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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 00:21:34 2022 No.14419649 View Reply Original Report

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>want to pause weed use for a month or so to prove to myself I can
>have had no problem stopping it when prevented
>but just can't stop when I have it
>its too fun
>always find a reason why my reasons to pause don't make sense
If my tolerance went up that would be one thing but just day after day I enjoy getting blasted, give me reasons that weed is unhealthy or making me gay or something

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 19:16:25 No.14424907 Report

Quoted By: >>14424935

>>14419649
My friend got so pissy with me when I tried to tell him he was addicted. You guys are retards.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 19:32:52 No.14424935 Report

Quoted By: >>14425004

>>14424907
the thing with weed is if there's no real reason to quit, it's hard to know if it's an addiction. They stop, and they don't get floored by withdrawal. But the issue is it feels good and is somewhat easy to come by, so why stop? Then it starts to look like addiction, and sometimes it does manifest as a psychological addiction. I've got friends who get blasted on the daily but when a drug test is coming up, they stop completely without a problem. But I've seen others who adopt it as a coping mechanism for some psychological issue, and they are often the ones who actually have a problem with stopping.
smoking shit tons of weed is okay as long you're not using it as a crutch. Or you're epileptic.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 19:57:29 No.14425004 Report

Quoted By: >>14425023 >>14425038

>>14424935
>the thing with weed is if there's no real reason to quit
Apart from making the one consuming it a huge piece of molten shit drained out of any kind of ambition?

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 20:04:50 No.14425023 Report

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>>14425004
I've seen that too. It depends on how you use it. Trust me I hate people who use it to escape too. Seems like a massive waste. I've used it plenty in very high doses to treat my paranoia by inducing a much higher state of paranoia and dealing with it, taking what I learned from the high to make normal paranoia feel like nothing. It's pretty useful for cognitive behavioral therapy.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 20:09:59 No.14425038 Report

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>>14425004
it can make someone forego their ambitions in terms of taking the first step, however weed can be really useful in helping someone maintain their habits e.g. doing all the hard work that ambition requires

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 17:38:26 2022 No.14424667 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14424681 >>14424892

besides ramanujan and heaviside has anyone else withou a degree in maths contributed to math/physics?

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/STFG/: STEM to Finance General

Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 13:58:04 2022 No.14424086 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14424477 >>14424909

Welcome to the STEM to Finance General!
This thread exists to discuss finance career from a STEM perspective.
>Discussion of good career paths given your degree.
>Questions regarding how finance works and how to break into finance
>Or anything in relation to finance from a STEM perspective

Resources for basic financial jargon and how finance careers work:
https://www.investopedia.com/
https://mergersandinquisitions.com/
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/

Every single job in pic related either makes over $100,000 straight out of college, or has a path to six figures within your first two years out of college. If this beats your current salary expectations then I suggest you start looking into a finance career.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 16:28:24 No.14424477 Report

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>>14424086
Getting a PhD in biophysics and computational biology. I work with part transitions and material properties. I like math though. I'd there hope for me to do this stuff? I just wanna stay home and analyze data

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:54:06 No.14424850 Report

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>>14424177
You can get into quantitative finance with any degree. The reality is that finance jobs will have certain preference when screening candidates, however you'll find even philosophy majors being quants. Finance is about making money, and making money is about being smart. Your degree is mostly worthless once you finally break in. That said, a data science degree is a good eye opener with HR so expect to get a few calls. However, you better prep yourself properly for those calls. Quant finance is a catch-all term so you should do some research on which kinds of positions you are targetting. A quant that will be sitting in the risk desk of a long-only fund will do a completely different job than a quant in a credit derivatives desk. Prepare yourself accordingly for those interviews.

>>14424477
Read above. It's not about your degree, it is about how smart you are and how capable you are at doing the job. The fun truth about finance is that not even 'finance' degrees teach you what you will actually be doing in a finance job. A perfect example is Investment Banking. Most people study finance to do Investment Banking yet the most common reason Finance people fail to get a job is because they perform badly doing the 'technicals'. 'Technicals' being the technical finance questions asked in an IB interview. Stuff like answering 'If a machine loses $100 in value how does that affect the three financial statements' or performing a DCF in the interview. Stuff that you'd imagine that a finance major would know but actually is barely covered in practice.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 19:18:36 No.14424909 Report

Quoted By: >>14424911

>>14424086
To add a little more the pic in the OP, The CFI actually does a great job of dividing finance careers in the 4 major categories however one must note that it is not an exhaustive list of careers. For example, 'Risk Management' is not explicitly mentioned even though 3/4 of the branches mentioned will have a risk function.

