/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.12264294]

have you ever given a speech at a conference?

[Anonymous No.12264298]

Should’ve gotten a PhD in math like me. Any job I want 300k starting salary.

[Anonymous No.12264314]

>>12264294
yeah, it was an IT-related conference though
it was worth doing for the experience but i probably won't do it again. if it was being paid for by a company it would be different but i'm a freelancer and i was paying my own way. they still expected me to buy a ticket for the conference which apparently is quite common. add in my travel expenses and so on and i had to lay out quite a bit of cash for the privilege of having a few dozen people stare at me for a bit.
i thought it would be a good bit of advertising for myself and my company but nothing really came of it. it does look good on my linkedin profile though.

[Anonymous No.12264405]

>>12264298
Holy based

[Anonymous No.12264414]

>>12264294
This is the fate of everyone who's wishing to get a major in physics, your skills are beyond useless and all you could ever do is teach or be used as lab monkeys by big unis. It's gender studies tier

[Anonymous No.12264460]

I hate capitalism so much bros. I just wish we weren't all slaves doing someone else's work at threat of starvation. Imagine living in a world where we work on our own free will and actually get the profits from that work, instead of someone else getting it. I wish we lived in a world without hierarchy, where no one is above or below another, and no one gets to starve or go homeless if they dont work.

[Anonymous No.12264461]

>>12264298
so you dont work in academia?

[Anonymous No.12264471]

>>12264461
He probably works 16h a day for Wall Street companies that eat his rotting ass alive.

[Anonymous No.12264549]

>>12264460
>we work on our own free will and actually get the profits from that work
Capitalism has its flaws, but I am interested to know how profit can be derived from the vast majority of physics research.

[Anonymous No.12264573]

>>12264471
Better to work 12h a day for 5-10 years than wagecuck for 40 years

[Anonymous No.12264582]

>>12264461
I do work in academia but it just so happens that was the job I wanted

[Anonymous No.12264587]

>>12264573
Why do you think you'll have money saved after these 5-10 years?

[Anonymous No.12264677]

>>12264294
INFORMS and ICCS 2020. Here's my presentation on Ising model and soaps:

lain chan / lambda / res/9558.html#19751

[Anonymous No.12264705]

>>12264294
no I sold out to industry the first chance I got and didn't bother with a PhD

[Anonymous No.12264750]

>>12264573
are you sure?

[Anonymous No.12264757]

>>12264460
It's coming
The consciousness is largely shifted.
The economy is there and there are, what you could call, "benevolent elites" working to figure out a conceptual design going forward.
There's a lot of people so I don't envy them.

But yeah more experimentation and development on the individual and communal level is probably a good idea.
When you make everyone slaves you also kinda put all the responsibility in your own hands to deal with them as opposed to helping them manage themselves.

[Anonymous No.12264768]

>>12264549
Consider that profit=accumulation of fiat. Fiat=labor/skill=human energy.
It's not a real thing, it's illusion.

If you're trying to get into physics for profit, you're trying to get people to direct their energy and resources towards you.
It's not a field for capitalists.

[Anonymous No.12264895]

>>12264294
more than I can fucking count
6th year PhD, graduating soon
I've given a talk at ASCB 3 times now, and I've been an invited speaker to a couple of other university's cell bio retreats/other random conferences I've applied to
After a while its just routine and an annoying time-sink away from work and whatnot. But it's nice to give a good presentation

[Anonymous No.12264935]

>>12264768
everyone is a capitalist, mate

[Anonymous No.12265129]

>>12264935
not that dude, but while pseudo-capitalistic tendencies can be found/exist in nature, capitalism itself wasn't formalized as a system until the 16th/17th century. Saying "everyone is a capitalist" is as flawed as saying "everyone is a socialist" or "everyone is a national socialist", because in a similar vein, the proto-socialist and proto-national socialist ideals can be found as part of nature, but I wouldn't call them a political/economic system.

[Anonymous No.12265136]

>>12264294
>releasing the full name, face and story of a suicide victim
Why?

[Anonymous No.12265343]

>>12265136
why not?

