/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2177651
>http://www4a.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(1/5000)(sum+(k/5000)^2,+k%3D0+to+5000-1)
And that's with n = 5000.

>>2177622
Thanks. So isn't that exactly what the Riemann sum does?

pic related

I've never studied calculus formally, and tried to find a formula to calculate the area under a function.<div class="math">\alpha (f(x), a, b)=\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}\left (\frac{b-a}{n}\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}f\left (a+k\frac{b-a}{n}\right )\right )</div>
Is that correct?

People like OP should be hanged for using JPG.

>>1973516
>Seems rather unlikely.

Please do elaborate.

>final year of high school, philosophy class
>teacher asks if philosophy should be thought in high school
>blonde girl says "philosophy is useful to develop our mind so that we can later in life ask questions about things and so that we learn to know ourselves and actually identify ourselves as one with our whole organic body and the spirit [...]"
>I raise my hand
>"well it's useful to [...], because every big scientist is also a philosopher, as philosophy is one of the fundamental bricks of science. If on the other hand by high school philosophy you mean poetic babbling, especially loved by pseudo-intellectuals (quickly watch the other girl), in that case, it's useless"
fucking alpha

>>1972756
Not going to drink at room temperature, and no place left in the freezer.

A shot of vodka a day, makes you feel okay.

>>1970300
This, I'm not even being pretentious, I'm not even antisocial. Actually I'm frequently invited to parties but politely decline, except when it's about smoking weed at someone's place. And fuck the girls, they're just annoying to be around with.

The bad thing is everyone around me is just being all TONIGHT'S GONNA BE A GOOD NIGHT, TONIGHT'S GONNA BE A GOOD GOOD NIGHT

I hate that sort of party faggotry. I'd much rather smoke weed, play SSB, Ocarina of Time, some old classics, watch science documentaries high and whatnot, in a bro atmosphere.

Because I don't like listening to Black Eyed Peas, drinking beer with underaged twats and pretending I'm having a good time.

I've got IAD (Internet Addiction Disorder). What kind of treatment is there for this disease?

This web page reflects the quality of Linux:
http://stallman.org/

>>1965267
That's a condensed version of my life with Linux from 13 to 18 years of age. At first I was just curious, but of course like everybody knows, Linux is like The Matrix, shit was cash at the time.

>learn about linux
>learn about open source
>search "download linux" on google because linux sounds much cooler and not many people use it, so it must be hardcore
>learn about ubuntu
>install ubuntu
>people on forums say "ubuntu is usually the first linux distribution people tend to use, as it's user-friendly"
>search for "advanced linux" because user-friendly linux is not hardcore
>archlinux
>this is so cool because I have a terminal with text etc etc.
>friends are all "what a hacker"
>be proud, act like if it was normal
>spend days compiling drivers, fucking with the kernel, configuring xorg, etc.
>feel like a boss
>continue like this for a couple of years
>realize archlinux is horrible to use, too much hassle
>switch back to ubuntu
>not so hardcore anymore
>realize open source is full of shit (like if anyone cared about freedoms nobody gives a shit about OMG I CANT SE TEH SOURCE CODE IM NOT FREE WE NEED FREEDOM HERF)
>realize linux is a bloated piece of shit
>realize linux is amateurish
>switch to windows and enjoy the ride with the big boys

Alrighty, switching to Windows as my main OS after 5 years of Linux on all of my machines. Linux has small bugs, annoying imperfections, professional applications don't run and their open source clones are full of shit, open source is shit, shitty hardware compatibility, no one truly takes Linux seriously (I'm talking about the big stuff, the companies that make professional applications), no games except an age-old Klondike, all the scientific applications are on Windows, looks like some OS made by an Indian man, etc.

Linux will stay on my laptop. I can't understand why I got brainwashed by the whole open source bullshit many years ago. Fuck Linux.

>Instead of that, a well structured language like Java enforces clean code and also executes fast.
>Java enforces clean code

>>1964104
>How C++ is like teenage sex:
>It is on everyone's mind all the time.
>Everyone talks about it all the time.
>Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it.
>Almost no one is really doing it.
>The few who are doing it are: A. Doing it poorly. B. Sure it will be better next time. C. Not practising it safely.

>"The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language." — Ron Sercely.

>>1964036
>One cannot into C++ without C
Go back to bed Timmy.

>>1963948
Do you even know the difference between IT and CS? Most people just vomit them around thinking they're interchangeable, but that's first class bullshit.

>>1963920
It's not cool enough for me. Java is shit because people who write Java write shit code, the same goes with C++. Also, there's nothing special with those two languages, they're both just the de facto standard when it comes to industry. But that's just IT, and fuck IT. If you want to join the cool kids on the block, learn Python, Scheme or even some fully functional programming language (and of course C, the razor of programming languages). Frankly, Python is the shit.

>Computer Science
>programming
>job market
>Java
Get your ass back to IT.

/sci/, /int/ and intensive lurking on /adv/

Can't see a pattern.