That said, I will add some commentary on what these 4 branches are and where you could fit.

Public Accounting:
Here I'll just say that this is the worst area of finance for someone coming from STEM. Most of this stuff is standard procedure. For example, doing due dilligence for a company is about reading income statements and doing calls. Being smart will help here but you will definitely not do any interesting math. However if you think this could be interesting for you, google 'Big 4 Accounting' and go from there.

>Corporates:
This is the first place you should look at if you will you don't have a love for 'pure' finance. The reason being that 'corporates' mean corporation. For example, love electric vehicles? Well, Tesla has a finance function. Doing Corporate Development at Tesla, for example, would be finding electric battery companies that Tesla may want to acquire, or perhaps doing the work to set up a new factory. So if you love ANY industry, but are a bit negative about how your salary will look in the future being a traditional 'researcher', then look into what the finance jobs look at that company.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 19:19:36 No.14424911 Report

Quoted By: >>14424915

>>14424909
>Institutions:
This should be the second place to look at. This is because these are pure finance companies (their money comes from investing activities) but they will usually have a mandate. For example, you could be a researcher or portfolio manager in a green energy fund. This means that you'd be researching green energy companies and then placing financial positions on them if you figure out that their product has potential. Same with private equity - there are plenty of private equity funds targetting specific industries that you may enjoy. But now you won't be part of the company, you will be part of a bigger company buying out those interesting companies.

>Banks:
And this is the purest of the pure. Banks work only with money. That said, banks can still make discretionary decisions regarding where to target their services however most banks will be interested in capturing everyone regarding of industry. And once transactions are agreed upon, a lot of the time it is the bank that has to go through the dense financial documentation to make it happen. This can be cool, but it will be mostly finance work.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 19:20:44 No.14424915 Report

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>>14424911

Now I'll give you an example of how all these areas may intertwine:

Imagine you are a recently graduated Chemical Engineer. You just got hired for a massive Chemical products company to do Corporate Development. It is now your job to find deals to make your company grow. You talked with your boss today and he told you that he really wants to expand into a new business line involving chemicals the company has never worked for. You start calling up your bank to see what their bankers have in stock.

One Investment Banker returns your call saying that they know about a privately owned company that specializes in handling those types of chemicals and that the private equity fund that owns it is just looking to close that fund so that they can return money to their investors before they open up their next fund. Therefore they would be willing to sell. They hook you up and you have a meeting with the Private Equity fund to confirm if they are open to selling their company to you. The Investment Banker was right: they are looking to sell. And you are interested.

Given that you are looking to acquire a privately own company you know that there is very little public data out there. You want to make sure that you pay a fair price and are not scammed by this PE fund looking to exit. Therefore you call up your public accounting friend to perform due dilligence on this private company and also give you a valuation (how much you should pay for it).

It turns out the company looks good intervally and the PE fund is willing to sell for a fair price. You now bring the deal to the CEO and he backs you. Now, depending on how much cash your company has, you may buy it entirely out of pocket or maybe you will call up your bank again to give you a loan to buy the company.

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Science & Math Pet Peeves

Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 10:22:30 2022 No.14423721 View Reply Original Report

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I'll start. I hate when people use percentages instead of fractions, especially "33%" instead of "1/3"

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 15:41:32 No.14424380 Report

Quoted By: >>14424386

>>14424366
Source?

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 15:43:01 No.14424386 Report

Quoted By: >>14424391

>>14424380
33% x 3 = 99%
1/3 x 3 = 3/3 = 100%
Anon...

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 15:44:34 No.14424391 Report

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>>14424386
That seems like an assertion, not a proof. Show me the lemma!

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 15:55:20 No.14424414 Report

Quoted By: >>14424906

>>14424366
Even more reason why they should say 1/3 instead of turning it into a percent and then rounding down.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 19:16:01 No.14424906 Report

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>>14424414
bump

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haplogroups arent real

Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 08:53:50 2022 No.14423635 View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 16:56:49 No.14424560 Report

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>>14424325
point to a gene
protip: you cant

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:02:21 No.14424718 Report

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>>14424505
based seed man

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:12:44 No.14424739 Report

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they are real and have a very specific use and purpose, people saying they mean anything more profound than that are wrong though. but y dna and its historical and genealogical implications are very a useful tool to understand history and test the veracity of genealogies. for example we know that the ancient genealogies purporting common ancestry of the uí fidgente and eoghanacht are accurate due to y dna. we prove that ceallachán caisil was not a true descendent of the eoghanacht due to his descendents having non eoghanacht dna. we also know the connection between the eoghanacht and dal gcais was indeed fabricated. without y dna we would never know these things for certain.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:13:42 No.14424742 Report

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>>14423635
They hated him because he told the truth.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 19:02:00 No.14424878 Report

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>>14424739
im not saying dna doesnt exist, im saying haplogroups dont exist

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Nootropics thread

Anonymous Thu 21 Apr 16:26:24 2022 No.14415847 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14423993 >>14424792

What do you guys recommend? What do you take?

