/sci/ - Science & Math

I just finished my "Introduction to Probability" course with an A. We covered the basics, convergence of random variables, Markov chains, moment generating functions and the like.

Where do I go from here?

>>8122401
>you can't use your theory to calculate anything
>the result you end up with isn't accurate.
Remember that time I predicted the Nitrogen triple point to be half of it's critical temperature and it was precisely that to two decimal places? Remember all of those tables I posted showing agreement for many substances to within 10 Kelvin? It's like banging my head against a brick wall the amount of data comparisons I've posted yet people are still claiming it doesn't work. The accuracy of the theory is not up for debate all that is open to argument is rigour. I agree it's not rigorous but that is no argument for trashing it.
>your results don't follow from your assumptions!
Remember that time I said halfway through the thread that I'll make another prediction that depopulating the last energy level will solidify the gas? Remember how this turned out to be spot on, doing the maths on that assumption did indeed give the triple point?
>Dirac decided not to do that, and predicted anti-particles
This is not particle physics where anything goes apparently, this is chemistry and a negative triple point is clearly preposterous.

Look I know it's hard for your fragile ego to congratulate another, but I assure you that it's good for you. Bitterness will eat you up. You make valid points that the equation of state made incorect assumptions and the general lack of rigour of my theory which I have taken on board (I ditched the first half of the theory including the equation of state remember) but at the end of the day it is extremely clear that you are plainly refusing to admit that the theory works in the face of all the evidence because you desperately don't want to be shown up by an unemployed dropout. I'm sorry that you feel this way but plugging your ears and screaming "la la la it's bullshit" won't make the accurate predictions go away. A non-insecure person would say "good work but it needs improving" and leave it at that.

>>8116679
i solved it and from looking at the solution im 99% certain im not the first one .

What if we do the double slit experiment but let whether or not we measure the photon or electron depend on an independent random quantum variable like the decay of a nucleus?

Here are my thought on all the STEM careers
>Pure mathematics
LMAO @ anyone who does this to achieve something if you're not Mochizuki or Tao
>Applied mathematics
If you fail to get into a research institute you an always sell out to finance.
>Mechanical engineering
Waste of time-tier. Every possible mechanical gizmo has already been invented and optimized to shit, you are busting your ass in a hard degree just to end up a glorified CAD jockey
>Aerospace engineering
The only mech eng field that's still got some innovation left however extremely small and competitive with only a few key companies doing anything serious. If you're not in murica or maybe Britain what is the point?
>Civil engineering
A good career, lot's going on in the construction industry, new boundaries always being pushed, plenty jobs around
>Medicine
Good money, very noble career however extremely stressful.
>Physics
Mostly dead, all that is left is only for the 180+ IQ geniuses but if you're that you may as well just circlejerk in pure maths because it's the same thing these days just made up bullshit on paper, no more tangible experiments that meant something. If you are not a genius enjoy flipping burgers.
>Chemical engineering
Don't know much about this, I heard it pays well but work locations are shit.
>Chemistry
More to do than in physics but lab work is kind of boring and underpaid.
>Electrical engineering
Good modern degree, can work on new hardware and power systems.
>Computer Science
90% of the shit on this degree you don't need to know. Way out of step with the modern world. Coding should be like reading, taught in schools by 16, you shouldn't need a fucking degree for this.
>Biology
As low paid and niche as the other pure sciences but at least it's easier to make an impact. Less autistic too.

Should /sci/ ban race threads on the grounds that it is better suited to /pol/? There's never much science, just cherrypicked data, personal beliefs and constant accusations of a "cover-up of the truth". it just ends up a circlejerk to bitch about black people. /pol/ already exists for this. I came here to talk about Falcon Heavy not white supremacy.

Even though I quit pure science ages ago and I'm no longer mad because I accept that no-one will ever take an unqualified undergraduate seriously, even many years later just occasionally I keep wondering about that theory I made. It was all pulled out of my ass over one summer, nothing at all to do with the real theory....but it worked and not only that but it was more accurate than the theory they taught us. So I showed it to my professors and they never even replied. Now if they had explained that it was all bullshit and I had just fluked into getting the right answer then I'd have happily accepted it and moved on. But they didn't, just no reply whatsoever. I did submit it for publishing and I finally did get a reply, a rejection saying that it made inaccurate assumptions. Ok but why did it get the right answer? That's all I've ever wanted to know. I accept that it was mostly bullshit but I had to have been on to something to have gotten the correct answers.

I think people didn't get my mindset, I wasn't out to describe how the system worked, for that is already known and I accept that, I was simply out to make an alternate equation even if I had to do it via a bullshit made up model that didn't represent reality.

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I see many /sci/ posters claiming that they've achieved nothing because all research is now in the hands of big corporations and million dollar equipment and that if they were born in Galileo's or Newton's time they would have come up with gravitation and calculus etc all by themselves because it's "basic stuff"

But what makes you so special? Why would you have been able to do what no-one else of Newton's time managed to do? Isn't it just another "Egg of Columbus" scenario where once someone has taught it to you it seems super obvious?

In short handwaving away your own mediocrity by claiming to have been "born in the wrong era" because the reality is just like how you're nothing special at STEM now you would have been just as useless 400 years ago because you have no free-thinking capability whatsoever, you simply good at regurgitating whatever you've been taught.

>>7989368
>But, it's definitely not true that if you do this on every diagonal you'll always end up with something that ends in an infinite string of ones.
So then are the reals only sometimes countable, like quantum mechanics but with infinite sets, and how the cardinality of the set collapses into either a countable or uncountable infinity depending on how you measure it via the ordering?

Is this the life story of every one on /sci/
>Top of class in high school
>Peers, teachers and parents hail you as a genius
>Chose the hardest most advanced STEM course at the best university in the country
>You will be the greatest, the next Feynmann
>This will make up for your poor social skills and virginity
>Once you're there you're #452 in ability
>Classes are dull formalizations of the same old classical mechanics and calculus you did in high school
>You aren't even able to keep up with this
>You are now a virgin AND dumb
>All your childhood ideas for warp drives and space elevators get dismissed as impossible
>Realize you will barely pass your course
>Realize you will likely never contribute anything
>Realize if you did it would be a 0.001% more efficient rocket engine or something equally mundane
>Realize you're now bald, fat, on a low wage with all your dreams crushed.
>An hero

Who invented "science"?

is modern mathematics being taught the wrong way?

Where can I learn about line integrals?