/sci/ - Science & Math

So what does /sci/ use to take notes?

I've recently come to the realization that writing notes down takes fucking forever, and I figure technology these days may have the remedy, but the fact of the matter is that most of my classes are heavily math based, so most note taking software is only textbased.

So if I want to write a fraction or a subscript im fucked. Is there some app or software or tablet that has the remedy for this? What do you use to take notes?

>mfw when my gf decides to major in psychology

"Why hire an engineer? Did we run out of illegal immigrants?" - Richard Feynman

>>6153147
'It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is. Some years ago I had a conversation with a layman about flying saucers — because I am scientific I know all about flying saucers! I said “I don’t think there are flying saucers”. So my antagonist said, “Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it’s impossible?” “No”, I said, “I can’t prove it’s impossible. It’s just very unlikely”. At that he said, “You are very unscientific. If you can’t prove it impossible then how can you say that it’s unlikely?” But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible. To define what I mean, I might have said to him, "Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence." It is just more likely. That is all."

Is Richard Feynman popscience aswell ?

"Why hire an engineer? Did we run out of illegal immigrants?" - Richard Feynman

>(Reuters) - The White House announced new measures Wednesday to help increase the number of women in the science, math and technology fields as part of a celebration for the 40-year anniversary of a law prohibiting discrimination in education based on gender.
>The new guidelines are reinforcements to the law, known as Title IX.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/20/usa-whitehouse-titleix-idINL1E8HKJNC20120620

>At the same time, many contend that the current interpretation of Title IX by the OCR has resulted in the dismantling of men's programs, despite strong participation in those sports.[34] For example, though interest in the sport of wrestling has consistently increased at the high school level since 1990, [35] scores of colleges have dropped their wrestling programs during that same period.[36][37] The OCR's three-prong test for compliance with Title IX often is cited as the reason for these cuts.[37][38] Wrestling historically was the most frequently dropped sport,[38] but other men's sports later overtook the lead, such that according to the NCAA, the most-dropped men's sports between 1987 and 2002 were as follows: Cross country (183), indoor track (180), golf (178), tennis (171), rowing (132), outdoor track (126), swimming (125) and wrestling (121).[36]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX#Impact

So, how do you feel about this, /sci/?

You were saying?

Richard Feynman on global warming:

"Because of the success of science, there is, I think, a kind of pseudoscience. Global warming is an example of a science which is not a science; they don't do [things] scientifically; they follow the forms -- you gather data, you do so-and-so and so forth but they don't get any laws, they haven't found out anything.... You see, I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something, how careful you have to be about checking the experiment, how easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something, and therefore I see how they get their information and I can't believe they know it, they haven't done the work necessary, haven't done the checks necessary, haven't done the care necessary. I have a great suspicion that they don't know, that this stuff is [wrong], and they're intimidating people."

Still believe in global warming /sci? If so, what credentials do you have to prove that you are you a better judge than Richard Feynman?

oh?

"You might ask why we cannot teach physics by just giving the basic laws on
page one and then showing how they work in all possible circumstances, as we do
in Euclidean geometry, where we state the axioms and then make all sorts of deductions.
(So, not satisfied to learn physics in four years, you want to learn it in
four minutes?) We cannot do it in this way for two reasons. First, we do not yet
know all the basic laws: there is an expanding frontier of ignorance.

Second, the
correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas
which require advanced mathematics for their description.

Therefore, one needs
a considerable amount of preparatory training even to learn what the words
mean. No, it is not possible to do it that way. We can only do it piece by piece."

- Richard Feynman

Is it possible to learn physics by someone listing all necessary equations if you actually DO understand the requisite math?

anyone know who this dude is? my roommate has him as his desktop.

Just Feynman being Feynman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQai9QikTBI

The video starts at 6:34

do you agree about the nobel?

>>4085244

>it takes long to prove
>therefore it must be wrong

>ITT, times which made you realise your superior intelligence

>be in class
>have enzymes in metabolic pathways and enzyme inhibitors explained
>understand it the first time he tells us
>listen to him having to explain it to the rest of the class for the next 30 minutes. While I continue to read ahead.
MFW

ITT Notable intellectuals with unexpectedly low IQs.

Feynman - 125.

>>3706819
>five-factor model is superior because I said so
No

>Quit at number 18
>socre 110
>mfw

>implying that being a social loser to be smart

>mfw nobody fitting your description has made any significant contributions to science

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4y0EUlU-Y

Listen to Feynman

hey /sci/, so I just graduated from university and need something to kill my time. not studying shit makes me antsy as fuck so recommend a physics / engineering topic. being applicable to finding a job is always a plus!

possible choices:
fluid mechanics
optics
brush up on thermodynamics (barely passed that class)
chaos theory

>>3147420
Yes, it is often hard for some to deal with, but it is true. The problem is actually in your phil reasoning and not your scientific reasoning. You made some assumptions you shouldn't have made. Re-evaluate!

Particles "pop" and "disappear" from existence all the time, and vacuum flux is an undisputed fact of nature (we observe that shit all the time as well).

Don't confuse a non-causal system, as that of complete chaos though. We still have physics (probabalistic), mathematical models, symmetries, certain conservations,....etc.

Just because something has no "initial cause", doesn't mean it cannot be studied, catagorized, predicted, and even experimenally verified. Science can still be done!

>>2967212
You decide to take the opinon of a few fringe scientists, with little if no evidence, as someting of importance? Why? What is wrong with you?

Your system of logic and reasoing is very very bad.

There will always be crazies that say crazy shit. Ignore the crazies! The fact is that all the data we have about the universe suggest the big bang, and 13.5Gyrs. Sure, we could be wrong, science changes, and corrects itself. Hence the beauty of science.

You need to evalute your critical thinking skills son.

THE INCONCEIIIIIIIIIIIIIVABLE NATURE... OF NATURE.