/sci/ - Science & Math

Got my PhD last year

Wrote mine on Fractal Gauges for Hyperspace, and yes it is as cool as it sounds. :3

The difficulty of writing a dissertation depends entirely on what you're writing it on, and on you.

Just don't make the mistake of trying to make everything perfect. Remember that no one will ever read your thesis, so don't obsess over every little detail.

Just make it good enough, nothing more.

I had to learn this the hard way mind you...

>>2635862
interestedfag here, explication is required

>Remember that no one will ever read your thesis
for instance this...wat?

>>2635874

oops haha I meant to say that it's not like you're publishing a book; it just needs to be good enough to impress the evaluation committee.

I would give you a link to my entire thesis, but it has my name written on it and I don't really want anyone to know I'm a 4chanfag, haha.

I'm too tired to go into an in depth explanation at the moment, but very briefly:

I specialized in fractal geometry, and I've always been really interested in cosmology.

My dissertation concerns the problem of finding the exact fractal gauge function for a hyper-
space (as in the space of nonempty compact
subsets) of a metric space. Nothing too fancy really, my dissertation only examines the situation where the metric space is a sequence with a single limit point. So other words, the most simplistic nontrivial example.

Mediocre effort ftw!

Just remember to get your PhD at a university that matters. A no-name university degree doesn't let you teach at Harvard or Princeton.

>>2635891
>>2635891

http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/Peng%20Na.pdf?osu1278387275

We discuss the problem of nding the exact fractal gauge function for a hyperspace
(the space of nonempty compact subsets) of a metric space. We consider only the
simplest nontrivial example, where the metric space is a sequence with a single limit
point

Na Peng

pengn@math.ohio-state.edu

>>2635915
>>2635915

University of Chicago reporting in :3

>>2635925
>>2635918
Congratulations.

>>2635915
I think it also depends on what you want to do. For example, I have no interest in being a professor, so the school that I choose doesn't matter as much (although it still obviously matters)

>>2635918
>>2635925

To think I almost went to bed before reading this thread that caught my eye...

>>2635925

Lol why would you lie?

>>2635925
>>2635918

>>2635918
>math shit
>asian
BIG SURPRISE THERE

hahaha.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooh wow.
>>2635925
>>2635918

>>2635925

What did you like best about U Chicago Ms. Peng?

There's a powerful lesson to be learned from this thread: If you don't get into a tip-tier PhD program you'll end up regretting it for the rest of your life.

>>2635960
And please explain, why is that?

>>2635960

The person is the most important thing not the program.

>>2635966

Look at Peng and how she tried to pretend she got her PhD from u chicago.

You have to feel highly self-conscious and have much regret in order to lie to people you'll never meet irl about which program you graduated from.

But I was half joking, really.

Wait something's not right here...why would someone lie about where they graduated from haha.

this is too weird

>all of the posts from that dude are now gone
another babby is required

>>2635973

In Peng defence. Ohio is a good uni. Peng might want people not knowing how he is. However, it's a 30second google search to find him.

Particularly since fractal gauges hyperspace are not used that much together.

Physicist here. Median time in grad school for a PhD (nobody bothers getting a masters in Physics) is about 6 years. I will be done in five. Two years of classes, 3.5 of research. (The last semester of classes was light.) Started my dissertation last December. Finished a first draft last week. Was a bit tough, but since I had a lot of notes and all my math already worked out, it wasn't difficult so much as just very, very time consuming.

>>2635978
She was a girl not a dude, but agreed.

www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2232816429
wat

>>2635925
So what was it, guys? Did anyone screencap it?

>>2635978

PrtSc ftw.

Peng if you're reading this please marry me I want to have your peng babbies.

Look into my eyes and try to tell me that I have any contempt for you whatsoever!

>>2635988
tripfag chick claimed to have graduated from university of chicago

i'm guessing we'll never see that trip again

>>2635984

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHA

guys we hit a fucking gold mine tonight.