[Anonymous No.12265446]

>>12264294
5 so far. Why?

[Anonymous No.12265591]

>>12265446
how was it? do you have any protips for me? i will soon give my 1st presentation at a conference, it will be a tele-conference though

[Anonymous No.12266784]

>>12264294
No but I gave a speech in front of 250 people during my military service

[Anonymous No.12266797]

Gave a speech about my undergrad research project because my professor told me it would look good on my CV. I fucking hate giving speeches and I fucking hate CV bloat.

[Anonymous No.12266846]

>>12264460
I hate liberal socialism so much bros.
I just wish we weren't all slaves doing work to keep NEETS and other career welfare leeches alive.
Imagine living in a world where we work on our own free will and actually get the profits from that work, instead of someone else getting it. I wish we lived in a world with proper hierarchy, where one is above or below another, and one gets to starve or go homeless if they dont work.

[Anonymous No.12266862]

>>12265591
First two times were shit, I'll be honest about that. I'm sure what works for me might not work for you. I do the following:
>prepare the slides and make them look clean and simple
>only high quality images, make sure every graph is perfect and big enough for everyone to read
>think about the slides from an abstract perspective, what is the narrative, is there a direction clearly visible?
>fuck outlines, they're useless and everybody hates them
>go drink with colleagues the night before and have loads of fun
>do a little sports before the talk (some say yoga works best, I do push-ups and squats, pull-ups as well if available)

A cool trick I learned from a public speaking expert is to breathe like you have a hot soup on front of you that you're trying to cool down. Slowly and carefully. When you're panicking, your lung fills with air that won't leave by normal breathing (panic breath is flat) and that will influence your voice and make you unconfident. If you push it out heavily, your body will react with more panic and demand more air.
By breathing slowly like on a hot coffee, the air leaves and your voice will have more volume. After two minutes or so you'll be in your topic and everything will flow.

Try to give as many presentations as you can and watch even more. See how people react when they're asked something. If you get a question you cannot answer directly say something like "I'll have to think about that, maybe we can discuss this after the presentation". Usually, people understand the situation you're in and if they're genuinely interested will come back to you in a more relaxed situation.

The number one trick that helped me cope with presentation was to give lectures. Especially first year students are mean as fuck if you're not a professor and ask stupid shit and judge you for it. Learning to cope with this will make you immune to judgment.

[Anonymous No.12266881]

>>12264935
>>12265129
A capitalist is a person that doesn't have to perform labor, but makes money using capital.
For example investors, landlords, enterpreneurs.

[Anonymous No.12266882]

>>12264294
science conferences are awful, do researchers actually enjoy that shit?
Just publish papers and answer emails ffs, spare me the (((architecture))) and free donuts desu

[Anonymous No.12266918]

>>12264298
>phD in math
Top zozzle

[Anonymous No.12266919]

>>12264461
it's a meme

[Anonymous No.12266952]

i've given an uncountable number of them.

>>12266882
conferences are awesome. you get to travel to somewhere for free and talk to people about cool subjects

[Anonymous No.12266989]

>>12266846
What work?
Sitting in an office, filling out papers and making reports nobody reads that get binned almost immediately or grinding for hours in some fast food place to make world even fatter than it already is?

[Anonymous No.12267004]

>>12265136
More like a suicide perpetrator.

[Anonymous No.12267104]

>>12264460
what a flawed view
The dichotomy Libertarianism-liberalism is inherently atheist, humanistic, since it is what the judeo crhistian bourgeois created in the Parliament of their republics. They put the monarchists on the right and the secular humanists on the left

you see thus that being right wing in a the republic just means monarchist, but now that the humanists killed any political power of the theists, the right is still socialist but dubbed ''right'' and the left is still socialism but dubbed ''left''

There is no difference between left and right in a humanistic republic.The only which changes is the symbols tied to each group.
The underlying basis does not change.
The underlying basis of the republic is the constitution about the Human rights. These rights are the jewel of the judeo chrisitans.

