/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9080624
>waste their time trying to argue against religious fanatics who deny every single truth you present them.
But it's too baffling and makes me want to engage because I don't understand their motivation.
They claim to want truth yet dance around emperical truth at every turn while not admitting that their stance boils down to just faith by trying to dress it up in mumbo jumbo.

It's truly facinating.

>>9040538
>studying chess to advance beyond 1350 elo
Unless you're trying to win professional tournaments there's no reason to do this. You should try to be better than perhaps 55% of the population at chess, so that your chance of winning is marginally better than winning a coin toss. Why? For the explicit purpose of winning bets in bars.
And that's why I'm forever 1400

What the hell is meant by stationary in calculus of variations?

"t = integral of dt" is stationary" for example with light traveling through a medium.

I can't seem to wrap my small brain around this.