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u/cosmologicalanomaly · 1 pointr/cringepics

Sounds like you are about 4 years behind me (Future physics PhD candidate). Glad to know you have discovered Dover books, they really are great and so cheap. It also sounds like you know what you're doing so good job, keep at it and you might make a good case for graduate school (if that's your destination). But I will warn you that upper division mathematics courses are different. I have seen so many people who think they are really great at mathematics up to vector calculus and then get completely shit on by more abstract courses like real analysis, abstract algebra and topology. The reason for this is that it requires more formalism and is very rigorous as far as proofs go. You'll eventually learn that math is all about making sure you have checked every possible condition in order to move on. I think something you will need is mathematical logic before you tackle abstract courses. If you do collect textbooks (like I do) then I would also recommend this textbook. It teaches you how to think like a mathematician and the logic behind proofs. I think a mathematics logic course is essential to students and it's a shame many mathematics students don't go through a formal logic course before they tackle advanced courses. Of course, some don't need it but unless you are brilliant, I would recommend it (Even if you are brilliant it would be a easy read). Just dig deep and focus and good luck with your future work. Mathematics and Physics are two beautiful subjects and it's always great to talk to future mathematicians or physicists(or any aspiring scientist in that case!) and help them get inspired or motivated!

P.S. Funny story, I had a friend who thought it would be funny to make people believe that Euler is pronounce "you-ler" with the argument that Euclid is pronounced "you-clid". It was pretty funny seeing people believe him.

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/cringepics

First sentence

>The “Miracle of Chile” was a term used by Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman

My second sentence

>Pinochet used Friedmans economic policy and absolutely crippled the economy


Wow, who would have thought that the person who was responsible for the training of the Chicago boys, the people behind the new economic plan, would praise his own plan?

Here's some actual reading for you, right off HIS wiki page

>The economic policies espoused by the Chicago Boys and implemented by the junta caused several economic indicators to decline for Chile's lower classes.[42] Wages decreased by 8%.[43] Family allowances in 1989 were 28% of what they had been in 1970 and the budgets for education, health and housing had dropped by over 20% on average[43] The junta relied on the middle class, the oligarchy, huge foreign corporations, and foreign loans to maintain itself.[44] Businesses recovered most of their lost industrial and agricultural holdings, for the junta returned properties to original owners who had lost them during expropriations, and sold other industries expropriated by Allende's Popular Unity government to private buyers. This period saw the expansion of business and widespread speculation.
Financial conglomerates became major beneficiaries of the liberalized economy and the flood of foreign bank loans. Large foreign banks reinstated the credit cycle, as the Junta saw that the basic state obligations, such as resuming payment of principal and interest installments, were honored. International lending organizations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Inter-American Development Bank lent vast sums anew.[43] Many foreign multinational corporations such as International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT), Dow Chemical, and Firestone, all expropriated by Allende, returned to Chile.[43] Pinochet's policies eventually led to substantial GDP growth, in contrast to the negative growth seen in the early years of his administration. Foreign debt also grew substantially under Pinochet, rising 300% between 1974 and 1988.

Have some more, about his brutality. You do realise he came to power in a coup and only maintained power through the military government, there was never democracy under him?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_government_of_Chile_(1973%E2%80%9390)

Here's more

http://www.amazon.com/The-Shock-Doctrine-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0312427999

Have some fucking more


>He shut down parliament, suffocated political life, banned trade unions, and made Chile his sultanate. His government disappeared 3,000 opponents, arrested 30,000 (torturing thousands of them) ... Pinochet's name will forever be linked to the Desaparecidos, the Caravan of Death, and the institutionalized torture that took place in the Villa Grimaldi complex.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet#Economic_policy


You don't know fucking anything about pinochet, chile, friedman or the chicago boys. And don't tell me to read when you clearly haven't. You gonna point me to Atlas Shrugged next?

u/NotaManMohanSingh · 5 pointsr/cringepics

Yeah he is a pretty polarizing figure. I recommend the following.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0679759409

Che by Jon Anderson.

And to better understand the politics of that time,

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3218736-u-s-presidents-and-latin-american-interventions

u/twisted_memories · 1 pointr/cringepics

The book is Diana Hacker's "A Pocket Style Manual," 6th Edition. I love this little book and use it for all my papers.

u/divsky · 4 pointsr/cringepics

It's an interesting question and I think for a lot of people they can just take a glance at it and "know". As unscientific as it sounds, it can be more accurate than you think. There's a book called Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman that explains this phenomenon quite well.

u/datsine · 1 pointr/cringepics

$6 Theoretical physics

<3 doverbooks, anyway if you want mathematics + physics that's a good one to intimidate the laity with. Cheap enough that you can lend it out as well.

u/CooterMarie · 16 pointsr/cringepics

>don't ever talk down to me or my family for that matter. It's an email...not rocket science

If you happen to get his name in the gift exchange, I might go with Email for Dummies.

But I'm kind of an asshole.

u/ExCalvinist · 1 pointr/cringepics

Have you read the Allen Carr Easy Way to Quit Smoking? It worked for me. I went from more than a pack a day to nothing in only two attempts. Carr comes on like a con artist, but if you're willing to give it a shot, it breaks the psychological addiction.

u/IHaveSpecialEyes · 1 pointr/cringepics

It's so bad, people are willing to sell it for a fucking cent through the Amazon marketplace.

http://www.amazon.com/Store-Bentley-Little/dp/0451192192

u/cjrobe · 2 pointsr/cringepics

http://www.amazon.com/Name-Dropping-No-nonsense-Everyday-Language/dp/0713675888

Though it may be out of date, it appears to have been published almost 1000 years ago.

u/StartWatch · -2 pointsr/cringepics

Once 30 hits you usually have a "wtf am I doing with my life" moment. I don't know from experience as I'm 22, but I did read a book about it. this one

u/Fey_fox · 12 pointsr/cringepics

Weird is subjective. Everyone is a little 'weird', we all have our picidillies that someone somewhere would find odd. To me some of the weirdest folk I've met are the ones that are obsessed with normalcy.


It's my guess that this particular dude feels very powerless. He's probably alone and has no friends, so he does what a lot of folks do in this situation, they go inside their head and think so much until their hopes, fears, and perceptions of the world and the relationships they have become delusional obsessions. To right the wrongs they feel the world has (or the wrongs done to themselves), many turn to a doctrine or system where they feel like they can gain control. Religion is one example, especially cult like ones with lots of dogma, but it can be anything really. This dude opted to focus on the occult. He's probably read a lot of books, and the photos he's taken indicate he's looking to gain fear and respect via 'shocking images'. The drawings on the ground look like veve imagery, or maybe some crap from the Necronimicon (which was written as a joke btw) but he's definitely not apart of Voudo (voodoo) or any occult group or alternative religion I know of. He may even believe in what he's doing, if so he's not much different than those Appalachian churches that dance with snakes and drink poision, except he's being public. One thing fosho he ain't no Alister Crowley. At least he wrote some decent poetry.

Anywho, shit like this is what happens when people face a lot of rejection and are alone, and they either further isolate, but a clue and grow out of it, or try to become their own brand of cult leader & continue to try to impress people.

… still though, just a guess


Source: I know of a lot of weird crap