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Anonymous Thu 02 Jul 16:54:38 2020 No.11860596 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11860603 >>11860799

I read a comment somewhere that said, "There are no such thing as waves. This is a journalistic invention used to explain the peaks and troughs in graphs to the public". Is this actually the case? Like in the study of public health and viruses, is there no such thing as a "wave"?

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Anonymous Thu 02 Jul 2020 16:56:44 No.11860603 Report

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>>11860596
There are no such thing as waves. This is a journalistic invention used to explain the peaks and troughs in water to the public.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Jul 2020 16:59:41 No.11860607 Report

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>>11860603
Well I haven't been able to find anything that backs up that statement so far... so you're probably right.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Jul 2020 18:18:45 No.11860799 Report

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>>11860596
>is there no such thing as a "wave"?
Saying that there is a wave on a graph is not the same as assigning a cause to the phenomenon; retard.
A lot of time-delayed compartmental PDE models for epidemiology exhibit dampened oscillatory behavior.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Jul 2020 19:08:07 No.11860955 Report

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>>11860799
>make basic model where you get disease disease incubates, spreads to n people, then you're immune
>can't simulate it on our shit 70s minicomputers
>just smooth it to a diffeq, get closed form solution
50 YEARS OF UNTESTED, PUBLISH-OR-PERISH "RESEARCH" LATER
>A lot of time-delayed compartmental PDE models for epidemiology exhibit dampened oscillatory behavior

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Anonymous Thu 02 Jul 2020 19:40:12 No.11861076 Report

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>>11860955
I had a deranged boomer professor for my PDEs course and the numerical part of the course was the most retarded thing ever. He had us calculate stuff by hand on small 3x3 or 4x4 grids.

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