/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10495776
>Those are the characteristics of a SLAVE.
Owned. haha

>cock-sucker machine

>>9983848
>>9983854
>Not having PhD when you come out of womb
Step up your game plebs

Why does light have a speed limit if it has no mass?

I've thought about this a ton. Unironically segregate students of different talent levels into separate schools entirely. Sort of like the "gymnasium" system in Germany, or the "Liceum" in Italy for the brightest, where the average college-bound kid of above average iq gets into a regular prep school, and the average iq goes into skilled trades, and so on. Give every 12yo an iq test and put them in different schools depending on their iq.

The top 5% (future physics/pure math geniuses, PhDs, brain surgeons, etc)

>elite classical education with greek and latin, and other languages like french, german, and russian which you can pick from which are taught in an immersion setting
>do mathematical proofs and math through differential equations
>teach them advanced philosophy like kant and wittgenstein
>reading literature in foreign languages
>teach questioning authority

The next 15% (top 20%, upper middle class programmers, management, engineers, etc)

>average prep school curriculum
>ap level classes
>1 foreign language
>calculus or w/e

The next 30% (top 50%, skilled tradesmen)

>trade school focusing on skilled trades
>glass worker, welder, carpenter, etc
>no foreign language needed

The next 30% (top 80%, brainless manual labor)

>teach them how to not chimp out
>teach them to obey authority

The retards:

>a complete waste of time educating them
The problem with school is putting kids of different iqs all under the same roof. Especially when that includes blacks, other undesirables, etc. We are wasting the talent of the brightest kids by making them sit in classes that are extremely boring for them when they could be doing college level material 5-6 years earlier easily. A lot of the issues with the school system (other than the fact that it beats obedience into your head) are because of this.

Find a flaw with this system, protip; you can't.

>>9832692
I mean it's hard to draw conclusions without looking up stats, but a lot of natural products are also toxic or non-specific. If anything, synthetic compounds are easier to produce analogues for (and it would be easier to assess the toxicity of metabolic degradation products and shit).

I feel like as a consumer/patient it shouldn't matter to you - by the time a drug gets to your hands it's been through so many tests that the bad ones have (mostly) been weeded out and I don't see why a synthetic compound would slip through the cracks better than a natural product. I DO get what you're saying, though - I've noticed a lot of medicinal chemistry has a fetish for flat aromatic molecules and those have less stereochemical information to bind with, which I'd imagine would decrease selectivity. The flatland thing probably makes manufacture and research insanely easier/faster too.

Your idea of natural products isolation is pretty much spot on, except I work with bacteria so I also do large scale fermentation and I also do all the bioassays myself so there's a lot of tissue culture work involved. By far the majority of my time is spent fucking around with the HPLC though.

Right now, getting time on the spectrometer is the limiting factor for me.

>>9407353
>tfw to intelligent too get gf

Does anyone know how reliably you can estimate IQ from combined verbal + quant scores on the GRE? saw the IQ thread but never took an IQ test so I'm curious

How do I create a new theorem in mathematics?

Why hasn't a gamma ray burst destroyed Earth yet?

>>8652362
no one's posted my favorite yet

>>8632379
>tfw to intelligent to lift

>>8566238
having a 160+ IQ

>>8558868
In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area.

An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.

My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.
I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).

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>>8555509
Seeing as I'm the most intelligence of anyone on this bored, I'll obviously be the leader

>tfw too intelligent but lazy.