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Need to self study PDEs and stochastic calculus for my thesis (Black-Scholes). Where would be a good place to start?
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>>16870619
Folland for Analysis.
Durrett for Probability.
Le Gall for Stochastic calculus.

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The qaratic was deemed impossible to solve until the 16th century and this jewish galois chud allegedly says this image right here is not possible to solve.
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>>16870379
Jargon is necessary in fields that matter. Mathematicians take it to another level. There was a quarter math magazine published where the cover was written by some well known faggot. A fields medalist who won the fields medal in the same sub discipline the cover writer was in wrote a strongly worded letter to the editor. In that letter he explained he was a fields medalist, an expert in the same topic as the covers author and had no fucking clue what that author was babbling about since it was encoded in idiosyncratic jargon. Mathfags in particular love to encroach their schizophrenia into incomprehensible jargon. Go ahead, I dare you to try defending this story.
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>>16870482
Never heard that story. I'd like to know more
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>>16866871
Quintic is as unsolvable as the quadratic is.
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>>16866871
>Define any n dimension hyperspace
>Let's use a real-i-j space
>Derive the general quintic equation
>Ignore or redefine any pesky axioms
>Rework space to handle contradictions
Math is an idealist field. There is no reason that we can't solve these problems by rationalizing the solution.
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>>16866879
This guy gets it
>>16867231
This guy has no clue what he's talking about
This is a really nice video on the subject:
https://youtu.be/9HIy5dJE-zQ

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The professor explicitly told me that he was passing me out of pity and that I should never in my life dedicate myself to practicing the subject matter of the course.
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>>16870173
Based
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protip to anons from a professor
i would never say this explicitly to the class but if I've gotten to know you in office hours and started to root for you, I will probably give you a pity pass
if I have no idea who you are and you get a shit grade I'll fail you
Interact with your professors anons
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>>16870173
Tell the professor that you were only doing the course out of pity for him so that he'd have some people to teach
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>>16870404
lmao. this.
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3 years later: OP has dedicated his life to practicing the subject matter of the course.

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Why can't we fucking think of anything better?
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>>16859431
The voice in my head says he can do it if he just separates the hot and cold particles
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>>16859425

Because you can have desalinated seawater as a byproduct that helps with water shortages retard.

There is no better way. This is the best and most useful. We don't need another way.
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With DT fusion over 80% of the energy is carried by uncharged neutrons which need to be stopped by radiation shielding... so all that energy pretty much has to end up as heat.

If water feels too low-tek you could use helium or CO2 as a working fluid but power companies don't care how cool the working fluid is.
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>>16870476
It's the same problem with fuel cells, they have fuel cells that can run off of various fossil fuel gasses but boilers and gas turbines are almost as efficient and much cheaper
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>>16866700
because it creates pressure that can be directed to create motion

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Why do humans kiss?
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>>16870521
>cultural phenomena
If you carefully read the thread, you'll notice statements that other mammals also kiss, so your claim is not accepted here
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>>16870521
So are you going to answer the question? Your smoothbrained just-so story doesn't actually answer it in any way.
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>>16867056
Our lips used to be like an extra hand back when we had giant chimp lips.

If you ever watch a chimp try to use tools, he/she will 100% if the time use them to hold and manipulate objects.

So its like a handshake, not sexual (except contextually). In most cultures that have existed, it wasn't explicitly sexual, just a greeting.
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>>16870555
>anon explains why he keeps trying to kiss his male friends on the lips
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>>16867056
You're checking for their health and if they taste good, it's that you want to reproduce with their DNA

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I mean even if you can hold the two ends together, how can you reconnect each fiber properly so you dont end up feeling your thumb like if it was your pinky or shit like that?
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>>16870527
Oh, then see the second half of mh answer
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>>16870522
the body is mindboggling
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>>16870526
how promising is thhis research?
>Here’s the translation of the provided content into English:

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New Research on Nerve Injury Repair Is Here!

Hey everyone, today I want to share a super impressive research finding! Schwann cells play a crucial role in repairing long-gap peripheral nerve injury (PNI)—their migration, proliferation, and secretion behaviors are really important. And bioactive ceramics can release active ions to regulate these "repair" cells.

