/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6169548
the liberal media, "I fucking love science", reddit, youtube comments...

>>6167236
totally false and divorced from reality. you're beyond help.

>>6167259
Intelligence is largely formed after birth in the sense that if you took a baby and locked it in a cupboard for 8 years it's going to be extremely mentally deficient. but if provided with relatively normal upbringing and a decent amount of nutrition then it's mental ability will progress at a certain trajectory that's dependent on genetics and schooling/ envinroment/effort. for a given amount of schooling and academic effort , the student with the better genetics for high IQ will do better, but improving the effort put into schooling/academic work what-have-you can help a person reach their full potential. the potential of someone with good genes will be higher than the potential of someone with less good genes though

>>6167229
if you just want to fit a curve that goes through the points (0,0) ( 90,1) then that's simple interpolation and there are many ways you could go about doing that.

if you want to make a function that has straight lines and sharp corners then you should just add several moduluses together .
it will look a little bit like
y = [x] |x-90| + |x-180| +|x-270|

you can make that function with modulus

>>6167212
oh ok,

you're disagreeing with me so you must think that someone with down's syndrome is capable of graduating in mathematics from Harvard.

Or that a typical highschool student selected at random amongst the nation who has average grades for their school in maths is capable of winning a gold medal at the IMO.

you're an astoundingly ignorant or self deluding little twerp, aren't you?

The OP is basically correct.

Some people just can't deal with reality.

There are people ability to understand concpets and solve problems is as far above a typical person as a typical person is above someone with downs syndrome.

It's just the way of the world.

>>6159782
just like it would be diluting the term to call every single undergraduate student who studies a science subject a "scientist" so would it be silly to call every mathematics undergrad a "mathematician"

acceptable thresholds of when it is ok to call someone a mathematician include
-when a maths paper they've authored or co-authored has been published
-when they're working for a company or organisation attempting to solve problems that day to day require mathematical expertise that a person without a degree in mathematics would not have (equivalent to how a scientist working for a tech company might not publish papers but is still a scientist because his whole job is applying scientific expertise)


you can't call yourself a scientist or a mathematician if you used to study it but now you work as an accountant or some shit.

whether a quant should be considered a mathematician or not is I suppose up for debate

>>6159528
I've already explained why in this thread.

I'm not gonna repeat myself for a tardo.

I know you guys are trolling, but let's be serious here.

if you think that P = NP then you must have brain damage

seriously try walking into a room full of intelligent people and tell them that you think P = NP if you think it's so correct.

You all must know I'm right if your IQ is above 80
you just can't bring yourself to admit it out of butthurt

>>6158949
Gödel already proved that some true statements are impossible to prove.

why would I want to waste time trying to autistically prove something that is obviously true?

You're the kind of autist who thinks that mathematics is about proving stupid shit like Jordan's theorem.

you're just an autistic time waster

>>6158712
so what?

Does following someone for one minute make it not illegal for the person you're following to hide then intentionally jump out and slam your head into concrete repeatedly?

facefacts, you stupid nigger lover, Geroge Z was defending himself.

>>6158718
If you think that it's as easy to solve a problem as it is to verify whether something is a solution to a problem then you're just as stupid as shit. are you sure you don't have an extra pair of chromosomes?

>>6158708
the only low IQ person between you and me is you, sice you seem to think that P= NP

lol jesus Christ what a tard.

sure thing bro let me type out a Bayesian statistics text book for you hold on

Let's settle this once and for all.

If you believe that P=NP then you're nothing but a fucking retard.


the fact that so much time has been WASTED trying to prove something which is so OBVIOUSLY true is just an embarrassment.

It's nothing but a crusade in the name of autism.

I will deeply enjoy when it is proven that P =! NP so I can laugh at all the STUPID FUCKING RETARDED people who ever thought that something so CLEARLY was correct and actually wasted time trying to prove it.

The fact that some Computer scientists actually believe that P could equal NP just goes to show that you don't need to be intelligent to be a computer scientist.

>>6108081
>>6108081
>>6108081
By the way this considers the outcome of boy A sitting in position one to be the same as boy B sitting at position one.

Which would actually lead to the same probability if you asked
"What is the probability that a random arrangement of 4boys and 3 girls on a bench would result in a boy sitting at at least one of the bench tips?"

Honestly if the question wanted me to consider the boys and girls as distinguishable then the question should not have referred to them as just "boys" and "girls" but something like "4 boys Alex, Boris, Chris, Dick and 3 girls Eliza, Felicity, Geraldine"

>>6107869
Set a boy sitting at end 1.

There are 6 C 3 ways of ordering the remaining boys and girls.

Then set a boy sitting at end 2 and a girl sitting at end one.
There are 5C3 ways of ordering the remaining boys and girls.

This leads to no duplicates.
6C3 + 5C2

If I haven't done combinatorics in a while then I can end up spending an inexcusable amount of time getting into a tiswas about whether to consider things distinguishable or indistinguishable.

According to constructivist mathematics, that determinate is infinite, and so can't even exist

>>6097779
>>6097779
yes, you're right.

I lost track. the number "10" comes 7th, so there are 10 numbers left to choose from the remaining 47 numbers which are greater than 10

(9c6 * 10c47) / 57c17

For every one of the 9c6 ways of choosing the first 6 numbers, there are all the different possible ways of choosing the last 7 numbers, where the last 7 numbers must take values between 11 and 57.

So it's
(9C6 * 7C47) / 17C57

>>6096224
I'm saying that my impression of him is that he is not a productive, well-rounded person nor does he seem to possess the personality of someone who will successfully get a career at an IBD in a bulge bracket bank.

Obviously it is not a concrete statement with a confidence interval of zero

>>6096211
It's basses on my experience of going to cambridge and seeing dozens of my classmates try to get into investment banking at GS, jpmorgan, UBS, etc.

The ones who made it would never have engaged in this kind of argument in this thread on the Internet. They would not care, they'd have more important things that they cared about more.

>>6094112
Given your writing style and the fact that you're actually getting worked up over this, I don't think you sound like the kind of person who will ever work at GS.

You sound more like the kind of person who is at a good university, sure, but is not driven or social enough to get any extra-curricular positions of responsibility on his CV. The kind of person who will see his class mates go on to get internships then careers in investment banking and front office finance while he tells himself that he's just as good as they are and he'll get there eventually.

If you were one of the people who was actually going to get an IB career you'd probably not be as hot under the collar as you are, and woukd care little about this thread or 4chan in general because you're too busy and tired from rowing in the university first 8 or being secretary of the finance society or student union.

I'll happily admit I'm wrong if you've already done or been offered an internship though. But you don't strike me as being in that position.

>actually having arguments in the middle of a "class" where one student challenges another student to solve a problem that's not even related to the content of that lesson

Why is this allowed?
It sounds disruptive and pointless.
You're there to learn from the lecturer are you not? Not have disruptive, public dick measuring contests.

>>6090303
This post was made by me, Newt.

>>6079602
this is the right answer

>>6089299
this is a right answer. Why don't you learn some basic fucking maths, kid?

One's intelligence has a very low correlation to whether one has either 'high-brow' or 'low brow' taste.