/sci/ - Science & Math

Does anyone have a cool source on using quantum algorithms for solving engineering problems?
I don't want to have to read 1000 papers.

They said eye protection, a mask, and gloves would be enough for shopping. But all the other people also wore pants, shoes and shirts. That was embarrassing.

>>11353889
Get your degree, then move away from the collapsing star that is academia as quickly and far as possible.
The influence of the industry (check the backgrounds of your university's leaders), publish or perish and Bologna have made it a hellhole of broken dreams. Reliable scientists come not here.

Or stay, try to make it better, and fail against the horde of the uneducated who think they know better.

>>11317733
>I'm fairly good looking
>Life is literally just peachy for everyone else XDDDD
As someone who has been mostly ostracized from society since college, including grad school all through my PhD, i can tell you first hand you only see and interact with the other well accepted, liked people who did not have the audacity to have been born with less than average looks.

Intelligence doesn't translate to socializing, unless you are specifically socially adept. The rest is literal the random dice roll of background, origin and looks, some of which we get to lose with no aspect of his humanity to redeem us from otherwise.

>>10685282
>>10685302
>orders of magnitude
Well, you'll be glad to know that my firm will be putting roughly 20ppm uranium into your drinking water, about 10000 times your estimate. Still, this within legal limits in your jurisdiction and therefore healthy. Certainly ORDERS of magnitude less than would be caused by a nuclear accident, or even than occurs naturally in uranium-rich aquifers.

>>10587943
This
The energy required for this would offset perpetual motion

How the fuck are /sci/ so triggered over a woman taking credit in an experiment? Are you all from /pol/ or something?

Hey /sci/, it seems politicians and people with opinions seem to keep banging on about how important it is that more americans study STEM subjects, how it's a matter of national importance that america gains competitiveness with China and hurr durr.

But then when we actually look at the prospects for science grads, it's shit.

Prospects for mathematicians: high school teacher, maybe financial engineer if you are from harvard or princeton.
Prospects for physicists: high school teacher
Prospects for chemists: lab technician on minimum wage
Prospects for biologists: flippin burgers

Obvious then you have engineers and computer scientists and they do ok, but even they don't make nearly as much money as management or business students can make with half the intelligence.

Somethings got to give /sci/, what is it?

Shameless self bump

Solve to EXACT VALUE (don't calculate that shit):

#1: [2^(x) - 2^(-x)] / 3 = 4
#2: [2^(x) - 2^(-x)] / 2 = 3
#3: [e^(x) - e^(-x)] / 2 = 4

I couldn't do it. Prove that I'm a retard for personal satisfaction.

>>4467950
observe =/= see

>>4264561

Haven't read the whole thread and I don't really give a shit.

OP,

- I'll pretend you don't do drugs. If you do, give them away and never use again, your cortical functions are important to your purpose.

- "Intelligence" could mean different things in different fields. In psychological terms (they ARE the guys building the standardized IQ tests so I'll stick with them on this one), Crystallized intelligence - the factual knowledge that you earned over time through reading books, memorizing lecture notes etc. - is completely different from Fluid intelligence - the here-and-now ability to focus, locate the problem, put 2 and 2 together and come up with a strategy to resolve it; you could be talking about long-term memory, or maybe working memory; maybe you mean it's hard for you to grasp abstract things like math, or that you have poor verbal skills so building a temporary knowledge structure from written text is difficult. Also, if your verbal skills are good but your math is shit, but you want to be a writer, you're fine. So think hard about what is BASICALLY the problem you want to address, depending on what field you really want to get better at, then you're half way there.

- If you decide you want to try something, like taking a few classes or watching a series of formal lectures online - start small. Try something mentally demanding for two hours straight each day (no, reading funny shit online isn't demanding), and stick with it, and whatever you do don't stop. It's fucking torment, I kid you not. Firing in all directions will get you frustrated, fast, especially if you haven't tried learning anything new in a while.

Good luck you fucking stoner.