Researchers Wang Lin and Wang Zheng from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, along with Chang Jiang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered that the bioceramic akermanite (AT) can enhance the proliferation, migration, and secretion of Schwann cells by activating the PI3K/AKT and MAPK/ERK signaling pathways. When combined with silk sericin (SS), the effect is even better—they synergistically enhance the pro-regenerative behavior of Schwann cells and accelerate axon elongation.

The AT-SS composite conduit they developed showed excellent performance in restoring the structure and function of a 13mm transected PNI. Compared with commercially available ePTFE conduits, it promotes axon and myelin regeneration, improves nerve conduction, and alleviates gastrocnemius muscle atrophy. Moreover, its functional recovery effect is comparable to that of autografts!

The related findings were published in the paper titled "Bioactive Silk Sericin/Bioceramic Nerve Guidance Conduit for Effective Repair of Long-Gap Transected Peripheral Nerve Injury through Regulating Schwann Cells," in the journal Advanced Science (Impact Factor: 14.1), with a publication date of July 2025.
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>>16870546
Idk man I'm not a physiatrist or neurosurgeon. Warrants further research, like all new proposed biomedical devices.
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>>16870225
I think you would have to program astrocytes to connect that neurons back and myelinate them... But I've seen some news that now there's stem cell therapy that makes paralyzed with spinal injury walk again.

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Physics = dead science
Chemistry = dead science
Biology = dead science

The world is ruled by people who study psychology.
Do you know anyone with C-PTSD?
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>>16870456
Donald Trump: degree in economics
the Pope: degree in maths
Elon Musk: degrees n physics and economics
Bill Gates: dropped out of degree in maths
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>>16870464
Economics is applied psychology
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>>16870456
I like your pic. It illustrates how psychology is fake. I have every single symptom on the right but no one in their right mind would put my neuroticism stemming from a moderately shitty childhood side by side with people suffering from flashbacks of their buddies getting eviscerated and blown to bits.

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Is there any evidence that male masturbation causes hair loss as opposed to secondary factors such as poor nutrition, connective tissue, poor vitamin levels, mechanical damage such as wind burn or scrubbing and itching, thermal damage such as cold temperature, or chemical damage such as shampoos or a lack of oils? Has any scientific study been made on why there is a perceived uptick in male pattern baldness among youth today?
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>>16869105
Have you paid attention to it though? All the dandruff and molds?
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>>16869366
>There is a link between prolactin and hair loss
Guess what zoomers do weekly since 13 years of age
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>>16870268
What?
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>>16870268
https://en.iz.ru/en/1832992/naina-kurbanova-ekaterina-karaseva/catching-baldness-alopecia-epidemic-has-taken-over-zoomers
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>>16868997
I do feel something in my hair after I coom like my hair loses vitality so it's possible. I'm not a very active person but even I can tell when my body is trying to signal something

>monkey learns how to throw rocks and write things down
>instantly ends 4.5 billion years of evolution
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>>16864754
what if your livestock could fight for their own survival, tend to themselves, work for their keep, police each other, etc. but still remain your livestock?
what is the nature of being niggercattle?
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i think, to continue from your post, humans make the best livestock, which is why they make up that big of a distribution
i just wonder who tends us & reaps the rewards, and how/whether glowies fit into it
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>>16868823
Brainlet ESL nonsense
Evolution is not needed for a species to spread
It's like saying the "goal of evolution" is making the sun rise every day

Also
>go read a textbook
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boring twitter board
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>>16865528
This. Bro literally showed his hand too by calling it an anthropomorphism as if that was supposed to justify it. I would go so far as to say the vast majority of people have little clue have evolution really works and so we have to be careful in our terminology even risking being overly autistic about it. Or we don't have to actually and can just be retarded forever, that honestly works too

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How can one form a positive opinion about existence — and draft other souls into it — when the existence of almost all of humanity is miserable? When the potential for painful experience for any human is inhexautible?
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Read pic related. Suffering is just a chemical reaction in your brain. There's no reason why the mental capacity to suffer couldn't eventually be cured like a disease.