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 13:11:20 No.14423959 Report

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>>14423786
Redpill me on Afobazole. I heard it does nothing.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 13:17:26 No.14423972 Report

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>>14423786
The fuck? Citalopram is for anxiety and shit- I got prescribed that stuff for free and it's definitely not life-changing or stabilizing.
Dunno what info you're reading up on or where you got it but it's just a regular anti-anxiety med.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 13:27:19 No.14423993 Report

Quoted By: >>14424853

>>14415847
>Doing math
I'd like to learn more about this one. Seems like the lowest risk for the highest gain according to the picture.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:37:17 No.14424792 Report

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>>14415847
Are nootropics just placebo? I've been interested in trying them for a while but that thought has always stopped me.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:54:21 No.14424853 Report

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>>14423993
That's what they call a Pascal's wager in finance

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 12:17:59 2022 No.14423872 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14424811 >>14424822 >>14424830

ITT: We discuss psychiatry's dark history.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:42:26 No.14424811 Report

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>>14423872
You mean all of its history?

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:43:46 No.14424812 Report

Quoted By: >>14424821

Pseudoscience is not science

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:46:26 No.14424821 Report

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>>14424812
this also

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:46:39 No.14424822 Report

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>>14423872
>ban 1000s of chemicals
>be surprised when a few of made medical applications

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:48:05 No.14424830 Report

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>>14423872
>Lets electroshock the patient because he might be a psycopath !!!!

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Any sauce on this?

Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 17:43:12 2022 No.14424674 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14424782

I tried looking up Israel Institute of Medical Science and it does not exist.

Reverse image search hints that it is actually a r/nootropics survey, but haven't went down that rabbit hole.

Also corn syrup is listed as a nootropic. Never heard of that before.

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Anonymous Thu 21 Apr 23:51:37 2022 No.14416870 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

Quoted By: >>14424017 >>14424731 >>14424772

Serious question: what would Picrelated look like?

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 13:34:57 No.14424017 Report

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>>14416870
0.99999... = 1

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 13:41:05 No.14424038 Report

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There is natural addition and its antifunction, negation

fplus(x,y)=x+y
fplusneg(x,y)=x-y

Proof
fplus(x,y)=x+y
fplusneg(x+y,y)=x+y-y=x

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 13:45:22 No.14424048 Report

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>>14416873
This.

It's always pseuds and posers the ones who get obsessed with crap like "one theory to unify all physics" or "one theorem to condense all math".

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:07:55 No.14424731 Report

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>>14416870
One dimensional triangle, all other science is lies.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:30:32 No.14424772 Report

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>>14416870
exists non-empty universe

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 15:41:15 2022 No.14421306 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14423976 >>14424767

Thoughts on Griffiths?

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 13:19:18 No.14423974 Report

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>>14423536
I'd call you a troll, but I think you're being serious. Quentin, is that you? Your post is so ridiculously off base, it's not even wrong.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 13:20:18 No.14423976 Report

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>>14421306
haha funny cat

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 14:13:39 No.14424140 Report

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>>14423520
Rubbish - if you want to learn methods of approximating physical systems there are dozens of better texts. You want to learn up methods of statistical approximation? Pick up literally any stat mech book. You want to go into perturbation theory and approximations? Go grab Zettili's QM text. You want to work out optics and waves and shit? Read any plasma text that covers wave derivations and you can learn everything you've ever wanted to know about doing approximations of wave behavior.

Jackson teaches us nothing that we can't learn better from other sources, it's kept around solely as an archaism - your professors teach you Jackson because their professors taught them Jackson and their professors taught them Jackson because *their* professors taught them Jackson, and now the next generation is expected to carry on the legacy. It's the fucking five monkeys experiment of academia. This attitude of constantly doing shit the same way it's been done or putting students through educational hazing because it's seen as some kind of fucking right of passage is exactly why the sciences are now struggling with retention now.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:23:33 No.14424760 Report

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What is the best undergraduate and graduate level quantum mechanics book?

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 18:28:24 No.14424767 Report

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>>14421306
I dont know anything physics but I really like the cover.

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