/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9083662
Hardest Undergraduate Course in World is the Harvard Math55.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_55
A 2-semester long course in
Honors Abstract Algebra (Math 55a)
&
Honors Real and Complex Analysis (Math 55b)
>
For the class of 2009 the Prof. Scott Duke Kominers said:
>We had 51 students the 1st day, 31 students the 2nd day, 24 for the next 4 days, 23 for 2 more weeks, and then 21 for the rest of the 1st semester.
>
The Hardest Graduate Course may be either:
(1) Advanced String Theory.
(2) Algebraic Geometry, a portion the math behind String Theory
The Physicist Edward Witten Mastered both String Theory & Algebraic Geometry with His massive brain.

>>9083662
Try to answer the following:
How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

>>9083684
>string theory

More like meme theory, amiright lads?

>>9083695
why would one question whether his eyes are real, and how is that related to mirrors?

Real Analysis

>>9083662
requesting funds

>>9084041
this is the only correct answer

>>9084041
this right here.

>Prepare to Die

the standard model because we have got it wrong so many times

which is basically the whole deal with dark souls, you have to keep trying despite getting raped every time you try

the game mechanics of dark souls arent even complicated, you just have to die till you memorize boss cues and moves, theres nothing else you can do

>>9083684

what makes it hard? only grades are exams ?

only 3 exams and a final?

>>9084071
the subject matter ya dingus

PDEs

>>9083684
I'd argue that MAT 215 with Charles Fefferman at Princeton is at least as hard.

>>9083735
Exactly.

>>9083662
Writing a thesis that contains something original

>>9083684
I'm sorry, but algebraic geometry is orders more difficult than string theory. String theory uses very simple AG.

>>9084125
The material in those courses isn't even that advanced it's just very convoluted textbooks and notes.

>>9083684
>(1) Advanced String Theory.
I didn't know that masturbation was a uni course.

>>9083735
I wouldn't expect you to understand

Any course that focuses on circular motion, because all you do in Dark Souls is ROLL ROLL ROLL

>difficulty is incredibly exaggerated by plebs

Calculus/general ed-level organic chemistry

>>9083684
>Hardest Undergraduate Course in World is the Harvard Math55.
Well memed sir. (You're wrong of course.)

>>9083662
Triple integrals. Casuals think it's the hardest shit ever, true fans of the genre know better

>>9083662

Proving this.png mathematically

>>9086654
Cartwheel master race

What is the Call of Duty of science and math?

>>9083662
This guy

>>9086877
knot theory (no prerequisites)
digraphs (so easy even CS majors understand it)
umbral calculus (it's just linear algebra, that's all)

Solid state physics

Hardest science known to man.

>>9086793
In Harvard if you pass Math55 with a high GPA you are automatically admitted into Harvard Math Grad School.
They can then go straight to Grad School & take Graduate Math Classes. Dispensed to do any other Undergrad Math class. Because Math 55 already cover nearly the entire Undergrad Math Curriculum.

>>9083662
Do you seek the Hardest Class in the World?
Just take a Post Doc Class in
PRINCETON INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES
Taught by this man
EDWARD WITTEN

>>9083662
Artificial Intelligence
It started out amazing but now all the initial creativity is gone and we're just getting more of the same recycled shit every year

>>9083662
In this thread we list things Dark Souls 2 did that were far better than Dark Souls 3. I'll start:

>No bonfire and no death challenge where you can beat the game without resting at a bonfire or dying to gain a reward and bragging rights

>Non-linear first half of the game allows you to rush straight to the areas of the game that contain the items for your build

>Chugging Estus immobilizes you, and the heal isn't instantaneous meaning trying to chug while someone is sticking close to you will result in death

>Stamina regeneration is tied to weight, so a character at 10% burden will recover their bar faster than a character at 70% burden, giving an advantage and a reason to make a low burden character

>Poise exists and armor provides relevant, but not overpowering damage reduction, giving an advantage and a reason to make a high burden character

>Phantoms and Dark Spirits cannot chug estus, spirits can only heal via spell useage which is slow. This makes fighting outnumbered even without mob assistance possible since any damage you do sticks

>Can only perform four rolls before running out of stamina

>Can only perform 5 attacks of a rapier or straight sword before running out of stamina

>Parrying has longer recovery frames and consumes more stamina, making parry fishing riskier and makes parrying require higher skill

