>>346 It's possible, but you need to get lucky. I got scouted out on LinkedIn by a recruiter for a medior Linux sysadmin/devops job without a degree or any prior experience, so it's definitely possible. I may have just gotten extremely, extremely lucky.

fuck everyone's lucky! put the comma wherever you wish!!!!!!!!

I'm doing telecomunications, first year >>335 Never got the point of lisp, C and asm are more fun imo

>>281 First year of biology. It's kinda hard and for some reason we have earth science and I hate it. But otherwise it's cool and I love learning about biochemistry and plants

Computer Science, with a Minor in Physics! Let's make cute programs and find out the secrets of the universe! I wanna build a physically accurate nuclear bomb inside the computer with a bespoke engine and also maybe contribute to Ballistica when I can math!

>>343 you will never be romanian

>>353 never claimed to be. i will be reading the Hagakure too even though i'm not nihonjin.

Most recent were Sirens of Titan and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. I am a big fan of his absurdist humor and such well detailed scenes. Absolutely wonderful world building. My mom had may of his books lying around and she would talk about how she used to read them

I recently read Yukio Mishima's Sun and Steel. It's a short but pretty dense read. In some ways I very much agree with the philosophy laid out in it but at the same time I heavily disagree with the conclusions he made. He spends so much time talking about the importance of building up the body and mind and spirit into something greater than the some of its parts, learning through the body what one can't learn with the mind. Thus far I agree and can appreciate his words. But then comes to the conclusion the best way to use it is to piss it away in some vain Icarus-like selfish desire, instead of using his transcendental strengths to affect the world around him or do good work for others. The conclusions he makes almost ventures into Ayn Rand Objectivist territory (I fucking despise Ayn Rand) and overall is just very selfish, immature, and lacks responsibility. It's certainly an interesting read, and there is good wisdom within, but I simply can't agree with his conclusions.

>>357 *sum... whoops

Caracals are cute & pretty interesting While they're wild animals I would love to keep one as a pet They're pretty aggressive, but it makes for good house security The ears kind of remind me of bat ears

>>17 El Floppa

An Axolotl which can regenerate lost limbs like its spinal cord, even parts of its heart of brain

Lyrebirds can mimic a large range of sounds like other living beings, but also make mechanical sounds

Pistol shrimp can shoot water bullets so fast that they heat up to 4500°C (4 times the temperature lava) and create a loud 218dB shockwave Their bullets are so loud that WWII sonars confused them with enemy ships

learning Japanese vocabulary is the worst part of learning any language.

>>301 Specially when the vocabulary has nothing to do with your mother language

>>114 Yes, I know English.

>>325 Do you really?

English is my second language. Learned Japanese last year for 1 month, probably reaching a level slightly under N5 level. Had to stop due to uni entrance exams, now I`m majoring at Philosophy and want to return to nihongo, though I'll probably learn Deutsch語 since it's fits better for my context and seems cooler than Furansu語. >>158 Your writing is comprehensive so you're doing quite well, in my humble opinion. I'm curious though, what are the other languages you know? (Btw, are you still here, hikarin?)

>>173 Depends on what part of US history you're looking to study. Our Nation's Archive: The History of the United States in Documents is a pretty good one if you're looking for something deeper than just a high school textbook. https://www.amazon.com/Our-Nations-Archive-History-Documents/dp/1579120679

>>173 A People's History of the US by Howard Zinn is a good overview. Like all books that give an overview its pretty flawed, glosses over certain areas, and a bit reductive but it needs to be to cover the entire history. There is a populist bias to it, Zinn was a disillusioned WW2 bomber pilot who joined the anti-Vietnam war movement, but overall the book is fair. It will give you a good overview of the timeline but remember it glosses over the details. If you want to understand specific issues or time periods, you'll have to read books dedicated to them.

i'm a donator to Anna's Archive. if anybody is looking for books/textbooks/scientific papers and don't want to deal with the slow/unstable downloads give me the ISBN and i will have you covered.

I will share a list of Intro/Transition to Proof resources: >Textbooks Journey into Mathematics: An Introduction to Proofs - Joseph J. Rotman Proof, Logic, and Conjecture: The Mathematician's Toolbox - Robert S. Wolf Bridge to Abstract Mathematics: Mathematical Proof and Structures - Ronald P. Morash Alice in Numberland: A Students’ Guide to the Enjoyment of Higher Mathematics - John Baylis, Rod Haggarty >Lecture Notes A Primer for Logic and Proof - Holly P. Hirst and Jeffry L. Hirst http://www.appstate.edu/~hirstjl/primer/hirst.pdf Modicum Mathematicum: A Swath Through The Basic Language Of Abstract Math - Paolo Aluffi https://math.hawaii.edu/~pavel/Aluffi_notes_321_Modicum.pdf Proof, Sets, and Logic - M. Randall Holmes https://randall-holmes.github.io/proofsetslogic.pdf Basic Concepts of Mathematics - Elias Zakon http://www.trillia.com/zakon1.html

>>330 hi math-anon. do you have any book recs for real variables that aren't rudin? it's extremely terse and dry and doesn't really motivate much it covers so i want to supplement it i was thinking of going through apostol or abbot but neither seem to cover lebesgue theory or multivariable functions as far as i know

>>22 Never knew this before: A group of flamingos is called "flamboyance"

>>107 beautiful name, flamboyance :surprise:

Plate tectonics wasn't an accepted idea until the 60s-70s because people were dumber then

>>22 imageboard boards culture's. It's a wonderful learning experience filled with good effort.

Hello /aca/rin~ I'm gonna try fileshelter software once I get back home today!

yeah, i pretty much changed my mind about deleting it. i'll keep it (but delisted for now)

>>312 Nice, hopefully the spam ends and we get more users.

>>312 Thanks. This is a neat little board.

This board is like Mathchan except it's just one board instead of an entire site.

>>277 I wish we knew more about pre-indo european europe

>>278 same. I'm obssesed what language albanians were talking before indo-europeans givong their language to albanians tribes

>>270 Yup, probably I would do the same. Honestly, a lot of people see it as wrong and a bad way of living, but if you already have money, a own house, and comfort... There is nothing wrong on it. Of course I wouldn't be a hikikomori. I would do exercises and go to a café or something. I'm already very used to being alone, but sometimes I imagine having a GF. The problem is that NEET girls are pure psyops

I would study applied metaphysics aka magic been reading the traditionalist school guenon, schuon, coomaraswamy, evola and evola's books on magic seem pretty cool, buddhist magic also seems pretty cool

>>302 Buddhist magic?

>>302 >I would study applied metaphysics aka magic You know it takes alot of beleif and faith for atheism when all new atheists do even on imageboard boards is regurgitate what their group or favorite atheist says.

>>268 >what would you dedicate your life to studying? why does it fascinate you? Difficult question for me. I believe I'd like to just study anything like philosophy, mathematics, religion and new atheism (even if it's shallow minded anyways) ect. It would just be fun to play video games I suppose and programming if money wasn't a problem or really any academic field.