/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15195968

>>15051415

Is it a bad idea to work as a math teacher or software developer for a few years before I go to grad school or will I be fucked when I try to go back to school?

>>12203287
I hate this. Its what all my professors tell me too. The only person I've heard go against the "shut up and calculate" idea is Sean Carroll, and even he seems apprehensive about it. Physics stemmed out of philosophy, and its progressed to the point where it is returning to it. Yes I know the math is correct but i want to know what it means, and why it is correct physically. I want to study the philosophy of quantum mechanics and field theory, but universities only care about cosmology and particle physics. I'm switching to computational neuroscience. Modern day physicists are just the same as codemonkeys but with higher IQ

>>12200322
I got 125 when tested for the 'gifted' programs in middle school, then scored 3 SD above the mean a few years ago. The tests were very different though, the one when I was a kid was mostly visual questions and puzzles with wooden blocks, and the other one was all multiple choice and had more of a verbal component. I think I have fairly strong verbal intelligence, but really excel at visualization and abstraction of ideas, though not amazing at mathematical abstraction.

IMO IQ tests are kinda silly. I haven't researched how the tests are developed, but it seems to me that it tries to test a specific type of intelligence, and I'm not even sure its good at doing that. If I had the choice I would be a 3 SD above the norm for creativity instead of IQ any day. I'm getting two degrees in Neurobiology and Physics this spring, but a significant part of me wants to drop science and spend my life making music in a peaceful house in the country.

But to answer your question OP, Feynman was a true mathematical genius. I know enough physics to realize I would never be able to come close to anything he accomplished in the field. His IQ might have been 125, but that doesn't mean shit. He was a genius.

https://philosopherai.com/
What will you ask it /sci/?

I'm pretty sure it could answer all the pop-sci questions on this board. You can also ask it the same thing twice if you word it slightly different assuming the first answer is not sufficient.

>>11846656
Reminder that if you're not familiar with the major figures of western philosophy, you need to go back to r*ddit.

>>11813384
Is there a bigger indicator of a smoothbrain than disliking philosophy?

You do actively read and study philosophy, right, /mg/?

I'll just leave this here.

>reddit already making excuses

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Has modern physics really decided in favor of Plato as pic related says?

>>11624335
Based Godel, how will Reddit ever recover?

>>11574912
>At the extreme other end, Max Tegmark is an extreme Platonist and he literally believes that reality IS mathematics and "physical things" are just abstraction for what is actually happening which is pure formula and mathematical structures.
Based

Scientism BTFO

>retard made this garbage thread earlier in /lit/
>>>/lit/14882084
>gets called out for being an idiot who doesn't even understand Kant or general relativity
>gets mad his garbage thread and forced dichotomy didn't work
>proceeds to make the same garbage thread on /sci/ to get positive feedback from the pop-sci crowd about his fake conflict

>>11446516
It’s not relevant but it would be nice. I desire some sort of metaphysical closure. All of the bright minds of science felt there was something more to the world and I’m not that smart but I share the same sentiment

The image is a bit confusing the left side is the side I agree with, the right side I disagree with.

>>11404131
>Archimedes' last words were "don't disturb my circles.

Realm of forms confirmed real, how will materialists reductionist redditors ever recover?