This is what all university convocations should look like. Behold, the future of North American society. Are you proud of our institutions, anon?

are these niggas really our cousins?

>Imagine you have a color box and a shape box. You fire a random assortment of red and blue chairs and stools through the color box, red chairs and stools fly out one end, and blue chairs and stools fly out the other. Now you know that each object has a 50% chance of coming out blue or red, and a 50% chance coming out a chair or a stool.

>Now, the red chairs and stools fly into a big pile but the blue chairs and stools fly from there into a shape box, where chairs fly one direction and stools fly another. 50% of them fly in either direction

>Then the blue stools fly into a big pile while the blue chairs continue on into a second color box. 50% of these are chairs, as we've said. From there, you'd expect all the blue chairs to come out the blue aperture in the color box, but this isn't what happens. Instead you find that the blue chairs coming in have a 50% chance of coming out as red chairs or blue chairs, in their respective apertures.

>"What the fuck", you might say, and your shock would be justified. My mind would be blown as well. Where the fuck did the red chairs come from? Who knows, but it breaks out understanding of reality and that's why quantum physics are so important.

This is a rough account of how my uncle described superposition to me at his 60th birthday party a few days ago. Is this accurate?
Any science people please confirm, I intend on using this in the future when I have to explain it to people. I'm only in my first physics class in uni so I don't know enough about it yet to know.

>Scientists at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and EPFL have discovered a highly potent monoclonal antibody that targets the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and is effective at neutralizing all variants of concern identified to date, including the delta variant. Their findings are published in the prestigious journal Cell Reports.
t. https://actu.epfl.ch/news/scientists-discover-a-highly-potent-antibody-again/
Any thoughts on this? Does this mean that anyone who catches the virus could easily be given a monoclonal treatment like is currently free to all citizens of Florida? They'd just need to update the treatment to include this antibody? I have no idea how monoclonal treatments work so sorry if I'm asking the equivalent of why can't we walk to the Moon.

I'm in the final semester of my math major and I'm torn between three classes, they all seem fun as fuck but I can only choose two. My options are a course on group theory, an optimization course, and mathematical cryptography. The optimization course and mathematical cryptography course are both special topics courses, the mathematical cryptography being taught at a nearby university which is ivy league tier, and I've always been super into hacking and cryptography so this is super unique. I also absolutely loved the tiny bit of group theory I've been exposed to (mainly in the context of topology) so this is my only chance at formal education in the area. The optimization course seems like a really comfy course (assignment every 2 weeks) and apparently you get into some machine learning stuff, which is also really cool and feels like it could be the most directly useful to a job in industry out of the three classes. What do you think, what should I take? What would YOU take?

What does it truly take to be an engineer of some sort? At least at entry level? My interest is probably in mechanical or industrial engineering but my current background just seems so far away from what stuff. I am a IT professional right now and my degree is not in engineering. Its in computer science but its only a 4 year degree and not a masters or anything. Would I have to go back to school to be engineer? Are any of the skills I have now transferrable in anyway?

To anyone who is an engineer right now within mechanical or industrial side of things, what is your job like? What do you like or hate about it?

fuck this racist chud and his fascist theories

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What medication will kill all my emotion? I don't care about feeling happy. I'd take being an unfeeling zombie over despair.

Why not just plant more plants to reduce co2? Why not just increase ocean vegetation to reduce global warming? Somebody help me understand plz