/sci/ - Science & Math

yes. i think about this all the time. it sucks, but it could be worse.

i don't see how anyone can say that longevity is bad. there's so much shit to do, and find out and experience. 100 years isnt enough. i realy wish i could live forever. it takes like 10 years to get good at anything too. imagine if we had 1000 years to work at something. we'd be able to do anything.

holy shit this is like my dream job. they are only hiring engineering and web development interns. :(((

>>4009170
ive emailed professors from different universities questions and they almost always respond graciously

>>4008382
1 semester of high school probability will not need measure theory

>>4008357
also 10x as interesting

if highschools knew anything about math then they would get replace calc/precal and geometry with basic linear algebra, discrete math and probability. they are easier, more accessible and far more useful for almost everyone

1. Big state school
2. cheap. had friends here
3. math with stats concentration
4. because it's cool
5. i want to work as a programmer on distributed systems / machine learning shit
6. probably not

>>4007927
meant to quote this

>>4007884

http://www.diveintopython3.net/ if you already have done some programming.

mit ocw 6.00 isnt bad if you havent done any, although it goes kind of slow.

the book on the natural language toolkit is really good too.

look into sage for scientific programming as well

project euler is good for practicing algorithms

'code' is probably the best introduction to architecture and how computers really work, but has nothing to do with python.

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>>4007831
most CS programs are vocational garbage filled with object oriented design and other software engineering pseudoscience.

youre better off teaching yourself the cs fundamentals and learning programming on your own while majoring in math, science or engineering.

>>4007491
mostly cleaning, parsing and finding patterns in big data sets that i scrape from the web. then i make pretty graphs with ruby


also my server is written in it

mostly erlang, ruby for small things. clojure if i need java libraries

>>4003877
'require' yourself to do 'optional' stuff. if youre not self motivated you are going to be fucked once you leave school. learn that shit now

>>4003870
youre not going to get into med school with a 3.6 unless you have a perfect mcat or the type of extra curriculars that you cant switch into on a whim

2-3 for math. and 1 out of major.

>>4003824
i told you how to do it you stupid fucking cunt. if you cant find intrinsic motivation you will just get some other fucking forum.

use a calendar as a crutch to develop discipline until you don't need it anymore. progress is addictive

well, you are going to use tons of statistics in research and you need multivariable calc to do stats.

>>4003828
fuck

you only need one pig.

label the buckets from 1 to 999

start timing once he finishes drinking from every bucket at a rate of 33.3 buckets per minute.

as soon as he finishes drinking from the 999th bucket, start a timer that loses an eleventh of a second for every second. stopping the timer upon his death will result in the bucket number.

if he doesnt die, it was the unlabeled bucket

get a calendar. write the shit you want to do for that day and cross off each day once you complete them. once you have a streak going, you won't want to break it. you can only waste time once you've completed each day's work and you can continue a broken streak by making up for lost work.

because we have to spread out into space if we want the prevent extinction of the human race.

this niggar was insane. he spent most his life pursuing alchemy and trying to create the philosopher's stone. he used to stick needles in his eyes and look straight at the sun to see how it feels

he probably achieved more in his life than anyone ever and all of his real work was done before he was 26. shit makes no sense

op trying to make a point about risk aversion

not a science