/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4969159
>>4969159
>you still have to lift
false. i don't have the chart, but people who take steroids and don't lift get bigger and stronger than people who don't take steroids _and_ lift weights.

>>4452280
T and B need to be capitalized since, in this case, they are a proper noun.

>>4430274
the fuck are you talking about? evolution isn't an algorithm.

if you're trying to get at what i think you're trying to get at it is neither.

>>4420316
this. do computer engineering and get into computer architecture. much cooler, much less transistors.

>>4407969
1. try to do computational biology
2. get another degree

option 1 probably needs a masters if you want to do anything fun.

>>4390760
dude. it's in like the first 2 paragraphs on wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_iron

they fucking add carbon to pig iron.

>>4387183
John Bellody, a scientist at the factory, carried out further experiments, curious to find out if the silicon in the brain of the crabs could be connected to a computer chip. He connected what he calls a ‘bio-interface’ into the medula oblongada, the centre of the crab’s brain. It allowed flashes of images to be seen on a screen. Geometric shapes, almost computer read-outs could be discerned.

>>4370451
oops. lmao. well good thing i'm not in charge of important stuff.
and i guess that's just points towards what i had said before.

>>4370438
in that example, because '-' has the same precedence as '-' it doesn't matter what associativity it is.
1-2-3 = (1-2)-3 = 1-(2-3)
1-2*3 = 1-(2*3)
1*2-3 = (1*2)-3
1*2*3 = (1*2)*3 = 1*(2*3)

>>4370420
ok you're going way too deep on this. please don't bring up set theory :|
i only taught myself enough to build an object precedence parser, so i'm sure the way i'm describing it isn't mathematically correct in every sense, but it's practical.

>>4370408
yeah with the 'syntactic sugar' comment i was referring to the calculator example. because afaik it's strictly a programming term and that's my background.
regardless, arithmetic operators have a precedence and an associativity. that's a fact i'm sure you're aware of.

>>4370380
in other words, the interpreter in those calculators are different. and one probably has a bug(?).

if you type that into a smarter math interpreter like python or the bash tool apcalc (and maybe even google?) the answer should be more consistent.

>>4370320
this is misleading. your assumption is that pemdas also tells us the associativity of the operators.

iirc math operators are right associative. OP's example should be solved the first way. in your calculator, the number next to a paren is just syntactic sugar for this: ...2*(... so the 2* would 'bind' to the result of the expression inside the parens.

i'm blonde and i masturbate. feels ok man.
i've fucked a blond and it was ok.

>>4283659
this. join a few clubs. employers don't want automatons. they want people who are smart, but who are also interesting people that they want to spend all day working in close proximity with.

>>4283658
trolling aside, there is a very justifiable reason for computer scientists and computer engineers.

computer scientists push their field forward. some computer engineers do this as well.

they also help other scientists push their fields forward. just like in any other system, specialization and cooperation make things better for everybody.

a simple example: biologists are doing research on molecular dynamics and proteins and that crazy shit. they have simulations to help with their experiments. they give these equations to computer engineers who make the simulations work.

teamwork!

>>4254563
op you could get a grad degree and do cool shit with proteins for drug companies and make millions.

>>4240937
not necessarily true. the federal gov't and most state gov'ts have incentives that offset that long-term payoff. it's such a complicated system of tax write offs and such you really can't say in general.

>>4240884
it's uneconomical in the short term. but all panels have a certain pay off period. after that they just make you money.

what part about "investment" do you not understand?

it'd be like taping a bic so that it's always on and dropping it into snow cone

>>2954919
$10 says your switches are wrong.
it thinks you're trying to edit a directory and that FUCK is a file, not a string.

you're fucking up pretty bad.
RTFM again
$man perl
and
$info perl
doitfaggot

>>2954901
kinda this.
as much as i don't like python i feel like it's a better scripting language to learn if you're set on learning one.

>>2954880
can't help you further cuz i don't know perl.
try /g/
or give more details.
>it gives teh erorz
doesn't fucking help lol