/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9359816
>applied math
You mean "high school teacher"?

>>8369249
>>8370763
>>8370814
>>8370763
Almost all foods are between 6 and 7.2 unless they are noticeably sour - tomatoes, pickes, fruits, sweet drinks.

Sorry to bother you with petty mudslinging /sci/, but I'm wondering if you can critique something for me.

You see, the trouble started with an argument with some (postmodernist?) academic on /lit/. He took offence to the fact that I wanted to try using concepts from cybernetics in the humanities as a way to make it more rigorous. Quite a drawn out argument, shit-slinging aplenty. Now, the problem is that all this guy has really done is name-post abstract philsophy without out-and-out telling me exactly is wrong with this approach. Consequentially, I have almost no idea what the problem is. You guys seem like the right board to go to for me to get an objective(ish) opinion on this

there's a lot of unnecessary shit-slinging, so I'm just going to link you to the middle of it: >>>/lit/4657268

But really, there's no need to look into that if you don't want to and I'd be happy just to hear any critique of what I was arguing about. Namely: why can't "hard science" be applied to the study of the humanities?

If ∫sin(x) = -cos(x) then is ∫sin(x/π) = -cos(x/π) ?

>>5551330
(by now I would have learned Ancient Greek)
Since by this time simple automobiles would have begun to be mass produced on steam powered assembly lines, I will take the next step to begin globalization. Using a train network stretching across the globe I will begin to create an industrial revolution globally with the advent of new technology, population growth and mechanized farming. Coal from Europe will power the steam engines that drive the trains and pump oil from the vast deposits in the middle east. Iron will be mined on mass and distributed to every corner of the globe to create the new machines of a premature industrial revolution. Wide roads will be paved to every corner of teh globe, allowing commoners to use their new vehicles to travel and trade, the printed word of the empire will be availiable throughout the empire within days.
Thus, I wil,l gather the greatest minds of the time and begin to teach them aerodynamic engineering, fluid dynamics and calculus to the capacity I know, in teh hope that togetehr we can begin to build aircraft powered by the fuel gathered around the empire. In this group of minds, I will start to establish and demonstrate the standard model of physics, opening to them to world of sub-nucleus particles and explain the ''magic'' of my invention, electricity and electromagnetism. Gravity will be explained and I will help (the impressive ancient greek) knowledge of astronomy, explaining and proving how we are a planet in a galaxy in a whole universe.
I will use fossil fuels as a means of catalyzing industrial growth only until the point at which our civilization is able to use much more technological means to generate power, such as solar, nuclear and hydroelectric/geothermal.
By this point I would have educated the world about the importance of health, exercise and diet and established the causes of illness and the importance of good sanitation. I would have invented the toilet and sewage works and management.

I love maths and love chen
I love this thread

How would I read and edit compiled tex files? Like, edit the compiled code and not the code itself.

does LSD aid with inspiration and understanding in any way? I have always heard it's a very cognititve drug

>>4989591

silly goose

take a shot every time he says "Whops"

>>4827167
>You ignored the part where western "science" actively/passively discriminates non-christian rooted ideas.
what? fucking prove it? "science" doesn't ignore anything, it goes where evidence leads. If you assert that there's a conspiracy against certain things, it's up to you to prove it.

>>4827167
>Planes do not fly. You only see planes flying because western "science" tells you it is flying. So if isn't flying then what is it doing? We cannot say with our current understanding of western "science." If I say plane isnt flying but rather moving through atmosphere and allude that flying is merely a western "scientific" word, then it fails because I would be building on another western "scientific" explanation. What is happening in actuality is that there is no plane and there is no flying.
oh, ok, it's a troll, everyone go home.

>>4709757
>doesn't know time slows down in water
>mfw

>>4627085
You kno I'm right.

>>4478721
>russellcrowe

>Is it possible to make yourself into a sociopath?
Only with the help of your good friends on 4chan.

>>4431736
>mad

>>4325296
>dem delusions

>>4320214
>pedantry

>>4248797
In this case, consciousness is a part of nature, like gravity.

We are our consciousness, thus we are Nature itself. We are all part of a greater consciousness, but walled off by our biological bodies.

We are the Universe. It is us.

>>4225579
Whatever, bipolar disorder. I'm in my good mood right now. Have been since I've been taking REAL PILLS.

>21st century
>still talking about religion
>mfw those who talk about religion are either religious or extreme cases of atheist butthurt

>>4101608

incomplete.

More liek dis:

<div class="math">\tan^2(x)=2\tan(x)
\tan^2(x)-2\tan(x)=0
(\tan(x))(\tan(x)-2)=0
\tan(x)=0
AND
\tan(x)-2=0
SO
x=n\pi, n\pi+\tan^{-1}(2)[/eqn</div>

>>3857894
...you (or whoever I was originally replying to) is making a gross generalization and essentially saying "deal with it". Logical fallacy, plain and simple. You can't knowingly employ a logical fallacy and say "deal with it"--that's not how logical debate works...

And yep, as things stand right now, it seems like I'm a lot smarter than you.

>>3810903

>Shitty work ethic through 9th, 10th, and 11th grade
>12th grade decide that I don't like people thinking I am a stupid pants
>Take 3 AP classes score 5's on all of them
>MFW I was polite and helpful to the competitive butthurt can'tcalculus honor students.
>MFW I blew them away on every test
>MFW teacher had to break the curve to pass the rest of the class, putting me over 100%

I miss highschool senior year.