/sci/ - Science & Math

Only language I ever did anything with was Perl, which I enjoyed a lot.

>had a great scholarship for Math/Physics double major and Astronomy minor
>have have full blown existential crisis halfway through first semester
>finish the semester but drop out
>applied for membership to a commune in Virginia
>get in
>moving there on April 1st
>tfw

"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward." -Mikhail Bakunin

You're asking if a methodology knows the meaning of life? No more than the steps to replacing a car engine know the meaning of ice cream.

>The median annual wage for physicists was $106,370 in May 2010
>20,600 jobs

I'm okay with this.

>>4885523

I can't speak from experience, but I'd think it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Next year I'll be starting a double major in Math and Physics and a minor in Astronomy, and I'm a lazy asshole. If I can do it, you certainly can.

It is a separate consciousness. It will act like you in every way, will respond exactly as you would in any given situation (because it is you), but you will be dead, so none of this will matter.

>>4578204

How ironic. I just accidentally went to /mu/ and they were talking about the Sunshine soundtrack. I was about to look up the trailer.

>>4567468

>However this would mean that to visit any other structure you'd need to drop out of the moon pool and swim to the moon pool of the other habitat.

I love being in the water, so I wouldn't see that as a negative experience, although I have no to tell how old it would get over time.

>Secondly, what economic system best serves such a settlement?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy

>work in a computer lab
>be writing code
>why the fuck isn't this working?
>forgot a quotation mark

mfw it took me 20 minutes to find this shit.

>>4328067

Gotcha. At this point, I'm simply trying to think of an alternate way to present this data.

The molecules in question are water molecules and their trajectories that I wanted to plot are those of their diffusion through crystalline P3HT. The plan was to superimpose a 2D cross section of the P3HT at the back of the 3D graph so it could be easily seen how the water molecules diffused in different areas of the P3HT.

I'm not quite sure where to go from here, though.

>>4328049

Ah, there's the problem. I was able to do the same with Mathematica, but couldn't label the axes.

>>4328031

Do you know if there is a freeware version for Linux?

To clarify : say my points were (x1, y1, z1), (x2, y2, z2), (x3, y3, z3).....

I would need it to plot a point at (x1,y1,z1) then draw a line to (x2, y2, z2), and then another line from there to (x3,y3,z3).

With Mathematica I can plot the points, but without a line connecting them, it just becomes an indecipherable mess (there's about 200 data points for each of the 5 molecules).

Shameful self bump.

Is there any free software I can use to make a 3 dimensional line graph?

I have a whole host of data : x, y, and z co-ordinates of molecules over time, and I need to present them in a clean, easy to understand manner.

I've tried Mathematica, but there doesn't seem to be a way to simply plot a line through a list of points in a box. I can plot the individual points, a plane, or a line with no identifiers or scales on the axes, but those don't help me much.

All help is greatly appreciated.

>>4313311

>LFTRs only require input of uranium or plutonium to kick-start the initial nuclear reaction, and as the fissionable material can come from either spent fuel rods or old nuclear warheads, LFTRs will inevitably be used as janitors to clean up nuclear waste.

> LFTRs are highly fuel efficient and burn up 100% of the thorium fed them. Light water reactors typically burn only about 3% of their loaded fuel, or about .7% of the fundamental raw uranium which must be enriched to become fissionable.

http://thorium.50webs.com/

Ironically, anti-Nuke lobbying is making the world more dangerous. We're now working with dated reactors instead of being able to move on to bigger, better, and safer projects (see LFTRs). If we could actually progress in Nuclear technology, the world would be a safer and better place.

>>4309438

The point being that you're asking the guy whose friend killed himself less than a week ago.

>>4309423

Holy shit. I think that this question is actually the most cold-hearted and emotionless thing I've ever heard...or seen...rather.

I'm probably the happiest person I know. The Universe is too beautiful a place to think of things like suicide.

I think I have to agree with Camus on the subject. Fleeing from the absurdity of reality into illusions, religion, or death is the antithesis of freedom.

Seriously, though. When I ponder the fact that the atoms in my left hand probably came from a different star than the atoms in my right hand, or that the whole Universe is just one jiggling mess of atoms, I can't help but smile. Simply being able to experience reality, whether it be positive or negative at any given time, makes it impossible for me to be sad, let alone suicidal.

Laurence Krauss seems to provide evidence for the Universe being flat, but that is in a short speech, and I haven't necessarily researched any dissenting views yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo

I've found this to be a good one.

>>3681486
I wouldn't think so. By your argument that nothing can be regulated without consent, then a Muslim woman who doesn't want to wear a Burka shouldn't have to, but one who agrees and consents should be able to. The problem with this is that Muslim men would never allow it.

>>3681414
Now that I re-read your post, I do understand that you may have been only commenting on state regulation. If, though, you make the case that states should not be able to regulate clothing without consent, but that the Islamic faith can, that is holding a double standard.

If you are opposed to both the state and religious regulation of this without consent, then I retract my previous statement and stand corrected.