Please tell me someone took a screenshot of this epicness

> 4chan
> phd
goodluck on that
induring trolls

nevermind:
http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/sci/thread/2635849#p2635925

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2232816429#!/group.php?gid=2232816429&v=photos

>>2635994

r u a .....math wizard? lol

Well at least we know that some females actually step foot on /sci/

>>2636002

hey don't be a dick and ruin this for us okay? haha

OP tell me more about your graph I like it

In Germany she would now have been elected as a minister of defense and than been forced to resign.

>Deleting posts
>Doesn't know about Green-Oval
>Implying we can't see everything posted ITT even if it's deleted

http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/sci/thread/2635849

http://www.math.osu.edu/node/50645

Oh my god she's so cute I want to die.

>>2636005
oh ahahahahahahaha

lolllllllllllllll
ahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa

>>>/b/

>>2636016
I'm going to fap to her every day now :3

THIS IS NOW A PENG THREAD

>>2636019
>>2636002
woah chill out ms. peng we're just having some fun

>>2636021

lol me 2 anon, me 2 :D

>>2636013

sweet!

Well, this thread helped me figure out a lot about life.

I want to get a super cute Asian wife.

>>2636022

I found out where she lives and her phone number.

She dun goofed.

>>2636033
uh oh

this is veering into law-breaking territory

>>2636033

Hmm...if we brought this to /b/'s attention do you think they'll jump on it?

While I hate to employ the likes of those idiotic scoundrels, it could give us some lulz.

But on the other hand, if we keep this matter between us /sci/entists, there will be more peng for us and she'll never be pressured so far as to change her number etc, which means we can have more personal time with her.

Let's take a vote on this shall we?

>>2636033

/b/tard detected...

I can't speak for others, but I have no intention of harming Ms. Peng :3

I think she's super cute, and lying little girls are actually a fetish of mine.

What are you doing, /sci/?
This place for discussion about science and math. Who cares if somebody lied? None of you would like it if the same thing happened to you.

This is just discouraging people from helping and posting in the future.

...and it's /b/ all up ITT

/sci/ slips a bit lower

This thread is fun for me because I recently found out I got accepted to U Chicago (for undergrad, but still).

>>2636044
or, you're a fucking idiot.

Not nearly big enough to generate anything out of sci

>>2636047

1. If you're Ms. Peng then please marry me and I don't think any less of you.

2. You're right, we shouldn't be making people feel bad :)

Maybe if we all be nice Ms. Peng will come back..

>>2636016
:/
You have low standards.

>>2636002
about her alma mater, apparently.

i wonder if she's monitoring this thread to see if you guys will decide to harass her or something

>>2636049

dude you should totally post a thread saying that you go to ohio university so that we can bring balance to the force.

>>2636053

lol I don't think I do, she's fucking cute man.

>>2636056
and please don't harass her. That she lied about her alma mater reflects badly upon her, but it's certainly not egregious.

>>2636060
She's cute, but not that much. 'So cute you want to die' seems to imply you'd have low standards.

if it was a dude i bet nobody would be against harassing

>>2636065
Especially since it's an anonymous board.

>>2636060
I took a look. She honestly looks like an average Asian girl. You have low standards if you say shit like "Oh my god she's so cute I want to die".

>>2636065

yeah guys haha you need to knock off that bullying mentality you got from /b/. It isn't right to do things like that to people; it only spreads misery.

>>2636067

lol you're right I'm just a bit excited I guess (shouldn't have taken a 20 mg IR tablet of aderall 2 hrs ago wooooow)

>>2636071
>lol you're right I'm just a bit excited

What?
Man you fucking creepy

As usual;

>Femanon posts on /sci/
>Femanon lies about alma mater
>/sci/ divides into two camps, SCREEN EVARTHING and MARRY ME PLEASE

Sure, I lol'd, it always funny to see someone fuck up. But now it's just getting pathetic. This guy has better standards than some of you.

>>2636068

Actually, I think I have a greater proclivity to do harm/harass females than I do males.

I'm still against harassing her, but my position would be of an even firmer caliber if it were some nerdy azn guy.

>>2636070

I know you're right..but something about her look makes me really excited. hard to articulate

>Troll posts Peng thesis on /sci/
>Troll soon after deletes posts
>People see Troll delete posts
>People assume Troll is Peng
>People harass Peng for no reason

I don't understand. Why would Peng post on 4chan?