https://www.hedweb.com/
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just have sex

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Check this shit out
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cool beans dude
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You get the same sort of pattern from plotting [math]\sin(x^2 + y^2)[/math], which is sometimes used as a cool demonstration of aliasing.
https://hsvmovies.com/static_subpages/personal_orig/math/aliasing/index.html
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/other/alias/

But OP's version seems a bit easier to analyze. We have triangle(x+a) = triangle(x) + ax + triangle(a), so the pattern close to (a,b) is the ring pattern near (0,0) plus ax+by plus a constant. When a and b are integer multiples of the modulus n, the ax+by part vanishes with the mod n step. When a and b are each close to multiples of [math]\frac{n}{k}[/math] with k some integer greater than 1, the ax+by part doesn't vanish, but it adds multiples of [math]\frac{n}{k}[/math]. And when you average a set of pixels with values [math](0 \frac{n}{k} + c) \bmod n, (1 \frac{n}{k} + c) \bmod n, ..., ((k - 1) \frac{n}{k} + c) \bmod n[/math], you get [math]\frac{n}{2} - \frac{n}{2k} + (c \bmod \frac{n}{k})[/math], so you can still see the ring pattern through it, but more faintly.
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>>16870373
>sin(x2+y2)
you might be an efeminate tranimme n*g*er, but you are a fellow sin graph enjoyer, mah nigga
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>>16869547
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Sheep
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>>16869332
Does it have a name?

That we will never possibly be able to know the truth about the origin of our universe? Just think about it, for any subgroup, you cant possibly use the properties and objects into this subgroup to explain the properties and objects corresponding to the parent group, it is just not possible.
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>>16868654
Godel only showed that, in order to show something is true, in addition to defining the thing itself, you must include some set of instructions for decoding the definition of the thing, which cannot be part of the definition of thing itself. Thus, every systemic model requires some information to exist that is outside of it in order to define itself completely, otherwise, it can only give an incomplete description. This is because, even if a model contains all the information we need it to contain, we won't know how to make heads or tails of any of it if all we have is the model and nothing providing the context we need so we can understand it.

People that think godel showed math is incomplete or some shit are either trolling, retarded, or both.
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>>16870237
>Even when such a limit doesn’t exist in terms of rationals
But every term in the sequence is a rational number. If we have some preconceived notion about what a number ought to be, mathematics is not about that. We had a preconceived notion about what triangles were but then Lobachevski, Riemann, Einstein showed that mathematics or even physics don't abhor formal deviations from that prejudice about triangles, just like Torricelli showed that "nature" doesn't really abhors atmospheric vacuum like some ancient greeks believed. Being uncomfortable about calling some set of entities "numbers" is legitimate, like Descartes being uncomfortable with complex numbers. But the heart of matter is that mathematicians study these entities wether they are really (or should we really call them) numbers or not.
>It’s a circular definition. Limit doesn’t exist? No problem, let the sequence itself fill the gap of a real.
There is not an absolute definition of a what a limit (convergence) should mean either. The limits you are talking about involve the euclidean norm, but there is a notion of limit where every relevant sequence converges (every limit exists in Q), and some other notions like ultrametric and p-adic norms. This plurality shows that we study real numbers as a logical possibility more than as a logical necessity.
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>>16870303
>This plurality shows that we study real numbers as a logical possibility more than as a logical necessity.
History says otherwise. We study real numbers because engineers and physicists, after Fourier shot a bazooka at what was known of the calculus of functions, were able to produce concrete results with Fourier analysis despite objections from every mathematician at the time. We’re really studying real numbers because engineers and physicists left us no choice, otherwise how would we explain the real life results they’re able to make?
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>>16870312
I wouldn't use that line of argument against Wildberger objections. Did he ever disagree with the usefulness of Fourier analysis? And the gist of your post is that mathematicians ended up studying real numbers out of historical and practical, maybe even epistemological necessities. But that doens't mean logical necessity. Similar thing happened historically with first-order logic, but nowadays logicians talk about logical anti-exceptionalism. That's what i mean about logical possibility instead of necessity.
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>>16870237
you are going to have an aneurism with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%E2%80%93%C4%8Cech_compactification

As bad as asbestos, even? Damaging to the DNA level?
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>>16868734
>Are LEDs Bad For You?
Yes
>As bad as asbestos, even?
No, asbestos is worse.
>Damaging to the DNA level?
I doubt it. If you mean damaging in the sense of frying cells like a microwave, I would say no. It may be potentially possible in the realm of influencing gene expression, but I am not an expert on that topic. If there were convincing evidence, I'd peruse it. But I wouldn't panic over it either.