Now the subtle point is that leftists and rightists are okay with that. All what matters for the judeo christian bourgeois is that theists do not take power again. And this happens exactly by giving the illusion to the midwits like you that left and right are separate doctrinally.
So the plebs can vote one time for the left, then they see that the bourgeois ruling class does XYZ, then the plebs whine that the ruling class is not doing what they promised during the campaign, then the next election the plebs swing to the rightists, which is exactly the same people.

Thus there is no ''capitalism'' or anticapitalism.
What there is the Humanist Republic, the dogma of their Human Rights .
This is what capitalism is in its entirety.

Second capitalism cannot be destroyed without destroying the republic and its dogmas. This is what liberals hate to hear.

Third capitalism cannot be destroyed because by the dogma of the Human Rights, any doctrine is turned into a bulk of opinions, which are always shat on if the humanists see it as anti Human rights.
The doctrines which are the most appealing to those people are commodified and capitalism remains unaltered.

[Anonymous No.12267106]

>>12267104

This is why btw all the motto and slogans in the humanist elections are always about ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''change'''''''''''''''''''''''''''
the only thing that does not change is exactly the fake symbols made up by the bourgeois about their political dichotomy.

The most important thing for the bourgeois is that the plebs really believe that the rulling class will stop the bourgeoisie after any election.


This is part of the fantasy of the humanist of the '''''''''''''''''perpetual revolution''''''''''''. T'hose people live on their laurels of doing revolution over and over, fighting the cops int he streets as part of the humanistic ritualistic baptism, because killing theist Christians is the only thing they did in their entire history and they only live for this.
but now that theists are destroyed, they have nothing left to do and get bored, so they try to find new topics to ''''''''''''revolutionize'''''''''''''' and just say cops are evil.

[Anonymous No.12268804]

>>12267104
>>12267106
Keep this nonsensical rambling out of /sci/ you spastic

[Anonymous No.12268867]

I presented a paper I wrote at a conference, if that counts. It was an embarrassingly bad paper in philosophy of the cognition of space and time. And the way I presented it makes me want to kill myself. God I was so anxious. Stuck in a vice grip of terror and panic. Still get a wave of anxiety just remembering it.

[Anonymous No.12269613]

>>12268867
>embarrassingly bad paper
>philosophy of the cognition of space and time
of course it was

[Anonymous No.12269621]

>thread about presenting at a conference
>turns into pseudo-intellectual debate about politics and philosophy
why am i not surprised

[Anonymous No.12269664]

>>12264294
Shit tons fren, before I bowed out of the academic life but neglected to jump off a block of flats while I did it.

[Anonymous No.12269676]

One fun side effect from that experience is getting very relaxed at public speaking. When I had to say a few words at a funeral my cousins I never see were all looking confounded at why I was smooth and confident. Bitches, thirty old ladies ain't nothing- try staring into the blank faces of seven hundred autists waiting for you to make an error.

[Anonymous No.12269694]

>>12269676
lol true. i'm a fucking boss at public speaking now.

[Anonymous No.12269750]

>>12267104
>>12267106
keep this redpilled rambling in /sci/ you sexy fuck. This rant is mostly accurate and Nietzsche pilled.

[Anonymous No.12269782]

>>12264757
>The economy is there and there are, what you could call, "benevolent elites" working to figure out a conceptual design going forward.
Q tier nonsense.
>7 gajillion sealed indictments

[Anonymous No.12271005]

>>12264298
That figure is from 2011. Updated for inflation it's 347k.

[Anonymous No.12271721]

Did my first talk last year for a regional undergrad math conference. You get to meet a lot of smart people and have good conversations. Your talk will go by faster than you think it will.

[Anonymous No.12272517]

>>12264460
Capitalism literally allows you to go start your own business. If you think that's too expensive and bothersome, blame your leaders. Starting a business and hiring people used to be simple and cheap, now you have hyper-complicated tax code, legal liabilities when hiring etc. There is no coherent school of thought behind this drift, it only happened because of the expediency of the moment for your leaders.
The evolution of the gig economy is natural given the legal environment all western states have drifted into, as is the rise of well paid consultants. Consultants are paid more because the employer has less responsibilities and liabilities for them.