>>2636087
Nice try at diffusing the situation, Peng.

Hey guys what's going on itt?

haha Ms. Peng, I got you: I am now reading your thesis and will pick apart each of your mediocre arguments. I will then publish a rebuttal in a reputable journal as well as send copies to everyone on your thesis committee. Think of the embarrassment! And you thought nobody would read your thesis!

>>2636087

I don't know. Most of sci/ is just people who lie and try to act smarter than 99% of the people on this board.

But, she is really smart and probably going to become a professor in a few years and not ugly. Makes no sense.

>>2636068
I would. Since I don't want you getting your /b/ shit going on here.

Someone lies, you expose them, end of story.

You want to go all personal army, you STAY THE FUCK IN /b/ AND LEAVE RATIONAL DISCUSSION TO OTHERS.

>>2636097

White knights everywhere

>>2636097
>rational discussion
>/sci/

>>2636093
lol'd
I think personal armies, though fun, are /b/'s shit, and have no place in /sci/
but I approve of this! if you really do it, keep /sci/ posted.

>>2636087

I've just been lurking this thread, and I think this anon is actually right (barring she isn't Peng herself).

Has anyone seen her tripcode before?

I don't find it hard to believe that a person like Ms. Peng would be a visitor of 4chan...

But if a troll was involved, he definitely would try to solidify the idea that Ms. Peng was the one posting if he deleted the posts afterwards...

But usually, trolls who do things like this will keep posting in the same thread under the same tripcode in order to stir up shit and cause drama...It's rare to see a troll mature enough to simply watch the shitstorm unfold (and perhaps join in on it).

Am I to believe that we're dealing with a God-tier troll here?

No...god tier trolls have better things to do than to start mini-shit storms on /sci/ after peak hours...

All in all I'd have to say this is legit. But we still shouldn't mess with Peng :)

>>2636079
adderall makes some people excited.

>>2636071
Dude, you should go study while it's in effect.

>>2636093

good idea, instead of harassing her by phoning her or sending her pizza, lets discredit her academically by finding flaws on her research. this is the true /sci/ way of trolling. i'll leave this to the smart people though

>>2636108

lol thanks for looking out bro but my midterms are already over and thanks to scripts I have unlimited adderall (so it's not like I have to buy the shit sparingly from dealers for 8 bucks a pop).

dunno why I took it tho.

>>2636112

To be fair. Her paper is pretty good.

I can' think of a better time to post this video than now:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1050932219/

>>2636107

I don't know, it doesn't fit... unless this troll was SO FUCKING SMART that he realized people would be able to find a link to the paper via a fragment of its abstract. If Peng posted it she probably had no idea somebody would look for it on google.

If we truly have people like Peng browsing /sci/, I'm impressed. Discssions can actually be had on this board.

This thread is....Pengtastic

My god Na, the typesetting on your thesis is hideous! You've got equations dumping off the margins everywhere.

>>2636124

I doubt she coming back here anytime soon.

>>2636124

There's lots of smart people on /sci/ :3

Only problem is that 75% of /sci/ is a bunch of underage arrogant assholes who are dying for a chance to be the one doing the bullying for a change.

>>2636112
no thats just helping. the true way of the troll is to find something in her research that she is insecure about and then pretending we know its wrong even though its probably right then getting her to waste a huge amount of time trying to convince/prove it is right.

snatch this rock from hand, grasshopper.jpg

Hey guys....if Peng went into Chemistry she'd write her dissertation on the effects of Lye

>>2636117
That reminds me, I should try adderall to see if it's actually effective as people claim.

Hahaha. How'd you get away with a thesis only citing 9 references?!

>>2636133

Hey, hey guys...

Ms. Peng's blunder was so embarrassing, you could almost say that it was pengful to watch.

>>2636151
Na, I don't think so

Any medfags in here? Whatcha thinking about PhDing?

I wonder if she's still monitoring this thread, or if she's now na peng attention to it...

>>2636151
I'd Peng her right Na

Hey gize, I have an idea, let's take /sci/ further along toward 404 and act like /b/tards.

