/sci/ - Science & Math

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>your major/degree
MSc Cognitive Neuroscience

>your expected starting job
Not sure, maybe work in a Neurology department of a hospital.

>your final form job
No idea. Hard to make long term predictions when the economy is going to shit (britfag here).

I dunno what to do with my masters degree. I have no idea how pointless it is. At least when I tell people what I study they say 'wow you must be smart'.

>>4691083
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>>4657384
allright, I get it now thanks a lot

/sci/ gentlemen,

what is a good science related news source on the web? rss is a plus.

kinda tired of the lack of quality of "digg.com: Stories / Science / Popular"

Ok /sci/ would anyone help me with that?
I got to translate this into a plan.

Just a single problem : I don't even know how to read it, let alone translate it.

So here is the formula:
B= [ (x,y) e R² / x² + y² =< 1]

First I want to know how to read that.
Is it correct if I assume it means :

Function B is equal to ( variables x, y ) that are rational numbers ² excluding x² + y ² that can be equal or inferior to 1 ?


then again I got others like this one:
A u B =[ (x,y) e R² / (x,y) e A, v (x,y) e B]

But let's just stay on the first one.
Is it correct? and then how do I draw it on a plan once I have the x and y values?

>>3834571
>Do dividends get taxed? Maybe individuals get a capital gains tax from dividends. But I dont know that the corporation gets taxed for giving a dividend.

All corporate profits are taxed. The corporations can then distribute these profits to individuals in one of two methods: share buybacks or dividends. Both are then taxed at the individual level. Dividend income counts as normal income and is taxed at whatever tax bracket the individual is in. Capital Gains is taxed at a lesser rate.

Either way there is double taxation: once at the corporate and once at the individual level.

>>3789561
I seem to have gotten you caboose clobbered because you've become incoherent.

"debt per GDP per capita" (which you say twice so you seem to be deliberately using it) is not on that list, or any list, because it is meaningless. No organization uses it. Not the UN, IMF, OECD, Eurostat, CIA, nobody.

This is because if the US and Vatican city both have GDP per capita of $40,000 and 40 billion in debt, then they will both have the same debt per gdp per capita. But 40 billion in debt would be nothing for the US but crushing for Vatican city, because of how many fewer people it has.

>>3016099
>Now impose a minimum higher than equilibrium. There will be lower labor demand and higher labor supply (more people wanna work, less people wanna pay)

I asked you for a situation where a minimum wage DOESN'T create unemployment. This is a situation where it does. Which I thought you didn't believe! You have never mentioned any model where unemployment doesn't result from a minimum wage. Hell, *I'm* the one bringing up (and disproving) monopsony.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills from arguing with you.

>>2926660
Getting a 4 year degree requires time, money, and intelligence, in varying amounts. But in any case, all I implied is that republicans are more educated than democrats. Which they are.

http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=539

You can even look at graduate level degrees or the number of people who dropped out before graduating high school. A higher percentage of republicans (7.2%) have graduate degrees than democrats (5.5%). Democrats also have a higher percentage of high school drop outs.

No matter how you slice it, democrats are less educated.

Of course, this doesn't mean republican policies are correct (which is why we care about all this dick waving). But I get annoyed when democrats claim things about republicans which are factually false, so I wanted to point out your error.

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>>2711951

>CNN if you are interested in non scientific but yet balanced coverage.

>CNN
>balanced

>>2627439
I never claimed they were the same. But an anon claimed that social democracies preform better than the US on a variety of measures, when plenty of comparable advanced European countries with social democracies (France, Germany, Italy) do worse.

If your claim is instead that most types of social democracy are worse than captialism but Nordic is better, say that instead.

Welcome to /sci/.

As you may have noticed /sci/ducks rigorously defend NASA with no regard to it's actual direction which results in getting nothing of value done.

Case in point: Let's go to Mars even though we haven't significantly improved our space vehicle technology in 40 years, haven't managed a fully self-sustaining space station and still don't have a even so much as an unmanned moon-base.

why don't copper wire or pennies decay away in a few weeks?

>>2082301
>No explanation given.
I guess I win the debate then.

hey,
"if a number is positive, then its square is positive"

how would you express the converse, inverse and contrapositive of that statement?

my instant thought (for contrapositive) was if a number is negative its square root is also negative (which is obviously wrong).

my logic is flawed but i dont know how.

any ideas?

Anybody familiar with the Airy Stress Function?? Got a 6th order function with 25 constants. Also got a linearly loaded cantilever beam with the load at zero and increasing towards the fixed end. Any pointers?

>>1799723
#1
Second underscore is orange dot.
First underscore is whatever you want it to be, but it HAS to match with the third underscore.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2836%29^%281%2F2%29%3D-6

how the fuck is it false? (-6)*(-6)=36

>>Carl Sagan and Iosif Shklovsky[72] argued for serious consideration of "paleocontact" with extraterrestrials in the early historical era, and for examination of myths and religious lore for evidence of such contact. Many religions, of course, cite "deities" from the heavens with great powers unknown to man. Old Testament stories of Gabriel's trumpet, and the giving of laws to Moses, might theoretically reflect alien efforts to guide or assist primitive man. In this view, there is in fact ample evidence of alien visitation. It is simply ignored out of habit, or because of the sacred religious traditions that have grown around those incidents.