/sci/ - Science & Math

It's time to be honest and accept the truth. The starship experiment is a failure. All the momentum is dead in the water. A skeleton crew is just picking up the pieces as we speak. Elon has moved on to bigger and "better" things. Would you waste time on twitter politics if your company was building the biggest rocket the world has ever seen? The obvious answer is no. He knows it's over and he has given up.

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>>7052809
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIo-WNkp7xk
Literally hitting a mass you are riding on with a stick, in space, thinking it will generate propulsion.

>>6818011

http://7online.com/health/connecticut-hospital-has-patient-with-ebola-like-symptoms/352911/

I think /sci/'s joking obsession with IQ has ruined me. I wish I had never heard of John von Neumann or Stephen Wolfram. I'm reading an article right now that says that procrastination is down to fear of failure / fear of not being good enough.

OH lawd, this describes me so much. I've procrastinated shitloads over the last year. I read about Wolfram doing a PhD in 1.5 years or Stephen Hawking getting a first in physics while doing 1 hour of work a day. Then I can't bear to find any difficulties with my own work, because I'll feel insanely shit compared to them, so I do no work.

Also I told myself that I was going to take an interest in programming and I'm currently procrastinating doing a coursera course on it.

How the fuck do I get over this shit?

At least I can say that I'm not interested in my uni subject or programming. I can always use that as an excuse, right?

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
-Einstein

This is not a /lit/ vs /sci/ thread as I do STEM but my main hobby is reading novels.

But I feel like the above quote is so true. I fear that I may have made myself dumb because I have no hobbies that require problem solving. I took out Spivak and SICP from the library but I know that I'll get stuck on them probably early on and lose all intellectual confidence in myself.

Are Spivak or SICP worth going through if I never plan on going in to academia and I'm not even a CS or maths major? Will they open my mind or will it be like I'm a majorly dumb dilettante faggot that's only one order of magnitude better than popsci faggots and I haven't really gained much?

Sometimes I feel like I should just abandon any attempt at becoming more "intellectual" and just go learn something practical, like programming.

>>5904849
It's just an elaborate database that can connect some commonly associated words. "Intelligence" not really included, no logical thinking.
Nothing to see here.