>Power stance allowing for unique combinations of dual wielding and unlocking an alternative moveset for weapons

>Being able to use the full moveset of a weapon in your off-hand including running, rolling, backstepping, etc. attacks rather than just being able to do a basic R1 swing and blocking with the weapon as it is in Ds3 (lmao who would ever want to weapon block)

>Bell Tower covenant providing two unique optional areas to PvP for Titanite Chunks, Slabs, and Twinkling, making farming for upgrades fun

>Bonfire ascetics to replay bosses you like and or gain items from NG+ and beyond without grinding through the whole game again

>>9087826
>CoD
>easy
I bet you don't get scorestreaks during a match so often that you cycle them one after another and get 70 kills no deaths.
But seriously, I legit think CoD "can" be harder than Dark Souls, if you can control every spawn and trap the enemy before they get 10 kills match, while spamming 20 scorestreaks in their direction so that they get spawnkilled so often that they uninstall the game and play something easier like Fallout or Halo.
Call of Duty has some strategy but it mostly involves scorestreaks, accuracy, timing, control, reconnaissance, stealth, manipulation, and judgement. I do believe Battlefield is more difficult than CoD in the long end but I mostly play commander to give my team crutches to force them to go on the point. Halo I have to make sure I get the power items and dominate just like DOOM 4. Titanfall is a race to get your titan and hold back the enemy team from getting theirs. If they have their titans, thunderbolt their asses. Either way, you have to go fast, speed is life. Overwatch I just main McCree and headshot people to death and use my ultimate to kill the entire team, rinse and repeat. Counter-strike I can't play because it's shite on console. CoD also has stuff like 'pick 10' where you can choose guns, attachments, perks, ordnance, scorestreaks, and recently specialists/rigs that make you even more OP. Just watch videos of people getting nuclears and shit in modern warfare or black ops. It's more than just knowing how to aim.

>>9088139
You just reminded me of when I used to play cod4 a lot. I knew that game inside out. I knew exactly how to trap the enemy in their spawn and rake up massive killstreaks. I could literally beat a whole team by myself. Team mates would actually end up hurting you because they would push too far into the enemy's spawn point and make the game change where they spawned, so then you had to reposition.

>>9084264


Fukin lol

>>9084840

Who fucking cares about your pretentious philosophy faggotry

What is the runescape (old school of course) of math?
>extremely grindy
>low reward
>lacking content
>making it less grindy makes people mad

>>9084840
...nor would anyone expect you to understand Philosophag, and you do not disappoint.

Not going to college

cosmic censorship

>>9083684
I want to take all of these classes. Am I insane or just an asshole?

>>9088473
Why not both?

>>9088182
Calculus and diff eq, without proof, over 2500 pages of text books, non interesting problems, but thousand boring and repetitive exercise, but brainlet engineer just look this hard math.

>>9088473
You are a fucking normie who wants social gratification for your perceived intelligence. Kill yourself.

>>9088139
Call of Duty is fucking team based multiplayer shooter and Dark Souls is a (mostly) single player action RPG. The skills you need to succeed in each game are incredibly different. It's like comparing math and bodybuilding.

That being said, succeeding in professional cawadoody is 100% harder than any measurable metric of skill in Dark Souls, just due to the much much larger pool of players and amount of money/external resources being thrown at players.

>>9084080
What is it, like Artin and Rudin? It's hard if you've never seen the material before, but not on the grand scale of things. It's probably just taught with bad pedagogy and with no respect for the mathematical maturity of the students.

I'd guess that would be "artificial" difficulty, so yeah, I can see the comparison.

>>9088732
hahAHAH look how good i am I passed math 55
but couldnt you have just studied the topics on your own time in a much better environment for learning?
MUH ACCOLADES MUH ACHIEVES

>>9083662
>>9083684
99+ excitation modes
26 dimensions
10 dimensions after dimensional reduction but don't tell anyone you actually did the compactification, what are you an experimentalist?
D-branes
D-branes
D-branes
Become unstoppable!

What strings yu got bithc?
open strings, closed strings--fermions, bosons, gravitons--everything you could ever want!
-1/12
-1/12
that means renormalization bitches
and don't u forget, M-theory the best fucking theory in the universe

Well what is it, are you tenured yet?
It's time to pwn some fucking brainlets