/sci/ - Science & Math

ITT: /sci/ humor

>>8024300

>>7937328
/sci/ is pretty hostile so don't be taken aback by posts like the first reply you got. Also, making your question more specialised encourages more knowledgeable posters to answer precisely. Bump a few times if you don't get attention. Be patient. That's the /sci/ starter guide.

How do we know dark matter/energy isn't regular matter/energy that we simply can't detect with current technology?

Pssst, OP.

[math]\limits_{\limits_{you=retard}}[/math]

>>7611430
1) Lower traffic
2) The autists on /sci/ are UNBELIEVABLY hostile to new posters
3) Most of the actual scientists that used to come on /sci/ were driven off for being namefags or for not catering to whatever stupid unwritten rules the autist fags decided to enforce for the week.

All of this results in a board where good discussions are rare, where quality content and discussion contributors are driven away, and where new posters are discouraged from staying... a toxic combination for any board.

>>7582716

>>7566973

No, science proves that music causes destructive inteference with brainwaves.

>>7433913
This has actually bugged me for a while too, surely there's something that makes the response to a polynomial driving force take less guess work to calculate

Nothing will ever beat >psychology >science.


So engineer, scientist and mathematician get a task: calculate the volume of a given red ball.

Scientist remembers basic physics, puts ball in a tank of water, measures the change of the hight of water level and calculates the change of water volume.

Mathematician measures ball's radius and uses triple integral to solve it's volume.

Engineer opens his desk to find the "Spreadsheets of red ball volumes" [>2015] book and a dildo. Immediately he shoves the book up his rectum and searches dildo for a needed value.

>>7101746
Not as good as the original but I don't think anything ever could have been.

For what it is, however, it's pretty damned impressive. The points it tries to get across it does very effectively, the visuals are spectacular, and the score is great.

Also, I have to say if there's one thing I actually like about the new series more than the original it's the greater emphasis on the stories of individual figures in the history of science. Most of the episodes which focus on a single historic figure or the progressive work of several are really fantastic. The episodes on Michael Faraday and CC Paterson especially come to mind but also the episode on the study of light and how over many generations it led to modern astrophysics.

>>7024741

>>6996708
Newer posters - don't be afraid to ask a question you think is silly.
Experienced posters - don't be afraid to answer a question you think is silly.

Some of the best, most productive threads on /sci/ come from people daring to ask a question they think is stupid and people giving good informative responses or entertaining a seemingly ridiculous idea.


Other than that just use common sense, go into every thread with an open mind and a healthy level of skepticism, and ignore the fucking autists who treat /sci/ like some kind of super special secret treehouse club.

>>6948844

>>6911748
There are two kinds of people on /sci/

People who offer blunt, brutally honest, but generally constructive and helpful criticism.

People like >>6911688 who go full asshole.


Unfortunately it's can be very difficult to see the difference and the sperglords are definitely much more vocal than the actually helpful people, so /sci/ is left with an unfortunate reputation.

ITT

What's the shortest proof of the singular value theorem that /sci/ can come up with? I'd rather it didn't use the polar decomposition.

>>6609546
The only thing worse than the idiots are the 'better-thans', the smug assholes who you can tell probably only just finished their first year or two of grad school and act like everyone and everything else on the board that doesn't pertain to their dissertation is beneath them.


/sci/ unlike most boards, has an entire group of assholes on it who make a point of driving away new posters.

>>6579420
A board is only as good as its posters and its content:
If you make interesting threads - more people will come.
If you stop acting like condescending assholes to every non-STEM major who wanders in - more people will come.
If you start cool projects or make cool OC - more people will come.


If posters on /sci/ spent half as much time and effort creating interesting discussions or answering questions from visiting anons or making quality OC as they currently spend sperging out over homework threads and bitching about how much /sci/ sucks

... then /sci/ wouldn't suck