Well it is pretty late guys...maybe she's just na-peng

>>2636162

Ooooh! +2 pts for anon!

Finally someone is joining the fun.

>>2636157
is that supposed to be not paying?
if so: that's pretty far fetched man

>>2636176

lol no it's not dude say it out loud, do you know how to pronounce chink names?

>>2636127

nah, i don't think this will prevent her from lurking /sci/.

hey, hey gaise...lol....Na is the atomic symbol for Sodium.

man i wish i was half as smart as her. i graduated in comp sci but i could never get into academia, i'm a lazy dumbass

Peng here, fuck off you entry level faggots

>>2636187

>not as smart
>lazy

pick one man, and don't be so hard on yourself.

Can't believe no-one did this.

>>2636201

haha thanks man. I was gonna eventually, but you know how the pengdulum falls...

Okay, now THAT one was a reach.

1. be attractive as fuck and have awesome sex all the time
2. be smart as fuck and contribute to science and mankind in general

which would you choose, /sci/?

>>2636208

idk, but I hope Peng chooses the former.

meeeeoooww

>>2636208
Both.

>>2636211

you can't choose both if you're not Sagan.

>>2636208
3) not exist in the first place

>>2636208
be an average guy who is smart and normal looking who plays vidya

I'mma go to sleep now.

I truly hope this thread hasn't 404'd by the time I wake up in like 7 hrs.

archive?

>>2636224

lolno

i wonder if she'd ever date a not-smart-enough-to-get-into-academics dude

>>2636233

na hap-peng-ing dude :)

>>2636133
>>2636151
>>2636157
>>2636166
>>2636243

someone's on a roll I see, or should I say...troll :3

>>2636253


lolno

>>2635915

Wait, if you get your shitty PhD once, can you finish uni AGAIN on some respected place ? For example, you finish theoretical physics in Fucknowhere, Nebraska and later in life you have the opportunity to finish the same thing on Harvard. Can you do it ?

>>2636293
If it is possible, it is extremely uncommon.

WHAT IF, she just wanted to keep her anonimity by lying?

>>2636321
That must be it. You made me feel sorry now.

>>2636317
So, because of space-time limitations, you can't get proper education and your life is shit.

Hm.

>>2635849
Math
Not long
Dessert is tasty, shouldn't take too long to finish.

>>2636321

At the very least I think it's funny that her identity got discovered and she made a social faux pas.

OMG THIS THREAD IS STILL ALIVE LOLWAT

I am currently supervising 4 doctoral students (plasma physics), and I expect them to have something finished around the 3 year mark.

It will be okay, I don't let my padawans fail.
Reflects bad on me, hehe.

>>2638139

What do you think of Na Peng?

>>2638160

Looks solid from my (quick) glance, and his work might have some repercussions in (theoretical) physics, so I might read it someday.

Fukken saved.

>>2638177

haha I just saved her picture. I was gonna read her dissertation but the formatting was all screwy, so fuck it.

>>2638193

A supposedly attractive girl with a Ph.D in maths?
Do want.

>na peng (or someone who knows her) posts her thesis
>retarded troll who is not even na peng makes a trip and pretends to be her and says that she went to u of chicago
>the same troll then sits back and gets his dick out because seeing people bashing on the bitch is erotic to him
>deletes his post to prevent anyone from checking if the two posts are the same

>>2636201

>>2638204

yeah lol, except she also lied about which phd program she graduated from.

Most people itt disagreed with me, but I think she's cute in a weird sort of way.

>>2638221

No troll would

1. Bother doing something like this without making the lie more juicy

2. posting Na Peng's fb/personal info (which has yet to be posted and prolly never will)

3. Pretending to be Na Peng pleading with /sci/ to not harass her in order to stir up a shit storm.

>>2638223

Her work looks solid, I don't get why the Ph.D program would matter so badly.

She'll be brutally raped if she engages in a debate with anyone from the Stekhlov institute (Russia) or ENS of Ulm (France), but it doesn't prevent her from contributing to the field.

why hasn't this thread 404d yet lol