lot better, I'm afraid taking a gap year would eventually make my depression come back and render my reattempting finals efforts futile. On the other hand, as I want to become a programmer in the future, I could go for the ICT course and then choose some computer science master's. The thing is, I'm not sure if I'd get accepted for such a master's given how different the ICT syllabus is compared with CS. Even if I managed to do that, it looks to me like I'd be at a big disadvantage anyways competing for jobs with people who had started studying programming with their undergrad course, not just their master's. I'd also have to spend three and a half years studying something I'm not really interested in. Even though I'm finally getting a grip and erasing mental turmoil from my life, I have a very hard time deciding what I want to do in this situation and I would love to get to know your insight/recommendations. My goal is to become a programmer through choosing the best way out of the situation I've found myself in.

>>10635736
They're not viable power sources, actively shill against nuclear, and will raise my power bill considerably. A friend signed up for solar in a provider state and his energy costs more than doubled. The adoption of shit technology raises cost and fools people into believing a fantasy that the entire world is going to run on windmills, sunshine and candy, making them think that big bad nuclear will never be needed.
I do not believe in market solutions. I do not believe in democracy. We need a state transition to nuclear power as the French did. Pretending to be totally impartial only gives room for a corrupt industry filled with charlatans and venture capitalists to actively sabotage the only concrete solution eliminating fossil fuel power stations. Wind and solar industry can go hell, along with their lobbying efforts.

Fuck guys, I used to believe accelerating change would really take effect in our lifetime but I’ve this growing feeling that we were born a generation or two too early for the last big leaps that’d make us eternal.

>>9845486
>so you have some genetic defect, why would you cite yourself? with the proper education you would be in the 180s and inventing nuclear fusion, you're a waste of cells desu.
Dude, wtf, that's harsh. :(

>>9824771
>tfw computer science is actually the most important field today

>>9762920
>>9762928
OH FUCK, THAT FUCKING CATERPILLAR!
I guess:
>5+(2^2*5)=25
Is actually:
>6+(2^2*5)=26
Fuck, how could I be so unobservant?

I need to get out of this cage.

>>9676352
Oh fuck, I just spotted my error.
>5+2b=13-5=8
8 = value of both whistle pairs
Therefore, a single whistle pair is 4.
Therefore, the value of a single whistle is 2, not 4.
Therefore, the value of whistle boy is 5-2=3, not 1.
Oh, shit, oh no, oh fuck...
>*gets the wine bottle*

>>8963842
>Discussing with Mochizuki abut CM-fields and Shimura curves.
This is giving me chills.
>tfw this will never be you.

>>8388922
>ace all tests ever with minimal or no studying
>remember that there are people a lot smarter than me and i'm basically the 5'11" of intelligence