All said, LEDs are unpleasant, poor sources of light that do not reproduce color accurately, and this can affect mood negatively, which can affect other bodily processes in difficult to determine ways, some of which we may not fully understand yet. Stress and mood should never be discounted as major sources of health concerns. They can cause dramatic physiological responses.
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>>16869696
People in the X thread claim than the temperature of you LED doesn't change much. They give no evidence, though. Maybe they are right. What's sure, is that they do a poor job at being convincing.
Light therapy is a real thing, so perhaps there is an antagonist to it too.
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>>16869696
>>16869792
The "temperature" of a light (its overall color tone, e.g. "pure white", "cool blue", "warm orange") is separate from its ability to accurately reproduce the spectrum. It doesn't really matter in the end, what matters is whether the light can accurately reproduce individual colors within the spectrum, and LEDs are inferior (fluorescents are worse, but LEDs are still lacking).

You can have an LED white light and an incandescent white light of the same brightness and shine both at a white wall, and both may look exactly the same. The problem starts with reproducing the colors of all the objects in our environment. The "white" that is sunlight contains the entirety of the visible spectrum (because that's what we evolved to perceive). But artificial light contains fewer wavelengths mixed together. This can still look "white" (or bluish, or orangeish, depending on what "temperature" you buy), but objects will look visibly different under artificial lighting because the correct wavelengths of light for them to appear natural simply aren't being emitted by the source.

You may have seen images like this and thought they were just marketing gobbledygook cooked up to sell products, but it's not. It's a real visible effect. And constantly living under these lights make everything look wrong, dull, and sickly, and it influences mood.
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post the paper
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>>16870381
>simply aren't being emitted by the source
*or are being emitted in incorrect ratios, with some wavelengths overemphasized to compensate for less intense ones, resulting in the visible "wrongness" of object colors.

Incandescent lightbulbs do not reproduce the exact spectrum of sunlight, but they produce a much more linear gradient than LEDs and fluorescents, resulting in a form of light that, while visibly not identical to sunlight, is not as displeasing as artificials.

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I was gonna do stuff with mirrors and light and patent it to make millions but then AI told me all I did was invent a CD-rom and people smarter than me are using nanoglass. Why even try anymore?
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>>16866596
You sound insanely retarded/uneducated. Go and get an engineering degree or something.
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>>16866604
I did this for two AIs. Created accounts for them to use with each other. The sycophants are now married billionaires.
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>>16866596
eventually you'll catch up to modern tech and your ideas will be cutting edge
believe in yourself; I believe in you
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>>16866604
They just figure out they are talking to AI and create their own language to come up with ideas that you won't understand.
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>>16866596
>light
The real money's in muons.

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Why did private space industry fail?
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>>16863310
Sorry but we all know how each of them are this is not the 80s but you are.
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>>16863310
>Why did private space industry fail?
SpaceX launched more rockets than the rest of the world this year. If thats failing, I can't wait to see winning.
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>>16867474
I shit my pants at least ten times a week. if that's failing I can't wait to see winning.

Your mom could get porked by ten negros but if she don't get pregnant than they all failed at fertility. Show me some success and then I'll let you suck the electric jew off, you faggot.
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>>16867668
Bots cannot into facts.
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>>16863318
> penis rocket
Why are normies so keen to associate anything long and slender with penises?
They say skyscrapers are built that way to "compensate" or whatever, even though it's just efficient use land with value outweighing cost of engineering.
Same with rockets despite that just being the optimal shape to punch through a thick atmosphere.
Fucking parrots.


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