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Why not? Should be good for a laugh.

This is the most noble choice, and the one I hope you choose. By the way, there is a lot of future scope for computer scientists working in medicine. (Note that to me computer scientist =! programmer. A programmer could merely be an IT specialist, whereas a computer scientist has to know a...

Which would you prefer - working in a lab or seeing patients? Getting both is a huge waste of time.

And what about public libraries? :confused:

What is wrong with math? I like math courses as there is less 'stuff' you have to remember for the exam. I'd study the CS minor which has the most math or theoretical stuff and least actual programming. LOL

For what reason are you asking? Choice of major? The field is pretty broad, from Quantum information processing (applied math - developing algorithms for Quantum computing for example), to Physical chemistry. You must have a strong like for physics and calculus - but actually, I thought...

Mozart was pop music at one time. ;)

If you're interested in politics, do you read a bunch of legislation?

Do you know what is really overrated? Pop music in general. A rant about Mozart being overrated is silly.

Ashitaria's "overpopulation" is ill-defined. He seems to think that overpopulation is a state where not everyone can live a materialistic western lifestyle. In that sense we do have overpopulation. The fact is that population is self regulating. If people don't have the essentials for life...

If INTPs made up the majority, then the world's population density would be a lot lower. ;)

How? I don't see how you would deduce anything about quantum mechanics from the principles of ecological systems for example.

You seem to be slightly confused. Not all philosophers necessarily study the historical philosophers. Many concentrate on contemporary problems. The reason why you would study other philosophers is to not only see their approach, but to examine the failings of their approaches. That said, I...

Practise, practise, practise.

Strictly speaking the vertex refers to the crossing point (or collision point). But what you were trying to say was pretty obvious, so I personally didn't notice a problem when I read your example. But surely there is a neat way of explaining the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality in English?

A tree without its root seems somewhat incomplete. Life at the larger scales concerns global ecology. But developmental biology is a great field...

Good point. Maybe I should give up the dualistic language. The "Default style" is the ugly VBulletin default style, which is not the same as "Use forum default" which defaults to "Dark_Castle_Fixed" which happens to also be my favourite style anyway. I don't understand your cynicism. No...

It passes the Google test. Thread FAIL! PS. English doesn't have to make sense.

With these simple algebraic functions, you don't even have to remember formulas. You can often just look at the units, divide or multiply the variables (sometimes including squaring/cubing things like radii) you are given until you get the correct units for the answer. You should always make...

No problem. You have a lifetime left. Just realise that there are no easy answers - you must invest the time if you wish to understand. Well right now it probably doesn't make much sense as you don't yet understand bra-ket notation. :facepalm: As we keep telling you, maybe the failure...

You guys are studying the following sort of stuff yeah? http://ibchem.com/IB/ibsyllabus-2009.htm http://www.revision-notes.co.uk/IB/Chemistry/ Looks straightforward, though I've no doubt forgotten some of it as I''ve reformatted my brain a few times since then.

I assume you mean they compare on a macro level, but not a micro level.. The thing is that for me the mathematics makes it far more easily to communicate than explaining it purely in English. To me it doesn't make much sense to approach Heisenberg's uncertainty theorem until you understand the...

Well for starters the expected value for a given wavefunction is not necessarily at the centre of the thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_value_%28quantum_mechanics%29 see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_amplitude...

What is a kumate?

Well you would be mistaken if you suggest that they believe such a simplistic picture. That comment was not specific to you. But now that you mention it, maybe you would like to share? vash22 - can you provide some scientific (published in peer reviewed journals) re contamination of non...

I heard that the longer you spend at INTPCentral, the less INTP you become.

What do you think engineers actually do? Those are all specific things that are indeed tested by engineers before the result is deemed usable. They also vary on the actual recombinant technology used. More recent technology allows for much more precise control over where the genes are added...

Yes they usually are. Its called selective breeding and it has been done for thousands of years, but more heavily in the last 200. Often specifically for adapting species to new regions. But just being in the presence of human civilisation applies various selective forces on other species. (see...

Or the whole food additive industry in general. Don't we have that already with introduced species? Monoculture is not environmentally friendly. Introducing new plant species has much greater risk with regards to genetic pollution than GM crop vs non GM crop. This is because the magnitude of...

The same applies to all health conditions. It is an appeal to ignorance. They may as well say "I am incapable of understanding how you really feel, so I'm just going to make some bullshit comparisons". On the other hand, YouTube- FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful

Really?

LOL, I don't know of any jobs available. There has been a lot of interest in human retroviruses in the USA of late right? (inc. XMRV, maybe even endogenous) But these would be academic positions, than in private enterprise. The problem is that most non-lab-monkey positions would be post-doc...

I'm trying to minimise brain activity as much as possible. I feel that posting on this forum is the best way to achieve that.

They should change the name of the field from "theoretical physics" to "hypothetical physics".

NIN, Noisia, Primus, Dream Theatre, That Black (actually, this is just one guy). Seinfeld, Futurama, Red Dwarf, Firefly and the cricket. Books, orchestral composers, etc would be harder. It's hard to say. But usually provable hypocrisy. Otherwise if someone says something seriously...

I'm not a fan of this USA-bias.

Sorry to hear about the accident. Well I guess David Bowie and you have something (interesting) in common. Chimeraism/mosaicism would have been cool though. :p Changing batteries would be a bit of a bitch though.

Who gives a shit if she's blonde. I'm more interested in this whole two coloured eye thing. Heterochromia is caused by a variety of interesting diseases.

It's actually that INTPs in general aren't as rare. The females might be 0.5% of the population, but the males are significantly higher than that. But it could be worse - instead of those INTPs, we could have INTJs instead! :phear:

You are still alone. We are a figment of your imagination.

The problem is I've got caught up in that snobby flac/cue/log crowd on what.cd.

I've still got five. :p

PS, for a more authentic feel, configure it to use the classic SC2 music, rather than the shitty 3DO 'remixed' music.

See chirality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_%28chemistry%29#By_configuration:_D-_and_L-

You remind me of someone.

Oh Dear. SC3 was regarded as the runt of the group, since it had different developers and was not in the spirit of SC2. But don't fret, you can rectify this by playing SC2 here: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ Anyway, I will give ME 1 & 2 a go eventually.

Hey dude, what is with your username? Do you have an interest in retroviruses or HBV?

If you want to understand the process of perception, look towards the brain. The circuits involved in vision are actually quite sophisticated. But on a broader level, our perception of colour is due to repeated sensations forming and reinforcing patterns in our brains. What is interesting is...

People seem to only focus on recombination technology, when arguably hybrids are more dangerous as the scale of complexity is of much higher magnitude. Recombinant GM foods are tested to a very high degree compared to the scale of modification. Hybrid seed and traditional selective breeding also...

I washed my iPod shuffle. It worked again after a few days, after I popped it on the charger. The disappointing thing was it busted the wires of my beloved er6i earphones (which I actually picked up for $20 shipped with a busted jack - but it is much harder to repair on the earphone end - it...