I'd like to discuss the fundamental problem of money with you. As I usually do once a week or so, I'm scrolling through LinkedIn. Tonight I've had a couple of really interesting finds. I've found people who have amazing academic credentials. I'm talking Ivy Leagues and double/triple majoring in stuff like math, physics, computer science.

What do you think those people are doing now? A good guess would be that now they are at NASA working on space travel. Or perhaps they could be in a private company working in renewable energy research like improving nuclear energy, solar energy, etc.

Good guesses. Here is what they are doing:
Senior Data Scientist at PepsiCo. Currently working on a classification engine that looks at tweets and tells you which ones are about food/drinks and which aren't.

So some of the most educated people on this planet are working at fucking Pepsi building algorithms that can look at your tweet and tell them if your tweet was about drinks so that they can target ads at you. Or maybe they can mix that data with geolocation and they can now tell if suddenly in California there are a lot more people than usual tweeting about drinks so they can dispatch a team of researchers to figure out if there is some event in the area they can profit from.

Is this really what we built civilization for? We went from the stone ages to the digital age all so that we could raise humans educated enough that they can write algorithms that scan tweets to see if you'd want a Pepsi?

What is a good engineering school (ECE) that I can get into with a high GRE score but a shit GPA and maybe 1 good project with a few referrals

Wtf Is a "particle"? Just twisted space?

Life uh finds a way

i have the impression 90% of posters here use this board only to trick themselves into believing that they are intelligent and insightful. Yes, especially you, IQ braggers

Coming from a Humanities BA, is it possible to land a data scientist job after a Masters or will I end up as a Data Analyst

If I have a mass attached to a spring vertically (see picture) and the mass is still, why do I get a different result for the elastic costant (k) of the spring if I use conservation of energy (mg*?L = 1/2*k*?L^2, which leads to k = 2mg/?L) and balancing forces (k*?L = mg, => k = mg/?L)? What am I missing?

will this work?

also where do i put the ground wire?
also what does the ground wire actually do?

given x amount of frame/second how to predict the position of appendages in a walk/locomotion gait? especially pelvis/spine the main stuff and how it moves up down and rotate towards the dominant
looking the basic function that defines the exact value of those given arbitrary limb size

ps: i think i read robotics and ik and that is about a single chain kinematics not the whole body i dont know how to make it into a walk or maybe im trying to read backwards to learn bio/skeletal mechanics than robotics

my dumbass need help with forensics work