/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5500934
>You do not contribute anything of value.

It's so cute, you throwing that word "value" around like you have the first fucking clue what it means. This is after you just blasted someone else for not knowing what they're talking about.

>>5500845
Man, you sure are cunty today. What crawled up your ass, laid eggs, and died?

>>5500786
I actually learned the limit one for it before I learned that one. Weird.

>>5500671
LaTeX is my nigga

>>5500635
>To make new discoveries, inventions and to do cool shit is the way of science. Fuck money.

Things like the moon landing and the Mars rovers had very real benefits to science which justified the costs of sending all of that shit into space. However, when talking about massive capital-intensive ventures like asteroid mining where the "scientific progress surplus" is considerably lower than the former, and you are left with potentially hundreds of billions if not outright trillions in costs to raise capital for, yes, you will need to demonstrate tangible benefit/value in order to attract capital. You can't just *reasonably* say "fuck money."

I tend to agree with the logic that the long-run social benefit to monumental steps in science like the moon landing or putting robots on Mars justifies how much it cost.

However, like I said, we're talking about sending craft to asteroids, not exotic new planets or moons. If there isn't enough benefit to justify investing capital in that venture, over other possible investments on this planet, we're just throwing our money into space.

>>5500557
Meditation affects brainwaves and quantum physics is a thing. The question is, OP, with this evidence, why don't you believe in the power of crystals and angels?!

As a whole, yes. Some very dedicated empiricists and experimentalists who've done well. Taken in parts, well... just Wikipedia Lacan, for instance.

>>5500435
>>5500431

Irate lab monkeys have some rustled jimmies.

It must be the shampoo!

>>5500427
I'm sorry, did I jump to conclusions in your totally inane thread about vinegar-based shampoo substitutes?

>>5500414
Oh, then fire those cannons away, brother. Or, if you want, you could talk to a social worker about the fact that she thinks talking about magic to her Facebook friends will help her sons possible physical abuse.

>>5500171
>Shampoo is bad
>I dodged shady hippie shit

wat

Also
>>5500179
is doin it rite.

>>5500399
You're correct, but your insistence on ignoring their preferred social norms will most certainly give them the impression you have Asperger's Syndrome.

>>5500350
If you need our help to do problem d. you are in serious shit son.

Your addition is cute.

>>5500322
>>5500303
You're both idiots, it's clearly a mobius strip.

>>5500312

>>5499605
If you're genuinely curious to see some of the work they do, hit up faculty pages at George Mason University and Auburn. Between those two institutions, most of >those types

>>5497422
OP, if you really try to learn math, you can.

It might take a while. You will probably have to teach yourself significantly if you missed out in school. You WILL spend hours staring at the screen/book trying to figure out WTF is going on. However if you approach it with genuine curiosity there isn't any of it you can't learn.

Good God I have no idea. But it's almost as terrible as OP pic.

If I taught a class with that software, I would personally check all of the answers to homework and quizzes, because that shit will get very mad at you if you so much as round to an extra decimal.

>>5499578
>>5499592

I read this. The methodology was awful. I talked to one of my friends who knows far more about bioeng. than me, and they said that apparently the feeding of soy in particular, combined with excessive inbreeding, essentially handed them the results they wanted on a silver platter.

Now, if I may chime in to the general discussion with what I know, hybrid seeds have been shown to *significantly* increase the crop yield. I've seen more than one study on this done with Malawian corn farmers.

There are significant gains to be had from "GMOs" but obviously people here get that general idea.

>>5499573
See, by me, theory really ain't so bad-- however I may have a bias, as some of the research I have been enjoying lately is the design of markets and auctions for water concessions/rights for areas that are suffering from a scarcity of it.

It's a niche little area where traditional micro theory does a great job of explaining why that area of policy is such a wretched mess.

>>5499559
Long story short, they have a very old beef with empiricism, and very few of those types of economists will engage in empirical work.

It's interesting because Peter Schiff is an asset manager who buys into that craponomics and *tries* investing. I don't think anyone seriously gives a shit about Euro-Pacific Capital (his group) though.

>>5499516
>I think that guy (>>5499462 ) meant that the people who are more interested in mises are the ones who can't do math.

You're probably right, actually.

Anyway, EconomicLogic actually does some coverage of econophysics if you go to the blog and search for it. I tried posting links but 4chan got mad at me.

>>5499505
>Keynesian jew

That one honestly made me laugh, Anon. It would either be that, or screaming "STATIST SCUM" while frothing at the mouth.

Honestly though, Mises kiddies are like the creepy deformed cyclops-child that economics keeps in its basement. Every few decades something will shake up and they will find a way out. 2008 has been one long, unending headache for shit like that.