/sci/ - Science & Math

>/g/ is filled with uneducated, unintelligent people.

What makes you think /sci/ is any different?

>4chan is filled with uneducated, unintelligent people. They're useless.
fixed.

>>2236628
/g/ is filled with lonely network admins and IT admins. I've been with /sci/ for a while now and I can say with confidence that there is some collective intelligence here.

Bumping with random things.

dunno, but if you upload i'll test it as it seems like a cool idea, what if you also add solar flares and change the sun size/type

>>2236642
Yeah, you would be able to do things like that. It'd be pretty neat, but there is no way it would run on an end-user machine.

The final program will run in my university's super-computing facility (if I decide to go with that particular idea).

>>2236658
damn, i would love to try that.
which uni? because i'm thinking about going to see some myself as i would need one for army officer training.

>>2236668
holy shit, for a moment there, I thought someone had somehow stolen one of my minecraft screenshots

>>2236673
Washington.

>>2236694
about 3000 miles too far away.

>>2236704
Ouch.

So /sci/ doesn't have simulation ideas?

Go to physics department. Talk to cosmologists, ask if they have anything interesting they'd like to see simulated, pick something, do it.
Natural selection seems interesting though.

>>2236765
Not a bad idea.

And yes, the natural selection sim would be really cool to see.

>>2236620
wtf kind of theses topics are these? They are too vague and open ended. Don't you even have an advisor to give you a good problem??

>>2236779
For a master's thesis? No.

I'm almost entirely on my own. Of course they're vague and open-ended, I've only just started to conjure up some ideas.

>>2236774
Assuming you know the theory well enough of course.

>Natural selection simulation

Do this but add parameters to account for mutation, genetic drift, and gene flow.

Make natural selection just selection then account for sexual selection too.

>>2236797
Natural selection isn't a theory.

It _was_ a theory when proposed by Darwin, but today, it has been solidified into a proven empirical fact.

I might go with some sort of evolution simulation. Artificial or natural selection

Gah! Too many ideas in my head!

>>2236801
If I do pursue this, I would be using the Genetic Algorithm; using encoded genotype's as strings of character so that they would be easily mutable.

mfw I forgot /g/ was tech and not gore when reading OP's post

>>2236808
I meant general relativity and cosmology.
also: lolwut

>>2236814
oic

>>2236620
I'm sorry but NONE of those things are acceptable as a CS master's thesis. They belong in Astrology, Astrophysics, and Biology department respectively. Just writing code doesn't count as original research. Implementing existing ideas doesn't count as original research. There are millions of people in India willing to do that for minimal wage.

A CS master's degree require original research that contribute to the field of CS, i.e. designing novel algorithms.

>>2236808
>but today, it has been solidified into a proven empirical fact.
Funny, people said the same thing about the Newtonian laws too.

>>2236850
But the best way to design and showcase novel algorithms is to tackle difficult models or tasks, isn't it?

>>2236866
Sorry, should've been more specific. Novel algorithms in the CS field.

I really don't think a new natural selection simulation algorithm counts, since it belongs in the Biology department. If you like Astrology or Biology why not just take a master's degree in those areas? It's not just the CS guys that get to work with computers. Most research nowadays involve computer simulations, especially physics related ones.

>>2236880
astrology... that best be a typo.

>>2236866
yes but the focus should be on the algorithms and not the application.

>>2236860
>Funny, people said the same thing about the Newtonian laws too.
no they didn't newtons laws are based on looping definitions he was called out the day he published and even he knew the groundwork was false hence why he hesitated to publish

I guess this would need one hell of a big machine to run.

good luck OP

Try to make a program which will search for an encrypted message in human farts. From morse code to frequencies analysis.
Could be some groundbreaking stuff there.

>- Accurate simulation of the solar system. User is given the ability to change parameters (masses, velocities, etc.) and even add or remove celestial bodies to see their effect.

Good luck with that.

>- Dark matter distribution simulations, utilizing smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH)
That's actually not bad at all.

>- Natural selection simulation
The only programming complex enough to do this is DNA. I don't think you'd be able to do it accurately enough to be impressive.

>computer science

SEEMS MORE LIKE A PHYSICS THESIS

WHERE IS MY PROGRAMMING?

Ocean currents for ancient and future Earth continent patterns.

>>2237122
all of these topics have been simulated in much detail before so to make any improvements to simulated data you need more powerful machines and most big simulations are run on huge computing grids so its not really possible for one person